Prof. Dr. Paul O'Neill

Kurzbiographie

Paul completed his undergraduate degree in Classics and Spanish at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College). He then moved to Madrid to carry out the Spanish equivalent of a MPhil in Lingüística Teórica y sus Aplicaciones at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset affiliated to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He wrote his MPhil thesis on the phonetics of the Andalusian variety of Spanish.

He returned to Oxford (Linacre College) and completed a DPhil on 'The Ibero-Romance Verb: allomorphy and the notion of the morphome' in relation with a Research Project entitled "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: comparative evidence from Romance Languages".

Research interests

Paul's research focuses on variation and change in the Ibero-Romance Languages (Spanish, Catalan Portuguese, Galician, Asturian, Aragonese) and specifically on the varieties of Portuguese and Spanish spoken around the world. He is interested in detailing and explaining historical and current changes in these languages and using his data to address questions in linguistic theory – namely, how language is mentally represented and, specifically, the interplay between storage and computation and why and how is it that languages change?

He maintains that language should not be studied as a self-contained system and in isolation to other human cognitive and developmental skills and stresses the need to appreciate the role that diachrony has played in shaping synchronic linguistic structures, including the socio-political history of speakers. He views language as a complex adaptive system and grammar as emergent and shaped by both internal and external linguistic factors.

Publications

Monographs

(Both these books are being written and under contract)

O’Neill (in preparation) The Oxford History of Spanish Morphology. Oxford: OUP.

O’Neill P. & Dubert. F. (in preparation). The Oxford History of Portuguese and Galician Morphology. Oxford:OUP.

Edited Volumes

Bermingham, N. & P. O’Neill (2022) Language and Education in the Lusophone world. Special linguistics edition of journal Modern Languages Open. Liverpool: LUP

Prado, N., G. Massini-Cagliari & P. O’Neill (organisers) (2020) Variação, mudança e preconceito linguístico: fenômenos da língua portuguesa atual e antiga [variation, change and linguistic prejudice: phenomena from present-day and old Portuguese] Edição especial de Falange Miúda.

Fabregas, A., I. Gil & P. O’Neill. (2005) Cuadernos de Lingüística XII, Madrid. Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset.

Chapters in Books

O’Neill, P. (accepted), The development of morphomic structures. In Rainer, R & P. Arkadiev (eds) Handbook of historical morphology. Oxford: OUP.

O’Neill, P. (in press), Morphologization and the boundary between morphology and phonology in the Romance languages. In Gardani F., M. Loporcaro et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.

O’Neill, P. (2022), Morphologically ‘autonomous’ structures in the Romance languages. In Gardani F., M. Loporcaro et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.

Finbow, T & O’Neill, P. (2022), Koinéization and language contact: the social causes of morphological change in and with Portuguese. In Ledgeway, A, J.C. Smith & N. Vincent. Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony: a View from Romance (pp 381-411). Oxford: OUP

O’Neill, P. (in press), Morfología flexiva del verbo. In Dworkin, S., G. Clavería & A. Octavio Toledo (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Routeledge.

O’Neill, P. & Wheeler, M (2022), Sandhi phenomena. In Ledgeway, A & M. Maiden (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (209-233). Cambridge: CUP

Esher, L & O’Neill, P. (2022), Autonomy of Morphology. In Ledgeway, A & M. Maiden (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (346-370). Cambridge: CUP

O´Neill, P. (2018). Velar Allomorphy in Ibero-Romance: roots, endings and clashes of morphomes. In Bouzouita, M., I. Sitaridou & E. Pato, (eds.), Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morphosyntax (pp 13-47). [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

O’Neill, P. (2016). Lexicalism, the Principle of Morphology-free Syntax and the Principle of Syntax-free Morphology. In Hippisley A. & G. Stump (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (pp 237-272). Cambridge: CUP.

O'Neill, P. (2014). Similar and differing patterns of allomorphy in the Spanish and Portuguese verbs. In Amaral, P. & A. M. Carvalho, (eds), Portuguese/Spanish interfaces (pp. 175-202). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

O'Neill, P. (2013). Morphomes and morphosyntactic/semantic features. In Cruschina, S., M. Maiden, & J.C. Smith, (eds.), Boundaries of Pure Morphology (pp 221-247). Oxford: OUP.

