Rena Torres Cacoullos

Rena Torres Cacoullos is an American linguist[1] known for her work on language variation and change, as well as her research on processes of grammaticalization and the linguistic outcomes of language contact.[2] She is currently Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University.[3]

Education and research

Torres Cacoullos earned her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.[4] She was Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures / Linguistics, University of Florida in 1999-2000. Between 2000-2009 she was affiliated with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of New Mexico. Since 2009 Torres Cacoullos has been teaching at the Program in Linguistics at the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at Pennsylvania State University. She is a leading expert on New Mexican Spanish and has developed a corpus of code-switched speech in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community with collaborator Catherine E. Travis.[5]

She has served as an editor of Language Variation and Change since 2007.[6]

Honors

In 2020, Torres Cacoullos was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[7]

Selected publications

Volumes authored

Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact. A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.

Other publications

A complete list of Torres Cacoullos' published book chapters, papers, and proceedings publications can be found in her curriculum vitae, located on her webpage.

References

  1. ^ Gutierrez-Rexach, J (2003). "Review of Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact. A Study of Spanish Progressive-Constructions". Studies in Language. John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/sl.27.1.14gut.
  2. ^ "Rene Torres Cacoullos - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  3. ^ "Rena Torres Cacoullos – Center for Language Science". Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  4. ^ "alumni - UNM, Hispanic Linguistics". www.unm.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  5. ^ Nguyen, Li (2019). "Review : Torres Cacoullos and Travis. 2018. Bilingualism in the Community : Code-switching and Grammars in Contact . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press". Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. 14 (2): 265–269. doi:10.3366/cor.2019.0171. ISSN 1749-5032. S2CID 201901102.
  6. ^ "Editorial board - Language Variation and Change". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  7. ^ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.

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