R. Mata
Assistant Professor , Major Advisor (Spanish with a Teaching Endorsement & BAE Spanish Elementary Education.
Office
Location
MH 218C
Hours
Winter 2023.
In person: Generally 30 mins before and after my SPAN 301 and LING 204 courses.
Zoom/Teams: Contact me for a virtual appointment.
Current Courses
LING 204 Language and Society
SPAN 301 Spanish for Heritage Learners.
The Structure of Spanish.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
Pragmatics: Discourse Markers.
Spanish Linguistics.
Morphosyntax of Romance Languages.
Linguistic Analysis.
About
Education
B.A., University of Texas at El Paso
M.F.A., University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ph.D. & M.A., University of California San Diego
Research and teaching interests
Sociolinguistics. Romance languages. Morphosyntax. Spanish linguistics. Language contact. Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border area. Morpho-syntactic properties of Spanish (such as subjunctive) that may be vulnerable to language contact. Discourse-pragmatics (discourse markers)