Peer-reviewed participation

 

October, 2013. Focus on the dialects: The syntactic variation of focus marking in Caribbean Spanish. Poster presentation with Manuel Delicado Cantero and Maria Carmen Parafita Couto. 2013 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Ottawa, Canada.

October, 2013. TP-internal focus: a view from two varieties of Spanish. Poster presentation with Jennifer Giuffrida. 2013 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Ottawa, Canada.

February, 2012. Information structure inside Spanish TPs. XXVIII Biennial Louisiana Conference Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.

August, 2011. “Marica, hágame un favor”: Aspectos socio-culturales en el habla de jóvenes bumanguesas. Congreso de Colombianistas. Bucaramanga, Colombia.

October, 2010. “Quiubo marica”: The new trendy form of address in Colombian Spanish. Hispanic Linguistic Sympsium. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.

February, 2010. “Yo soy es de Bogotá”: The case of the Focalizing ser in Colombian Spanish. XXVII Biennial Louisiana Conference Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.

March, 2009. Syntactic variation in Colombian Spanish: The case of the “Focalizing ser (FS)” structure. 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 39). University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.

November, 2008. Some syntactic considerations regarding the Focalizing ser (‘to be’) structure in Colombian Spanish. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). University of California. Davis, CA.

October, 2008. TP-internal focus: The case of the focalizing ser (‘to be’) construction in Colombian Spanish. 38^th Michigan Linguistics Society (MLS). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI.

September, 2008. Focalizing ser (‘to be’) structure in Colombian Spanish.  Accepted to be presented in: Syntax of the World’s Languages III (SWL).  Free University of Berlin. Berlin, Germany.

April, 2008. Focalizing ser (FS) structure in Colombian Spanish. A preliminary analysis. Eleventh Annual Ohio State University Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.

October, 2007. Periphrastic and morphological future forms in Bogotá Spanish: A preliminary sociolinguistics study of upper class speakers. Poster presentation. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 36, Philadelphia, PA.

April, 2007. Conversational patterns in requests: the case of young female university students from Bucaramanga, Colombia. First International Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Dialogue Studies. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Texas. Austin, TX.

October, 2005. Frequency and the spreading of sociolinguistic variation: A usage-based study of the pluralization of “haber” in Spanish.  New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34, New York, NY. With Díaz-Campos, M.A., Chappetto, and E., McNulty, E.

 

Invited speaker presentations

 

January, 2011. Focus inside: evidence from the Spanish FS construction. Invited lectura: Tuesday Seminar Series. Department of Linguistics. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Honolulu, HI.

July, 2010. “Ser Focalizador” en el español colombiano. Invited lecture to introduce the “XXVI Congreso Nacional de Lingüística, Literatura y Semiótica”. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

August, 2008. Propuesta teórica para la estructura del “ser focalizador” en el español colombiano. Invited lecture: Lingüística IV (Fourth level Undergraduate Linguistics), taught by Dr. José Horacio Rosales Cueva. Language Department. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

 

Conference Presentations