Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Email:
rct11@psu.edu
Office Phone:
(814) 865-1153
Websites:
Biography:
Rena Torres Cacoullos is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics. Her research interests include language variation and change, grammaticalization, and language contact. 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 being funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information please visit: http://nmcode-switching.la.psu.edu/
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