R. Mata, PhD
Assistant Professor , Major Advisor (Spanish with a Teaching Endorsement & BAE Spanish Elementary Education.
Office
Location
MH 218C
Hours
Spring 2024
• 9.30 - 10.00 AM Tue & Thu: 30 minutes before class in Miller Hall 218-C.
• 12.00 - 1.00 PM Tue & Thu: 1 hr after class at the Viking Union 567.
• By appointment.
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.