Hispanic and Galician Linguistics

Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposia at UWM

Galician Linguistics

7th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

The 7th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (LHLS7) was held on November 8-9, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Symposium included presentations on different fields of descriptive, applied, social and theoretical linguistics from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Language contact issues were highlighted in this event.

Venue:
Friday November 8th: Mitchell Hall #361
Saturday November 9th: Curtin Hall #175

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Javier Rivas (University of Colorado, Boulder): A usage-based approach to inflected infinitives: a contrastive analysis of Galician and Portuguese
Dr. Sonia Barnes (Marquette University): Awareness and salience in language contact: the case of Asturian Spanish

Sponsors

Office of Research
Graduate School
College of Letters and Science
Center for International Education
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Master of Arts in Language, Literature and Translation

Organizing Committee

Isabel Méndez-Santalla (UW-Milwaukee)
Gabriel Rei-Doval, co-chair (UW-Milwaukee)
Fernando Tejedo, co-chair (UW-Madison)
Saja Albuarabi (UW-Milwaukee)
Fabiana Azurmendi (UW-Milwaukee)
José Raúl González Ruiz (UW-Milwaukee)

6th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

The 6th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (LHLS6) was held on September 29-30, 2017 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Symposium included presentations on different fields of descriptive, applied, social and theoretical linguistics from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Language contact issues were highlighted in this event.

Venue: UW-Milwaukee
Curtin Hall, room 175
3243 N. Downer Avenue. Milwaukee WI 53211
September 29-30, 2017

Keynote speakers

Dr. Xosé Luís Regueira

Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, he teaches in the School of Philology and is a Research Scholar in the Instituto da Lingua Galega, University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). He holds a B.A. in Romance Philology (1982) and a Ph.D. (1989) at USC.  His research interests include phonetics and phonology, language variation, contact and standardization, and historiography of linguistics. He has taken part in multiple research projects in these fields, and is PI in the Cambio lingüístico no galego actual project. The projects he has participated in and/or directed include: Cambio lingüístico no galego actual, Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega (CORILGA), Dicionario de pronuncia da lingua galega, Contacto e cambio lingüístico en galego, Gramática da lingua galega, and Estudo perceptivo da variación prosódica dialectal do galego. He has been general editor of the journal Cadernos de Lingua since 1990, as well as a permanent member of the Real Academia Galega since 2012.

Dr. Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar

Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Western Oregon University and current Chair of the Modern Languages Department. She received her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 and she graduated with two BA in Spanish Philology and Italian Philology from the University of Salamanca.  Her research focuses on socio-historical approach to language especially on how social and cultural factor combine to influence lexical changes. Among her publications are Algunas cuestiones sobre la pérdida de arabismos (Romance Philology, 2011), Attitudes Toward Lexical Arabisms in 16th Century Spanish Texts (John Benjamins, 2016) and Obras completas by José Ortega y Gasset (Taurus, 2009). She has worked as an assistant researcher for the Real Academia Española (RAE) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for the New Historical Dictionary of Spanish (Nuevo Diccionario Histórico del Español) and Fundación Ortega y Gasset.

Organizing Committee

Ana María Casas Olcoz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Jesús Alberto García Bonilla, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Mark Hanson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Isabel Méndez Santalla, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Gabriel Rei-Doval, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Fernando Tejedo, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison

Sponsors

UWM Office of Research
UWM Graduate School
UWM Humanities
UWM Center for International Education
UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
UWM Master of Arts in Language, Literature, and Translation
UWM Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Xunta de Galicia: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria

4th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Overview

The 4th UWM Symposium on Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics (SLHL 4) was held on Saturday, November 21, 2015 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Symposium included presentations on different fields of descriptive, applied or theoretical linguistics from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Language contact issues were highlighted in this event.

