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
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.