O'Neill, P. (2011). The notion of the Morphome. In Goldbach, M., M. Maiden, & J.C. Smith, (eds.), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. (pp 70-95). Oxford: OUP.

O'Neill, P. (2011). El morfoma en el asturiano: diacronía y sincronía [The morphome in Asturian: diachrony and synchrony]. In Homenaxe a Xosé Lluís García Arías (Vol. 1, pp 319-348). Oviedo: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.

Maiden, M., & O'Neill, P. (2010). Morphomic Defectiveness. In M. Baerman, G. Corbett, & D. Brown, (eds.) Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us (pp. 103-124). London: OUP/British Academy.

Maiden, M., Swearingen, A., & O'Neill, P. (2010). Imperative Morphology in Diachrony. In M. Dufresne, F. Dupuis, & E. Vocaj, (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007 (pp 99-108). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Pamies, A., Amorós, M. C., & O'Neill, P. (2007). Esquemas entonativos declarativos en el habla de Almería [Intonational patterns in declarative clauses in the speech of Almería]. In J. Dorta, (ed.), La prosodía en el ámbito lingüístico románico (pp. 299-311). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: La página ediciones.

Articles in Journals

O’Neill, P. (2022). Language and education in Brazil: a historical and critical sociolinguistic perspective. Modern Languages Open 1(14): 1-21.

O’Neill, P. (2022). Língua e educação no Brasil: problemas estruturais linguísticos e suas origens históricas. Modern Languages Open 1(14): 1-21.
Note: Portuguese translation of article above - edition was bilingual.

Bermingham, N & O’Neill, P. Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries. Modern Languages Open 1(13):1-13.

Bermingham, N & O’Neill, P. Considerações ideológicas e teóricas para a educação pós-colonial nos países lusófonos. Modern Languages Open 1(13):1-13.
Note: Portuguese translation of article above - edition was bilingual.

O’Neill, P (2020). Racial and Linguistic prejudice in Brazil: comparisons, contrasts and anthropophagic solutions. Falange Miúda 5(2). [Edição Especial; Variação, mudança e preconceito linguístico: fenômenos da língua portuguesa atual e antiga]

O’Neill, P (2020). O preconceito linguístico e o preconceito racial: comparações, contrastes e soluções antropofágicas. Falange Miúda 5(2).
Note: Portuguese translation of article above.

O’Neill, P & Massini-Cagliari, G. (2019). Linguistic Prejudice and Discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond: Suggestions and Recommendations. Journal of Language and Discrimination 3(1): 32-62.

O’Neill, P (2018) Near Synonymy in Morphological Structures: Why Catalans can abolish constitutions but Portuguese and Spanish speakers can’t. Languages in Contrast 18(1): 6-34.

O´Neill, P (2015). The Origin and Spread of Velar Allomorphy in the Spanish Verb. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92(5):489-518.

O'Neill, P (2014). The morphome in constructive and abstractive models of morphology. Morphology, 24: 25-70.

Pato, E & O'Neill, P (2013). Los gerundios analógicos en la Historia del español (e iberorromance) [Analogical gerunds in the history of Spanish (and Ibero-Romance)]. Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 61(1): 1-27

O´Neill, P. (2011). Alternancias vocálicas en el presente de los verbos en -ir. Un análisis desde la Morfología Autónoma [Vocalic alternations in the present of -ir verbs. An autonomous morphological analysis]. Revista de la Historia de la Lengua Española, 6:87-129.

O´Neill, P. (2011). New perspectives on the effects of yod in Ibero-Romance. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89(5):665-697.

O'Neill, P. (2011). The Evolution of 'el pretérito y tiempos afines' in Ibero-Romance. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88:851-878.

O'Neill, P. (2010). Una explicación teórica de la defectividad verbal en la lengua española [A theoretical explanation of verbal defectiveness in Spanish]. Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 302:265-289.

O'Neill, P. (2010). Variación y cambio en las consonantes oclusivas del español de Andalucía [Variation and change in stop consonants in the Spanish of Andalusia]. Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 19:11-41.

O'Neill, P. (2009). Los verbos defectivos en la lengua española: estudio sincrónico y diacrónico descriptivo basado en datos de corpus [Defective verbos in Spanish: a synchronic and diachronic study based on corpus data]. Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 300:255-287.