Venue: UWM Curtin Hall, 175
3243 N. Downer Avenue. Milwaukee WI 53211
9:00am – 6:30pm

More information here

Keynote speaker
Rosario Álvarez (Instituto da Lingua Galega, University of Santiago de Compostela)

Distinguished Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology. Instructor in the School of Philology and ILG scholar at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). B.A. in Romance Philology (1974) and Ph.D. (1980), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

Rosario Alvarez’s research focuses on language variation (primarily geographical) and change in Galician. It aims to achieve the best possible description of modern Galician and Portuguese-Galician contrastive grammar (through comparison with both European and Brazilian Portuguese). She is active in the study and editing of Medieval Galician texts, with a view to gaining greater insight into diachronic and geographical development on the road towards contemporary Galician.

She has been an ab initio member of the team developing the Atlas Lingüístico Galego. She is a co-author of two Galician grammars, with Monteagudo / Regueira (1986) and Xove (2002), and the chief researcher of the team writing the grammar of the Real Academia Galega. She leads the Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués project, which involves teams in Galicia, Portugal and Brazil. She is also general editor of the journal Estudos de Lingüística Galega.

Rosario Alvarez has been Vice-Chancellor of Teaching Staff (1990-94) at USC, Chair of the Department of Galician Philology (1995-99) and the Instituto da Lingua Galega (2005-13). She is a permanent member of the Real Academia Galega (2003), directs the Grammar Seminar and is on its board as Treasurer (2013). She is the Vice-President of the Consello da Cultura Galega (2010) and coordinator of its Language, Literature and Communication section, to which she has belonged since it was established.

Organizing Committee

Iria Basoa Calvo, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Sergio López Ramos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Isabel Méndez Santalla, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Julia Montemuíño, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Ruth Otero Carballa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Leticia de la Paz de Dios, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Gabriel Rei-Doval, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
Fernando Tejedo, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison

Sponsors

Major funding for this event were provided by:
Xunta de Galicia: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria
UWM Office of Research
UWM Graduate School
UWM Humanities (Year of the Humanities)

Additional funds were provided by:
UWM Department of Linguistics
UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
UWM Department of Spanish and Portuguese

2nd UWM Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics

Andrés Enrique-Arias Interview

This interview with Dr. Enrique-Arias was carried out at UW-Milwaukee by Ms. Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras and Dr. Vera Vázquez-López during the 2nd UWM Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics (November 23, 2013). You will hear Dr. Enrique Arias reflecting on a number of topics, such as the problems and benefits of corpus linguistics or the impact of language contact on linguistic change. The interview comes to an end with some encouraging words by Dr. Enrique Arias to graduate students.

Dr. Andrés Enrique-Arias obtained his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of History of the Spanish Language at the University of Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain). His main research interests are corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics, among others. Since 2004, he leads the project Biblia Medieval, a corpus of medieval biblical translations. Dr. Enrique Arias has authored more than fifty publications, some of which are published in journals such as Lingüística, Studies in Language, Romance Philology or Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

Overview

The 2nd UWM Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics (II SLHL) was held on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Symposium included presentations on different fields of descriptive, applied or theoretical linguistics from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Language contact issues were highlighted in this event.

20-minute papers were delivered in either Portuguese, Spanish or English in this one-day event.

Keynote Speaker

Andrés Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain

Plenary Lecture, Contact induced change in the Spanish of Mallorca: insights from a historical perspective.

Andrés Enrique-Arias holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA). Currently he is an Associate Professor of Spanish historical linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain.

His research focuses on Spanish historical morphosyntax, particularly phenomena related to clitics and the expression of possession, from a variety of viewpoints and methodologies such as the functional-typological framework, comparative pan-Romance analyses, or quantitative studies from variationist sociolinguistics. He has also published several articles on methodological issues related to the study of linguistic variation through historical texts.

He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the web-based Biblia Medieval project. Connected to this project, he has devoted considerable attention to philological aspects of the medieval translations of the Bible into Spanish and has edited important biblical manuscripts such as Escorial I.i.6 and Real Academia de la Historia ms. 87. Currently he is working on a critical edition of the Bible translation and commentary by Moisés Arragel.

Andrés Enrique Arias has published over fifty articles and book chapters in venues such as Lingüística, Studies in Language, Romance Philology, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

Organizing Committee

  • Pilar Fernández-Pedraza, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
  • Gabriel Rei-Doval, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
  • Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
  • Mario Sánchez-Gumiel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
  • Ruth Solarte, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee
  • Fernando Tejedo, Co-chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison
  • Vera Vázquez-López, Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee

Previous Symposia

Schedule

November 23, 2013

Session Time
Registration and Coffee 8:30-9:00am

Welcome

  • Welcome, Dean of the UWM Graduate School, Dean of College of Letters & Science
 9:00-9:20

Sonia Barnes, Marquette University

  • “Gender-based variation in urban Asturian Spanish”
 9:20-9:40

Iria Basoa Calvo, UW-Milwaukee

  • “La presencia del gallego en las redes sociales y su uso entre los jóvenes de Ferrolterra”
 9:45-10:05

Sabela Juan Taborda, UW-Milwaukee

  • “Una aproximación a la situación actual del gallego en la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia a través de datos extraídos del Instituto Galego de Estatística”
 10:10-10:30
Discussion 10:30-10:45
Coffee Break 10:45-11:00

Brianna Butera, UW-Madison

  • “Los orígenes de la «lenición consonántica» en el romance occidental”
 11:00-11:20

Marcos Pires, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)

  • “Locative inversion and agreement with non-argumental phrases in Portuguese”
 11:25-11:45

Erwin Lares, UW-Madison

  • “When diminutives do not express diminution”
 11:50-12:10
Discussion 12:10-12:25

Andrés Enrique-Arias, Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain)

  • “Contact induced change in the Spanish of Mallorca: insights from a historical perspective”
 12:30-13:30
Lunch 13:30-14:50

Gustavo Freire, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) / UW-Milwaukee

  • “Sobre a aquisição de verbos perceptivos e causativos e a teoria da mente”
 15:00-15:20

David Korfhagen, UW-Madison

  • “Socio-cognitive factors in the semantic development of the Spanish verb ahorrar ‘to free a slave’ > ‘to save money’”
 15:25-15:45

Ana Burgers, University of Minnesota

  • “Wheat and pimples: toward an individualized approach to understanding metaphors”
 15:50-16:10

Sean McKinnon & Pilar Prieto, Indiana University-Bloomington & Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  • “The role of prosody and gesture in the online evaluation of genuine vs. mock impoliteness in Catalan”
 16:15-16:35
Discussion 16:35-16:50
Coffee Break 16:50-17:05

Mario Sánchez Gumiel, UW-Milwaukee

  • “Religión versus comercio: Clima de opinión entre el castellano y el tagalo a través de las introducciones del Librong pagaaralan nang manga Tagalog nang uicang Castila de Tomas Pinpín y el Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala de fray Francisco Blancas de San José”
 17:05-17:25

Robert M. Strong, UW-Eau Claire

  • “Native Spanish-speaker perceptions of non-native, English-accented Spanish”
 17:30-17:50

Kevin Bookhamer, Princeton University

  • “The variable grammar of the Spanish subjunctive in second-generation bilinguals in New York City”
 17:55-18:15
Discussion 18:15-18:30
Concluding Remarks 18:30-18:50

 

1st UWM Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics

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Galician Linguistics

Professor Gabriel Rei-Doval discussed the role of Academias, Language Institutes, and Purism in Language Standardization, as part of Standard, Norm and Variation: Processes, Problems and Perspectives (University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, February 23, 2021).

Debate with Professor Gabriel Rei-Doval and Professor Henrique Monteagudo on language standardization and purism as part of the Galician Language Institute Symposium 2021 (University of Santiago de Compostela, February 24, 2021).