R. Mata
Assistant Professor, Advisor to Spanish majors with a Teaching Endorsement (secondary education) and BAE Spanish Elementary Education.
Office
Location
MH 218C
Hours
Fall 2022.
In person: Generally 30 mins before and after my SPAN 314 and LING 402 courses.
Zoom/Teams: Contact me for a virtual appointment.
Current Courses
The Structure of Spanish.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
Pragmatics: Discourse Markers.
Spanish Linguistics.
Morphosyntax of Romance Languages.
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)