O'Neill, P. (2009). El pretérito y tiempos averaos nel Dominiu Llingüísticu Ástur: formes diferentes pero non dixebraes [The preterite and related tenses in Asturian linguistic domain]. Lletres Asturianes, 100:27-41.

O'Neill, P. (2009). The effect of s-aspiration on occlusives in Andalusian Spanish. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. 12:73-86.

Pamies, A., Amorós, M. C., & O'Neill, P. (2008). Esquemas entonativos de frase declarativa en el habla de Jaén [Intonational patterns in declarative clauses in the speech of Jaen]. Experimental Prosody. Special Issue (2) of Language Design. 191-202.

O'Neill, P. (2005). Final /s/ in Western Andalusian Spanish: the phonetic neutralization of a phonological contrast. Language Design, 7:151-166.

Conference Proceedings

O'Neill, P. (2008). La fonación murmurada y la preaspiración en andaluz [Breathy voice and pre-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish]. In A. Pamies, & E. Melguizo, New trends in experimental phonetics: selected papers from the IVth International Conference on Experimental Phonetics: (Granada, 11-14 feb. 2008) (pp. 193-200). Granda: Granada Lingvistica.

Goldbach, M., Hinzelin, M. O., Maiden, M., O’Neill, P., Smith, J. C., & Swearingen, A., (2007) À la recherche de l’arbitraire dans la morphologie diachronique et comparative du verbe roman: syncrétisme et supplétisme verbaux. In M. Iliescu, H. Siller-Runggaldier, & P. Danler (Ed.), XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes (Innsbruck, 3-8 septembre 2007) (pp. 311-320). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

O'Neill, P. (2006). La resolución del elemento sibilante en el andaluz [The outcome of /s/ in Andalusian Spanish]. V Congreso Andaluz de Lingüística General. Homenaje al Molina Redondo. 1, (pp. 513-523). Granda: Granada Lingvistica.

Presentations (starred talks indicate invited talks)

• July 2023 Variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for teaching. Presented at the L2 Portuguese @ Lancaster Conference, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom.
• June 2023 Sandhi effects of /s/ aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Presented at the IX International Conference on Experimental Phonetics, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
• June 2023 Portugal is different… o por lo menos su imperio lo fue. Paradigmas mixtos en el español y el portugués [Portugal is different… or at least its Empire was. Mixed paradigms in Spanish and Portuguese]. Presented at the IV Congreso Internacional de Formas y Fórmulas de Tratamiento en el Mundo Hispano-Luso, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain.
• *March 2023 Variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for teaching. Presented at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
• Feb 2023 Cuestionando el continuo afro-ibérico [Quetsioning the Afro-Iberian continuum] Presented at the German Hispanistentag, Universität de Graz, Austria, in a workshop entitled: Reestructuración, relexificación y creación de variedades a partir de materiales hispánicos: de Schuchardt a la ecología lingüística actual en el contexto de las Humanidades Digitales
• Feb 2023 Challenges for the teaching of Portuguese from a usage-based perspective: Evidence from the use of imperative forms in Brazil. Presented at the German Hispanistentag, Universität de Graz, Austria, in a workshop entitled: La adquisición y la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras desde una perspectiva basada en el uso: enlaces empíricos entre la lingüística y la didáctica.
• *Jan 2023 Morphological Variation in Portuguese. Presented at the Romance Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Sept 2022. Linguistic variation in Brazilian Portuguese: the realities and its implications. Presented at the II TROPO Conference for Teachers and Researchers of Portuguese in the UK and Ireland, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Sept 2022 Dictators and oligarchies: a morphological perspective. Presented at the 20th International Morphology Meeting. Budapest, Hungary.
• Jan 2022 Origins of Brazilian Portuguese: koineisation, creolization and loss of morphological complexity. The Romance Linguistics Symposium, Cambridge.
• *March 2021 Mudança linguística e política lingüística [Langauge Change and Language Policy]. Keynote talk presented at the Brazilian Association of Linguistics (ABRALIN em cena Rodonia), Brazil.
• *March 2021 Phonology and its interfaces. Short talk and member of round table panel at the Brazilian Association of Linguistics online conference on Phonology, Brazil.
• *Feb 2021 The boundary between morphology and phonology and the concept of morphologization. Presented at Romance Linguistics Seminars Online (University of Cambridge, University of Birmingham and Anglia Ruskin University), UK.
• *August 2019 O preconceito linguístico no Brasil e o papel da pesquisa lingüística [Linguistic prejudice in Brazil and the role of linguistic research]. Presented at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
• *August 2019 O preconceito linguístico no Brasil e o papel da pesquisa lingüística [Linguistic prejudice in Brazil and the role of linguistic research]. Presented at the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, Salvador, Brazil.
• August 2019 A potencialidade do galego de esclarecer a origem do português popular brasileiro: o caso da morfologia verbal e pronominal [The potential of Galician to shed light on the origin of popular Brazilian Portuguese: changes in the verbal and pronominal morphology]. Presented at the Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil.
• August 2019 O papel da pesquisa linguística no combate ao preconceito linguística [The role of linguistic research in combating linguistic prejudice]. Presented at the Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil.
• *August 2019 Methods and strategies of research dissemination in order to achieve maximum impact and engage with policy makers and non-academic partners. Presented at the Workshop on Multimodal Approaches to Intercultural Topics, University Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
• *July 2019. A origem do português popular brasileiro: comparação morfológica com o galego e o português europeu [The origin of popular Brazilian Portuguese: morphological comparison with Galician and European Portuguese]. Presented at the Instituto da Língua Galega, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
• June 2019 Language, Prejudice, Social Exclusion and Development: Introductory Remarks. Presented at the Workshop (24th-25th June) on Language, Prejudice, Social Exclusion and Development. University of Sheffield, UK.
• June 2019 Língua, Preconceito e Exclusão Social no Brasil [Langauge, Prejudice and Social Exclusion in Brazil]. Presented at the Workshop (26th June) on Língua, Preconceito, Exclusão Social e Desenvolvimento no Mundo Lusófono. University of Sheffield, UK.
• June 2019 Creating esources for varieties of spoken Portuguese. Presented with Sonia Buckland as a poster at the I Conference of Teachers and Researchers of the Portuguese Language in the UK (TropoUK): Português Língua Global, King's college, London, UK.
• June 2019 What is the Portuguese Language? Perspectives from Sociohistorical Linguistics. Presented at the I Conference of Teachers and Researchers of the Portuguese Language in the UK (TropoUK): Português Língua Global, King's college, London.
• *April 2019 Porque as línguas mudam? [Why do languages change?]. Presented at the Department of Linguistics, UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *Jan. 2019 El cambio lingüístico, el prejuicio lingüístico y el rol de la investigación lingüística [Langauge change, linguistic prejudice and the role of linguistic research]. Presented at the Department of Spanish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• *Jan. 2019 Morphologization and the boundary between morphology and phonology. Presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• *Dec. 2018 Linguistic Prejudice and the role of linguistic research in social change: the case of Andalusian Spanish and Experimental Phonetics. Presented at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
• *Nov. 2018 Language and identity and linguistic prejudice. Presented at the INPRINT event at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
• August 2018 La importancia de la historia de la lengua para la teoría lingüística [The importance of historical linguistics for linguistic theory]. Presented at the Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española in Lima, Perú.
• May 2018 /s/-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish: An experimental study of four cities. Presented at Investigando las hablas andaluzas: New approaches to Andalusian Spanish. Innsbruck, Austria.
• *March 2018 'Novos avanços em linguística histórica e no estudo da mudança morfológica' [New advances in historical linguistics and in the study of morphological change]. Presented at a training workshop on Linguistic Prejudice & New Advances is Historical Linguistics at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *March 2018 O preconceito linguístico no Brasil [Linguistic prejudice in Brazil]. Presented at a training workshop on Linguistic Prejudice & New Advances in Historical Linguistics at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *March 2018 Concordâncias e discordâncias no paradigma verbal [Agreements and disagreements in the verbal paradigm]. Presented at a training workshop on Linguistic Prejudice & New Advances is Historical Linguistics at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *March 2018 Métodos experimentais para o estudo da mudança fonológica [Experimental methods in the study of phonological change]. Presented at a training workshop on Linguistic Prejudice & New Advances is Historical Linguistics at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *March 2018 Estudo de casos de mudanças fonológicas [Case studies for phonological change]. Presented at a training workshop on Linguistic Prejudice & New Advances is Historical Linguistics at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *March 2018 Verbos defectivos no Português Brasileiro [Defective verbs in Brazilian Portuguese]. Presented at UNESP (Araraquara), Brazil.
• *July 2017 La hipótesis de la integridad léxica, la interfaz morfología-sintaxis y lo puramente morfológico [The lexical integrity hypothesis, the morphology-syntax interface and the purely morphological]. Presented at a workshop on the relationship between Morphology and Syntax entitled ‘Variación en la interfaz morfología-sintaxis’ at the Universitat de Girona, Spain.
• July 2017 Perspectivas novas para a história do verbo português [New perspectives for the history of the Portuguese verb]. Presented at IV Congresso Internacional de Linguística Histórica, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
• April 2017 El cambio fonético en el español: el caso de la aspiración [Phonetic change in Spanish: the case of aspiration]. Presented at the VI Joranadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
• *March 2017 Perspectivas novas para a historia da morfologia galega-portuguesa [New perspetives for a morphological history of Galician-Portuguese]. Presented at the Grupo de Morfologia Histórica do Português, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
• *March 2017 O preconceito lingüístico e a lingüística histórica [Linguistic prejudice and historical linguistics]. Presented at the Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• *March 2017 La representación mental del léxico y el cambio lingüístico [The mental lexicón and linguistic change]. Presented at the Department of Spanish Phililogy at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
• *March 2017 Los cambios fonéticos en el español: pasado, presente y futuro [Phonetic changes in Spanish: past, present and future]. Presented at the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
• *March 2017 ¿Existen los morfemas y los fonemas? [Do morphemes and phonemes exist?]. Presented at the Department of Linguistics and Spanish Philology at the Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
• April 2016 Elementos similares da morfologia entre a morfologia do portugues e do espanhol [Similarities bewteen Spanish and Portuguese morphology]. Presented at the V Jornadas de Lingüística Hispánica. Centros y periferias, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
• April 2016 Teaching Medieval and Early-Modern Spanish: the problem of the texts. Presented at the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Northumbria, UK.
• Jan. 2016 Aspiration: the new YOD! Presented at the Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Dec. 2015 Defectivity in Ibero-Romance: why Catalans can abolish constitutions but Spanish and Portuguese speakers can. Presented at Iberocon 2015, University of Ghent, Belgium.
• *May. 2015 Lecciones de la morfología histórica para la teoría morfológica [Lessons for morphological thoery from historical morphology]. Presented at the University of Girona, Spain.
• April 2015 Spanish Linguistics and Teaching Spanish Pronunciation. Presented at the Annual Conference of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Exeter, UK.
• *March 2015 Diachronic contributions to synchronic theories of morphology: evidence from Romance verb morphology. Presented at the Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
• *Feb. 2015. Sound change in Andalusian Spanish. Presented to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Berkeley, USA.
• Feb. 2013 Defective Verbs in Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Presented at the School of Languages and Cultures Research Seminar Series, University of Sheffield, UK.
• April 2013 Gender differences in Peninsular Spanish Pronunciation. Presented at the Annual Conference of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Sept 2012 Nuevas perspectivas sobre los efectos de la yod desinencial en el verbo español [New perspectives on the effects of desinential yod in the Spanish verb]. Presented at the IX Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española, Cádiz, Spain.
• Sept. 2012 Quisiendo por queriendo: Condicionamiento fonológico y cambio morfológico en los gerundios ‘analógicos’ del español [Qusiendo for queriendo: Phonological conditioning and morphological change in the ‘analogical’ gerunds of Spanish]. Presented with Enrique Pato (Université de Montréal) at the IX Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Lengua Española, Cádiz, Spain.
• *April 2012 Yod or no Yod: Metaphony and Allomorphy in the Ibero-Romance Verb. Presented at The 2nd Cambridge Colloquium on the Histories of the Ibero-Romance Languages. Queen's College, Cambridge, UK.
• April 2012 History repeating itself: changes in Southern Peninsular Spanish pronunciation. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Sterling, Scotland.
• *Feb. 2012 Changes in Spanish Pronunciation. Presented at the Sub-Faculty of Spanish Seminar Series, University of Oxford, UK.
• Jan. 2012 Morphological complexity and the morphome. Presented at the International Conference on Morphological Complexity, British Academy, London (organised by the Surrey Morphology Group), UK.
• July 2011 The effect of yod on the verb in Ibero-Romance and autonomous morphological structures. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan.
• July 2011 Differences between morphemic and morphomic structure. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan.
• Oct. 2010 The morphome and morphosyntactic features. Presented at the Second Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology Oxford, U.K.
• Jan. 2010 New aspirated occlusive phonemes in Andalusian Spanish. Presented at the XXXVIII Romance Linguistic Seminar, Cambridge, U.K.
• March 2009 What do they speak in the South of Spain? Spanish? Andalusian Spanish? Just Andaluz. Presented at the SOCLAS Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K.
• Feb. 2009 Mind the Gap: defectivity in the verbal paradigm. A corpus based account. Presented at the Language Research Seminar, University of Liverpool, U.K.
• Nov. 2008. Los verbos defectivos en el Ibero-Romance [Defective verbs in Ibero-Romance]. Presented at the XIII Forum of Iberian Studies, Oxford, U.K.
• *Nov. 2008 El pretérito y tiempos averaos nel Dominiu Llingüísticu Ástur: formes diferentes pero non dixebraes [The preterite and related tenses in the Asturian linguistic domain: different but not unrelated forms]. Presented at the Conceyu Internacional de la Llingua Asturiana, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
• Aug. 2008 Morphomes, Morphemes and Morphological Segmentation: Evidence from Ibero-Romance. Presented at the First Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology Oxford, U.K.
• May. 2008 The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Morphome in Ibero-Romance. Presented at the Oxford Romance Linguistic Seminar, Oxford, U.K.
• April 2008 On Morphomic Defectiveness. Presented with Martin Maiden at the Defective Paradigms Workshop at the British Academy, London, U.K.
• April 2008 El origen y propagación del diptongo [je] en el pretérito y tiempos afines [The origin and spread of the diphthong [je] in the preterite and related tenses]. Presented at the VIII Congreso Nacional del AJHILE, Barcelona, Spain.
• Feb. 2008 La fonética de la /s/ implosiva andaluza en el interior de palabra [The phonetics of coda /s/ in word internal position in Andalusian Spanish]. Presented at the IV Conferencia de Fonética Experimental, Granada, Spain.
• Feb. 2008 Esquemas entonativos de frase declarativa en el habla de Jaén [Intonation patterns in declarative sentences in the speech of Jaen]. Presented with Antonio Pamiés and Mari Cruz Amorós at the IV Conferencia de Fonética Experimental, Granada, Spain
• Jan. 2008 The Development of the Castilian Desinences for ‘el pretérito y tiempos afines’ a Comparative View from Ibero-Romance. Presented at the XXXVI Romance Linguistic Seminar, Cambridge, U.K.
• Aug. 2007 Imperative Morphology in Diachrony: evidence from the Romance Languages. Presented with Martin Maiden and Andrew Swearingen at the XVIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, Canada.
• Dec. 2006 La diptongación como proceso morfológico [Diphthongisation as a morphological process]. Presented at the 36th Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, Spain.
• Dec. 2004 ‘La resolución del elemento sibilante en el andaluz’ [The pronunciation of /s/ in Andalusian Spanish]. Presented at the V Congreso Andaluz de Lingüística General. Homenaje a Molina Redondo. Granada, Spain

Teaching

Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture: Einführungsvorlesung in die Romanische Sprachwissenschaft (with Professors Dufter, Paciaroni, Wolf)
Lecture: Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics
Seminar: El español y el portugués en el continente americano: comparaciones y contrastes
Wissenschaftliche Übung: Altspanisch I
Oberseminar Romanistische Linguistik (with Professors Dufter, Paciaroni, Wolf)

Summer semester 2024

Lecture: La historia social y política de América Latina y sus efectos lingüísticos
Seminar: El cambio fonético y fonológico en el español y el portugués
Wissenschaftliche Übung: Altspanisch I
Oberseminar Romanistische Linguistik (with Professors Dufter, Paciaroni, Wolf)

Winter semester 2023/24

Lecture: Variedades del español
Seminar: Historia externa de las lenguas de la península ibérica
MA seminar: Linguistic Prejudice and Discrimination
Oberseminar Romanistische Linguistik (with Professors Dufter, Gruber, Linzmeier)