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Francisco Antonio Ocampo
University of Minnesota
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
203C Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-625-5822
focampo@umn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
1989 Ph.D. University of Southern California, Hispanic Linguistics.
1982 M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, Linguistics.
1975 Profesor en Letras. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
1971 Diplôme d' Aptitude à l' Enseignement du Français par les Méthodes
Audio-Visuelles. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud. Centre de
Recherche et d'Etude pour la Diffusion du Français.
1967 Diplôme Supérieur d' Etudes Françaises Modernes. Ecole Pratique de
Langue Française, Alliance Française de Paris.
1966 Lower Certificate in English. University of Cambridge. Local
Examinations Syndicate.
Publications
Edited books
2007 Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas internacionales. Hispanic Issues On Line 2.
Co-Edition with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Online_2007.html
2006 Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on our Disciplines. Hispanic Issues On
Line 1. Co-Edition with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/hispanic-issuesonline/hiol-main.htm
Articles and book chapters
Forthcoming. La discursivización de las formas verbales viste, vio en español
rioplatense. Perspectivas teóricas y experimentales sobre el español de la
Argentina, ed. by Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto, Canada), and
Celeste Rodríguez Louro (University of Melbourne, Australia). Iberoamericana
Verbuert.
Forthcoming. No, pero siguen las supersticiones. Sí, las supersticiones siguen. El
orden de palabras en rioplatense: factores cognitivos, sintácticos y
pragmáticos. Perspectivas teóricas y experimentales sobre el español de la
Argentina, ed. by Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto, Canada), and
Celeste Rodríguez Louro (University of Melbourne, Australia). Iberoamericana
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2013. El humor desmesurado en los Viajes Morrocotudos de Pérez Zúñiga: un
análisis discursivo de la función lúdica de la lengua. To be published online on
a volume edited by Laura Areias, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de
Letras, Portugal. In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo.
2013 What makes a fummy story funny: Conversational narratives in spoken
Rioplatense Spanish. To be published online on a volume edited by Laura
Areias, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Portugal.
2011 Si el tipo te invitó es porque, que sé yo, le gustará estar con vos. El proceso de
discursivización de la expresión qué sé yo en Rioplatense (Documento 367).
In: Documentos para el XVI Congreso Internacional de la ALFAL, ed. by Ana
María Cestero, Isabel Molina & Florentino Paredes. Alcalá de Henares:
Universidad de Alcalá, España, junio 6-9 2011. In collaboration with Alicia
Ocampo.
2010 The place of conversational data in Spanish word order: Topic, focus, and word
order. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Volume 3, Issue 2, 533-
543..
2009 Mirá: From verb to discourse particle in Rioplatense Spanish. Selected
Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Joseph
Collentine, Maryellen García, Barbara Lafford, and Francisco Marcos Marín
Cascadilla Press Proceedings Project..
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/11/paper2218.pdf.
2009 El orden de palabras en el español hablado. La construcción Sujeto Verbo
Objeto Directo. La lingüística como reto epistemológico y como acción Social.
Estudios dedicados al Profesor Ángel López García con ocasión de su
sexagésimo aniversario, Volumen 1, ed. by Montserrar Veyrat Rigat and
Enrique Serra Alegre. 501-511 Madrid: Arco Libros..
2009 Humor y género: la transmisión de la ideología paternalista a través del humor
hispano. Ironizar, parodiar, satirizar. Estudios sobre el humor y la risa en la
lengua, la literatura y la cultura, ed. by Eduardo Parrilla Sotomayor. 103-118.
Monterrey (México): Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ediciones Eón. In
Collaboration with Alicia M. Ocampo.
2008 La evolución de la forma léxica viste de verbo a partícula discursiva en
castellano rioplatense. Un proceso de discursivización. Actas del XV Congreso
Internacional de ALFAL. Montevideo, Uruguay, August 18-21, 2008,
Document 953..
2008 El orden de palabras en construcciones con una cópula, un adjetivo y un
adverbio en español Rioplatense. Lingüística 20 7-24..
2007 Español en contacto con Quechua. Variación en el orden de palabras en
construcciones con adverbios en hablantes bilingües quechua-español. Signo &
Seña 16. Interculturalidad y Lengua, ed. by Anita Herzferl and Angelita
Martínez. Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad
de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In collaboration with Carol A. Klee.
