Rena Torres Cacoullos
Rena Torres Cacoullos (born in the USA ) is an American linguist , Romance studies (Hispanic) and university professor.
Live and act
She was born in the United States as the daughter of the mathematician and university professor Theophilos N. Cacoullos (* 1932) from Pachna ( Cyprus ) and his wife, the philosopher and university professor Ann Rossetto. Torres Cacoullos has two sisters, Nike and Galatea Cacoullos. She received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) for Hispanic Linguistics in 1999 from the University of New Mexico . Previously in 1995 the Magister artium (MA) also in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona , the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Spanish, in 1993 from the Arizona State University .
Rena Torres Cacoullos is a linguist who became known for her work on " language variation ". In addition, she researches the process of grammaticalization. She is considered a leading expert on the specifics of using the Spanish language in New Mexico . Torres Cacoullos is a professor of Spanish linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University .
literature
- Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact. John Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2000, ISBN 1-5561-9938-4
- Le: From pronoun to verbal intensifier. Linguistics 40 (2002).
- From lexical to grammatical to social meaning. Language in Society (2001) 30.3: 443-78.
- Variation and grammaticization in progressives: Spanish -ndo constructions. Studies in Language (1999) 23: 1.25-59.
- Construction frequency and reductive change: Diachronic and register variation in Spanish clitic climbing. Language Variation and Change (1999) 11: 143-70.
- Rena Torres Cacoullos, Esteban Hernández: A trabajarle: la construcción intensiva en el español mexicano. Southwest Journal of Linguistics (1999) 2 18: 79-100.
- Rena Torres Cacoullos, Fernanda Ferreira: Lexical frequency and voiced labiodental - bilabial variation in New Mexican Spanish. Southwest Journal of Linguistics (2000) 2-19: 1-17.
Web links
- Rena Torres Cacoullos. Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Pennsylvania State University, USA; official university website
- New Mexico Spanish-English Codeswitching.
- Photography by Mrs. Rena Torres Cacoullos
- bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ CV
- ↑ CH. A. Charalambides, MV Koutras, N. Balakrishnan: Probability and Statistical Models with Applications. CRC Press, 2000 ISBN 1-4200-3608-4 , p. XXIX
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torres Cacoullos, Rena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist, romance scholar, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |