R. Mata
Assistant Professor
Office
Location
MH 218C
Hours
Winter 2022.
Email me for a virtual appointment.
In person: Generally before and after my SPAN 314 (Tuesdays) and LING 310 (Thursdays) courses. Email me to arrange.
Current Courses
Spanish Linguistics.
The Structure of Spanish.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
Morphosyntax of Romance Languages.
Spanish Dialectology.
Linguistic Analysis.
Spanish for Heritage Learners.
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
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)