2007 Introducción. Co-Authored with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo. In
Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas internacionales. Hispanic Issues On Line 2.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Online_2007.html

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2007 Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature. In collaboration
with Ana Forcinito. In Debates, Hispanic Issues on Line.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Debates_Main.html
2006 La evolución de bueno de adjetivo a partícula discursiva. Un proceso de
discursivización. Oralia 9. Análisis del discurso oral. Ed. Arco Libros, 231-
257.
2006 Introduction: The State of Hispanic Linguistics in the American University.
Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on our Disciplines. Ed. by Luis
Estudillo, Francisco Ocampo, and Nicholas Spadaccini.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/hispanic-issuesonline/hispanic%20issues%20online-1.htm
2006 Movement towards discourse is not grammaticalization: The evolution of claro
from adjective to discourse particle in spoken Spanish. Selected Proceedings of
the 9 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida
Jacqueline Toribio. Cascadilla Press Proceedings Project.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/9/paper1388.pdf
2005 Variación en el orden de palabras: construcciones con un verbo intransitivo, un
sujeto y un adverbio. Signo & Seña. Variación, ed. by Angelita Martínez.
13.255-270. Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005 El orden de palabras en español hablado: Construcciones con un verbo cópula,
un sintagma nominal sujeto y un sintagma nominal complemento. Actas del
XIV Congreso Internacional de ALFAL. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo
León, Monterrey, México.
2005 La incidencia de factores pragmáticos, sintácticos y prosódicos en la variación
del orden de palabras en construcciones con un verbo transitivo, un sujeto y un
adverbio. Actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de
Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, Santiago de Chile.
2005 The Word Order of Constructions with an Intransitive Verb, a Subject, and an
Adverb in Spoken Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 7 th Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press, 142-157.
2005 Word order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct
object, and an adverb. The interaction of syntactic, cognitive, pragmatic, and
prosodic features. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic
Analysis, ed. by Robert Kirsner, Ellen Contini-Morava, and Betsy Rodriguez-
Bachiller. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 341-360.
2004 De ‘el asunto está bueno’ a ‘bueno, el asunto está’. El uso del adjetivo
calificativo bueno como partícula discursiva. Actas del XIII Congreso
Internacional de ALFAL, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1215-1224.
2003 On the notion of focus in Spoken Spanish: An empirical approach. Theory,
Practice and Acquisition, ed. by Paula Kempchinsky and Carlos Eduardo
Piñeros, 207-226. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003 The expression of topic in spoken Spanish. An empirical study. A
RomancePerspective on Language Knowledge and Use, ed. by Rafael Núñez-
Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. 195-208.
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2002 The word order of constructions with ser and estar, a subject NP and an
adjective in spoken Spanish. Structure, Meaning, and Acquisition in Spanish.
Proceedings of the 4 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville,
MA:Cascadilla Press, 212-229..
2001 Word order variation in constructions with a verb and two adverbs in spoken
Spanish. Adverbial Modification, ed. by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bob de Jonge,
Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Arie Molendijk. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 13-29.
2000 Un hito en el discurso: significado y mensajes de ya. Evidencia del español
rioplatense. In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo. Estudio Analítico del Signo
lingüístico. Teoría y descripción, ed. by Bob de Jonge. Foro Hispánico, 17. 83-
94. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
1999 Condicionales con SI y construcciones alternativas en español. Actas del VIII
Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de
América Latina.
1998 PPs without Ps in spoken Rioplatense Spanish. Theoretical Analyses on
Romance Languages, ed. by José Lema and Esthela Treviño. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. 317-327
1996 El orden de palabras en construcciones con un verbo y un adverbio en el
español hablado del Río de la Plata. Actas del X Congreso de la Asociación de
Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, ed. by María Arjona Iglesias et.
al. México: Universidad Autónoma de México, 606-614.
1995 Pragmatic factors on word order: constructions with a verb and an adverb in
spoken Spanish. Probus 7, 1-20.
1995 Spanish OV/VO word order variation in Spanish/Quechua bilingual speakers.
Written in collaboration with Carol Klee. Spanish in four continents, ed. by
Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Georgetown University Press, 71-82.
