Anna Maria Escobar Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Associate Professor of Linguistics
SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor of LAS Global Studies

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Contact Information

Office Hours

  • W 12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Specializations / Research Interest(s)

Language Variation and Change -- Contact Linguistics and Bilingualism -- Morphology -- Grammaticalization and Semantic Change -- Spanish Sociolinguistics and Dialectology -- Spanish-Quechua contact -- Andean Sociolinguistics -- Spanish Linguistics,

Education

  • State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Université de Grenoble III, France
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Courses

  • Reading Group: Dynamics of Language Variation and Change
  • Spanish Morphology
  • Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • Dynamics of Language Variation and Change Seminar
  • Seminar on Contact Linguistics
  • Oral Varieties of Spanish
  • Seminar on Grammaticalization
  • Spanish in the U.S.
  • Structure of Spanish
  • Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
  • Practical Review of Spanish Grammar

Publications

Books

Chapter Books

  • Hualde, José Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea, Anna María Escobar, and Catherine Travis. Introducción a la lingüística Hispánica (2nd ed., 8 chapters). Chapter Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Hualde, José Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea, and Anna María Escobar. Introducción a la lingüística Hispánica (1st ed., 6 chapters). Chapter Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Edited Books

  • Escobar, Anna M., and Wolfgang Wölck. Contacto lingüístico y la emergencia de variantes y variedades lingüísticas. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2009.