Peer-reviewed Articles

 

2013. Information structure inside Spanish TPs. New directions in Hispanic Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. In print.

2013. Conversational and prosodic patterns in Spanish requests. International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS).

2011. Syntactic variation in Colombian Spanish: The case of the Focalizing ser (FS) structure. Proceedings of the 39th LSRL Conference. John Benjamins.

2009. Some syntactic considerations regarding the Focalizing ser (‘to be’) construction in Colombian Spanish. 2008 WECOL Proceedings. University of California. Davis, CA.

2009. Preposed focused objects in Spanish. TROPOS. Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI.

2008. Periphrastic and morphological future forms in Bogotá Spanish: A preliminary sociolinguistics study of upper class speakers. Indiana University Linguistics Club (IULC) Working Papers Online: 08-03. 1-22.

2002. Fundamento teórico para una investigación semiótica del discurso producido por los jóvenes universitarios de Bucaramanga acerca del cuerpo tatuado. Bucaramanga: Revista UIS Humanidades. 71-88.

 

Book

 

2013. Focalizing ser (‘to be’) in Colombian Spanish.  An empirical study of a dialectally-marked syntactic phenomenon in

           Spanish. Lambert Academic Publishing.

 

Book chapter

 

2012. On the syntax of the Focalizing Ser (‘to be’) structure in the Spanish of Bucaramanga. Linguistic Studies in Colombian            varieties of Spanish. File-Muriel, R. and Orozco, R (Eds.).

 

Under review

 

The M word: Face and politeness in Colombian Spanish. Dialectologia. Submitted: September 2012.

Evolución lingüística y socio-cultural: el caso de “marica”. Revista DiSignis. Bogotá, Colombia. Submitted: October 2011.

Consideraciones teóricas acerca de la estructura “ser focalizador” en el español colombiano. Revista S. Masters Program in Semiology, Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga, Colombia. Submitted: August 2011.

The Spanish imperfect-preterit relation and meaning change:  A study of six common Spanish verbs. Revista Idiomas UIS. Language Department, Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga, Colombia. Submitted: January 2011.

 

In preparation

 

D&iactueaz-Campos, M. A., Chappetto, E., McNulty, E., & Méndez Vallejo, D.C. (in preparation). Frequency and the spreading of sociolinguistic variation: A usage-based study of the pluralization of “haber” in Spanish.

 

Editions

 

De Jong, K. & Méndez Vallejo, D.C. (eds). (2007). IULC Working Papers Online. Vol. 7. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. 

Kapatsinski, V., Méndez Vallejo, D.C., Yoon, J. & Yoshida, K. (Assoc. eds). (2006).  IULC Working Papers Online. Vol. 6. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.

Chapetto, E., José, B., Méndez Vallejo, D.C., Riordan, B. & Taylor, J. (Assoc. eds). (2005). IULC Working Papers Online. Vol. 5. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.

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