1995 The word order of two-constituent constructions in Spoken Spanish. Word
Order in Discourse, ed. by Pamela Downing and Michael Noonan. John
Benjamins. 429-51.
1995 The word order of constructions with a verb, a subject, and a direct object in
spoken Spanish. Contemporary research in Romance linguistics, ed. by Jon
Amastae, Grant Goodall, Mario Montalbetti, and Marianne Phinney. John
Benjamins, 291-30.
1993 The introduction of new referents in French and Spanish discourse: one
constraint, two strategies. Linguistic perspectives on the Romance Languages.
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103.ed. by William Ashby, Marianne
Mithun, Giorgio Perissinotto, and Eduardo Raposo. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, 351-362.
1992 The expression of focus of contrast, focal referent, and contrary to expectation
in spoken French and Spanish. Lynx. Studies in Contrastive Linguistics. Vol. 2,
7-26.
1991 Word order in constructions with a subject, a verb, and a PP in spoken
Rioplatense Spanish. Hispania, 74.2.409-16.
1990 The pragmatics of word order in constructions with a verb and a subject.
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1990 The acquisition of the pragmatics of word order variation in spoken Spanish
by native speakers of English. Proceedings of the 10th SLRF, ed. by Hartmut
Burmeister. University of Oregon, American Language Institute. 523-40.
1989 El subjuntivo en tres generaciones de hablantes bilingües. Spanish in the
United States: Sociolinguistic Issues, ed. by John Bergen. Washington DC:
Georgetown University Press. 39-43.
1987 The Spanish Present Perfect. Ariel 4.48-53
1985 Pronouns, Noun Phrases and Demonstratives in Shelknam. SCOPIL 10.125-42
Presentation of papers, lectures.
2012
El humor desmesurado en los Viajes Morrocotudos de Pérez Zúñiga. Un análisis
discursivo de la función lúdica de la lengua. XIII Annual Conference of the
International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies, October 17-19 Universidade
de Lisboa, Portugal. In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo.
El referente y el tópico en castellano rioplatense. Presentation-discussion of a book
in progress. I Congreso de la Delegación Argentina de la ALFAL y V Jornadas
Internacionales de Investigación en Filología Hispánica. Universidad de La Plata,
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, La Plata, Argentina, 21-23 de
marzo 2012.
2011
Sintaxis del español: factores cognitivos y pragmáticos en el tópico, foco y orden de
palabras. Invited Lectures (2 lectures, 3 hours each). XVI Congreso Internacional de
ALFAL, june 6-9 2011, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, España. INVIED
Si el tipo te invitó es porque, que sé yo, le gustará estar con vos. El proceso de
discursivización de la expresión qué sé yo en Rioplatense. XVI Congreso
Internacional de ALFAL, june 6-9 2011, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, España.
(In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo).
2010
El nacimiento de una partícula discursiva. El caso de claro. Lecture. Seminário de
Estudos Linguísticos na America Latina. Programa de Pos-Graduação e Letras de
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Linguística da universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, November 8, 2010.
2009
Evidential si in spoken Spanish. Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2009, Universidad
de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, October 21-24, 2009.
2008
La evolución de la forma léxica viste de verbo a partícula discursiva en castellano
rioplatense. Un proceso de discursivización. XV Congreso Internacional de ALFAL.
Montevideo, Uruguay, August 18-21, 2008.
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A diachronic process that gives birth to a Spanish discourse particle: The case of
claro. American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2008. Bringham Young
University, March 13-15.
2007
Factors that affect word order variation in spoken Spanish: An empirical study.
Lecture. University of Toronto, November 22, 2007.
Mirá: From verb to discourse particle in Rioplatense Spanish. Hispanic Linguistic
Symposium 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio. November 1-4, 2007.
Roundtable on the Teaching of the History of the Spanish Language, 42 nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, May 10-
13, 2007.
The word order of constructions with a copula, an adjective, and an adverb in spoken
Rioplatense Spanish. Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Dialogue Studies. April
19-21, 2007. The University of Texas at Austin.
On the reliability of the question/answer test to elicit focus: Why speakers cannot be
left outside. 9th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of
Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior. February 18-19, 2007. The City
College of New York.
