R. Mata, PhD

Assistant Professor , Major Advisor (Spanish with a Teaching Endorsement & BAE Spanish Elementary Education.

Office

Location

MH 218C

Hours

Fall 2023.
On leave.

Contact

Email

matar@wwu.edu

Phone

360-650-3927

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) 

Current Courses

The Structure of Spanish.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
Pragmatics: Discourse Markers.
Spanish Linguistics.
Morphosyntax of Romance Languages.
Linguistic Analysis.
Language and Society.
Spanish for Heritage Learners.