Liberal Arts Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
249 BurrowesUniversity Park , PA 16802
Email:
rct11@psu.edu
Office Phone:
(814) 865-1153
Education:
- PhD, Hispanic Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Research Interests:
Language variation and change, Grammaticalization, Language contactBiography:
Rena Torres Cacoullos is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics. Her work is from a variationist usage-based perspective, based on the quantitative analysis of natural language production data, spoken and written, in varieties of Spanish, English, and Greek. She serves as editor of Language Variation and Change. Her work on bilingual code-switching is currently funded by the National Science Foundation.
Pronouns
- she/her
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State @SIPatPSU