Anna María 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

  • 4156 FLB, by appointment

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, Ph.D. in Linguistics
  • Université de Grenoble III, France, Licence de Linguistique
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Bachiller

Distinctions / Awards

  • LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2001-2002

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Courses

  • Reading Group: Dynamics of Language Variation and Change
  • Spanish Morphology
  • Hispanic Sociolinguistics
  • Contact Linguistics Seminar
  • Dynamics of Language Variation and Change Seminar
  • Grammaticalization Seminar
  • Oral Varieties of Spanish
  • 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.

Book Contributions

  • Escobar, Anna María. "“Chapter 24: Bilingualism in Latin America”." The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Ed. Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie. Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. 725-744.
  • Escobar, Anna María, María del Puy Ciriza, and Claudia Holguín-Mendoza. "“Capítulo 11 - Lengua e identidad”." Fundamentos y modelos del estudio pragmático y sociopragmático del español. Comp. Mercedes Niño-Murcia. Ed. Susana de los Heros. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown U Press, 2012.
  • Escobar, Anna María. "“Chapter 4: Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages”." The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics. Ed. José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, and Erin O'Rourke. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 65-88.
  • Escobar, Anna María. "“Chapter 16 - Spanish in contact with Quechua”." The Handbook of Spanish Sociolinguistics. Ed. Manuel Díaz-Campos. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 323-352.
  • Escobar, Anna María. "“Dinámica sociolingüística y vitalidad etnolingüística: quechua y aimara peruanos en el siglo XXI”." Estudios en lenguas andinas y amazónicas. Homenaje a Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino. Ed. Wilem F. Adelaar, Pilar Valenzuela, and Roberto Zariquiey. Lima, Peru: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2011. 125-145.

Edited Books

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

Journal Articles

  • Escobar, Anna María. "“Revisiting the Spanish Perfect: Semantic analysis of Andean Colonial Documents”." Lingua 122.5 (2012): 470–480.

Editorial Work

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