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
Contact Information
- Address: Spanish Il & Port
4080 Flb
707 S Mathews
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801 - Telephone: (217)333-8277
- Email: aescobar@illinois.edu
- Visit Website
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
- Escobar, Anna María. Contacto social y lingüístico: El español en contacto con el quechua en el Perú. . Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2000.
- Los bilingües y el castellano en el Perú. . Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1990.
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.