2006
El chiste rioplatense como medio de transmisión de la ideología paternalista. X
Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Internacional para el Estudio del Humor Luso-
Hispano, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, October 4-6,
2006. Monterrey, Mexico. In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo.
2005
Movement towards discourse is not grammaticalization: The evolution of claro from
adjective to discourse particle in spoken Spanish. The Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium, Penn State University, College Station, November 10-13, 2005.
El orden de palabras en español hablado: construcciones con un verbo cópula, un
sintagma nominal sujeto y un sintagma nominal complemento. XIV Congreso
Internacional de ALFAL. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey,
México, 17-21 de octubre, 2005.
2004
What happens with the meaning when a lexical item extends its range? The
development of Spanish bueno from adjective to discourse particle. Eighth .
International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form
and Meaning with Human Behavior. The City College of New York, New York,
New York. February 14-15, 2004.
2003
The Word Order of Constructions with an Intransitive Verb, a Subject, and an
Adverb in Spoken Spanish. 7 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 2003.
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On the notion of focus in spoken Spanish: An empirical approach. 6 th Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium. University of Iowa, Iowa City, October 18-20, 2002.
De ‘el asunto está bueno’ a ‘bueno, el asunto está’. El uso del adjetivo calificativo
bueno como partícula discursiva. XIII Congreso Internacional de ALFAL, San José
de Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, February 18-23 2002.
2001
What makes a funny story funny: Oral conversational narratives in spoken
Rioplatense Spanish. Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society for Luso-
Hispanic Humor Studies. Loyola University, Chicago, September 27-29 2001.
Topic and focus in spoken Spanish. XXXI Linguistics Symposium on Romance
Languages. University of Illinois at Chicago, April 19-22, 2001.
2000
The word order of constructions with ser and estar, a subject np, and an adjective in
spoken Spanish. Fourth Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Indiana University,
Bloomington. November 17-19, 2000.
The humor hidden in tango words. IV Annual Conference of the International Society
for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies, Mc Gill University, Montréal, Canada, 28-30
September 2000.
1999
Word order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct object,
and an adverb. The interaction of syntactic, cognitive, pragmatic, and prosodic
features. Sixth International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction
Between Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior. Rutgers University,
October 9-11, 1999.
La incidencia de factores pragmáticos, sintácticos y prosódicos en la variación del
orden de palabras en construcciones con un verbo transitivo, un sujeto y un adverbio.
XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la
América Latina. Santiago de Chile, 9-14 August, 1999.
Variación en el orden de palabras: construcciones con un verbo intransitivo, un
sujeto y un adverbio. Simposio sobre Gramática y Variación, Congreso
Internacional sobre la Gramática, Teorías. Enseñanza Histórica. Universidad
Nacional de Buenos Aires, 4-7 August, 1999.
1998
Code-switching at predictable places: The case of Spanish-Italian Jokes. Third
Annual Conference of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies,
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada, October 1-3, 1998.
Word order variation in constructions with a verb and two adverbs in spoken
Spanish. Fifth Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Adverbial Modification in the
Romance Languages, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Holland, September 10-12, 1998.
The interaction between discourse, cognition, syntax, pragmatics, and prosody: The
case of word order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a noun
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phrase argument, and an adverb. Eight Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and
Discourse. Madison, Wisconsin, July 29-31, 1998.
1996
El adverbio ya como marcador aspectual discursivo en español Rioplatense. In
collaboration with Alicia Ocampo. XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de
Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, July 22-27, 1996.
Estructura informativa, estructura argumental y orden de palabras en el español
Rioplatense. XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología
de la América Latina, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, July 22-27, 1996.
PPs without Ps in spoken Spanish. XXVI Linguistic symposium on Romance
Languages. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF. March 28-30,
1996.
1995
La correlación de factores sintácticos, cognitivos y pragmáticos en el orden de
palabras del español rioplatense. Instituto de Lingüística, Universidad Nacional de
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 26, 1995.
Argument structure, information flow, grammaticalization, and word order in spoken
Rioplatense Spanish. Preferred Argument Structure: The Next Generation.
University of California Santa Bárbara, May 12-14, 1995.
1994
Spanish in contact with Quechua: word order variation in constructions with adverbs
in the Spanish of Quechua-speaking bilinguals. In collaboration with Carol A. Klee.
Modern Language Association, December 1994, San Diego.
