“A Diachronic Study of the Spanish Perfect(ive): Frequency of Use and Language Change”. Dissertation Director: Rena Torres-Cacoullos
Grammaticalization, Morphology and Syntax, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
August 2007. A Diachronic Study of the Spanish Perfect(ive): Frequency of Use and Language Change. 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Wokshop on Spanish Historical Linguistics and Dialectology. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
November 2006. The Role of Frequency in L2 Spanish Speakers’ Processing of Input. The High Desert Linguistics Society’s 7th Linguistics Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (With Jenny Dumont)
November 2005. A Diachronic Study of the Spanish Perfect(ive). Hispanic Linguistic Symposium and the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
April 2005. Translating Indigenous Comunalidad into Action Research and Academic Texts. Fieldwork in Latin America and the Borderlands: Challenges and Opportunities, Joint NMSU-UNM Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. (With Lois Meyer and Earl Brown)
September 2004. Speaker Gender and Narrative Style in El Salvadoran Testimonios. A Linguistic Gumbo: Language Variation, Language Contact and Language Change: Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XXXIII. New Orleans, Louisiana.
