Expertise

Specializations

  • Contact Linguistics
  • Pidgins and Creoles
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Lexical Semantics
  • Functional Syntax
  • Morphology

Current research projects

  • The origin and evolution of Daman Creole Portuguese
  • Creoles and typology
  • Barranquenho: a Spanish-Portuguese language contact variety of Barrancos, Portuga

 

Past Affiliations

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Dhar India Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
European Studies, Portuguese, Chicano/a Studies, Spanish, Linguistics
Degrees
PhD, University of Washington, 1985
MA, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1979