1993
El orden de palabras en construcciones con adverbios en el español hablado del Río
de la Plata. X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de
la América Latina. Veracruz, México, April 11-16, 1993.
1992
The word order of constructions with a verb, a subject, and an object in spoken
Spanish. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXII. University of Texas at
El Paso and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. February 20-23, 1992.
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Spanish OV/VO word order variation in Spanish/Quechua bilingual speakers. (In
collaboration with Carol Klee). 12th Annual Conference on Spanish in the United
States & 1st International Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
USC, Los Angeles, November 7-9, 1991.
The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish. 20th Annual
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Word order in discourse.
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The introduction of new referents in French and Spanish discourse: one constraint,
two strategies. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXI, University of
California Santa Barbara, February 21-24, 1991.
1990
Word order variation in Rioplatense and in first generation East Los Angeles
Spanish: A comparison. El Español en los Estados Unidos XI, University of Illinois
at Chicago, October 11-13, 1990.
V DO / DO V Constructions in Spoken Spanish. AATSP Annual Meeting, Miami,
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The word order of constructions with a verb and an adverb in spoken Spanish.
University of Minnesota, Linguistics Club, May 18, 1990.
The acquisition of the pragmatics of word order variation in spoken Spanish by
native speakers of English. Second Language Research Forum, University of
Oregon, Eugene, March 1-4, 1990.
The pragmatics of word order in constructions with one-valency verbs and a
prepositional phrase. The Eleventh Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages
and Literatures, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February 22-24, 1990.
1988
Word Order in Spoken Spanish: One-Valency verb Constructions. Symposium on
Spanish Linguistics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, November 3-5, 1988.
Word Order in Intransitive Constructions. American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter. Spring Meeting, Mt. San
Antonio College, Walnut, April 16, 1988.
1987
Condicionales con SI y construcciones alternativas en español. VIII Congreso
Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, San
Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, September 8-12, 1987.
1984
Morphological Causatives in Tunisian Arabic. Hispanic Colloquium, Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California, October 16, 1984. NON
1982
The Phonology of Shelknam. (In collaboration with Alicia Ocampo). Niagara
Linguistics Society. 13th Annual Spring Conference, D' Youville College, Buffalo,
April 3, 1982.
Work in progress
Ideology in Humor. Edition in collaboration with Ana Forcinito and Marisa
Kalbermatten.
What discourse markers tell us about semantic change.
Word order in spoken Spanish: syntactic, cognitive, pragmatic, and discourse factors.
A monograph.
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References to my work by scholars
The following publications contain references to my work: (incomplete list)
Alonso. E. 1997. Testing the oral proficiency of bilingual speakers of Spanish
according to ACTFL guidelines. Hispania. 80.2. pp. 328-341.
Ashby, William & Paola Bentivoglio. 2003. Preferred Argument Structure across
time and space: A comparative diachronic analysis of French and Spanish, in:
Preferred Argument Structure. Grammar as architecture for function, ed. by
John Du Bois, Lorraine Kumpf & William Ashby. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Azevedo, Milton. 2009. Literary Linguistics in the Context of a Literature
Department. Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium,
ed. JosephCollentine et al., 1-8. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
http://lingref.com/cpp/hls/11/paper2198.pdf
Blekher, Marina. 1995. “Word Order and Discourse Management in Russian.”
University of Alberta.
Bentivoglio, Paola. 1993. Full NPs in Spoken Spanish: A Discourse Profile, in:
Linguistic perspectives on the Romance Languages. Current Issues in Linguistic
Theory, 103.ed. by William Ashby, Marianne Mithun, Giorgio Perissinotto, and
Eduardo Raposo. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 211-224.
Berrocoso, Solbella. 2009. Word order in academic texts: what difference does it
make? A comparative study between Spanish and English. Application,
Integration and Discovery. Researching Learning & Teaching in the Disciplines.
Eighth Conference of the CLTR, Edge Hill University.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cltr/Events/pdfs/ExtendedAbstractsA-Z.pdf#page=4
Brown, Esther & Javier Rivas. 2011. Subject-verb word order in Spanish
interrogatives: A quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish. Spanish in
Context, 8.1, 23-49.
Bratten, Jennifer Leigh. 2006. Acquisition of pragmatically motivated syntax in L2
French. M.A. Thesis. Athens, Georgia: University of Maryland.
http://athenaeum.libs.uga.edu/bitstream/handle/10724/9199/bratten_jennifer_l_2
00608_ma.pdf?sequence=1
Cacoullos, Rena Torres. 2009. "Variation and grammaticisation." Language
Variation--European Perspectives II: Selected Papers from the 4th International
Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007.
Vol. 5. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/users/r/c/rct11/Resources/Publications/Variation%20an
d%20grammaticisation.Tsiplakou%20et%20al.pdf
Caravedo, Rocío. 1999. Lingüística del Corpus. Cuestiones teórico-metodológicas
aplicadas al español. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
Casielles-Suárez, Eugenia. 2003. On the interaction between syntactic and
information structures in Spanish. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 80.1. pp. 1-20.
Casielles-Suárez, Eugenia. 2003. Left-Dislocated Structures in Spanish. Hispania
86.2, 326-338.
Castillo, Concha. 2002. Sobre la estructura del orden VSO. Revista española de
lingüística, 32.2, 441-474.

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Clancy Clements, J. Ergative patterning in Spanish. 2001. Current Issues in Spanish
Syntax and Semantics. Studies in Generative Grammar 53, ed. by Javier
Gutiérrez-Rexach & Luis Silva-Villar. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, 271-290.
Cortés Rodríguez, Luis. 2002. Los estudios del español hablado entre 1950 y 1999.
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Demonte. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe. pp. 4215-4243.
Editorial Work
Member of the Editorial Board of Hispanic Issues.
Member of the Editorial Board of Oralia. Análisis del discurso oral. Universidad
de Almería. Arco Libros.
From Fall 1992 to Spring 1995, Associate Editor, Hispanic Linguistics.
Professional Experience
1995 to date Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
1989 to 1995 Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
1982-1989. Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Southern California.
1978-1980. Instructor of Spanish Language and Literature. Colegio Nacional de La
Plata, Argentina.
1975-1980. Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de La
Educación, Sección Lenguas Indígenas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1967-1980. Instructor of French. Alliance Française de La Plata, Argentina.
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Organizer, in collaboration with Marisa Kalbermatten and Ana Forcinito of the
XII Annual Conference of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor
Studies, that took place October 21-23, 2010 at the University of Minnesota.
Treasurer, Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina. November
2005-June 2011.
Organizer, in collaboration with Carol Klee, of the 13th Annual Conference on
Spanish in the United States & 2nd. International Conference on Spanish in
Contact with other Languages, that took place in October 22-24, 1992 at the
University of Minnesota.
Vice-Chair, Spanish Linguistics Session, VII Congreso Internacional de ALFAL,
Tucumán, Argentina, September 1987.
Seminar on Semanto-Pragmatics (taught in collaboration with Alicia Ocampo). At
the Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación, Sección Lingüística
Antropológica (Ex-Sección Lenguas Indígenas). Buenos Aires, August 26 -
September 6, 1987.
Field work in La Plata, Argentina, to collect data from spoken Rioplatense
Spanish (in collaboration with Alicia Ocampo). July-August 1986, and September
1987.
Field work in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to collect linguistic data from the last
speaker of Shelknam, a South American Indian Language (in collaboration with
Alicia Ocampo). February-March 1977, and February-March 1980.
Grants and Fellowships (not up to date)
Office of International Education, 2000.
College of Liberal Arts, 2000.
College of Liberal Arts, 1999.
College of Liberal Arts, 1998.
Office of International Education, 1998
Office of International Education, 1996
Office of International Education. 1993
Area Studies. 1993.
Bush Faculty Development Program on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching. 1992-
93.
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United
States' Universities (in collaboration with Carol Klee). 1992.
Office of International Education (in collaboration with Carol Klee). 1992.
Western European Studies Center (in collaboration with Carol Klee). 1992.

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Nominated by the University of Minnesota to apply to the 1992 NEH Summer
Stipends.
Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. 1990.
Grant-in-Aid of Research. 1989-1990.
Del Amo Dissertation Research Grant. 1987-1988.
Professional Membership
Linguistic Society of America.
Columbia School of Linguistics.
Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina.
International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies.
Languages
Spanish (native)
French, English (speaking, reading, and writing knowledge)
Portuguese, Italian, Latin, classical Greek (reading knowledge).
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