Rena Torres Cacoullos
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of New Mexico
Ortega Hall 235
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
(505) 277-5907
rcacoull@unm.edu
Research Interests
Spanish linguistics, language variation and change,
the evolution of Spanish grammar, Spanish in the United States.
Courses Taught
Linguistic Ideology
Advanced Grammar
Spanish Sociolinguistics
Diachronic
Change and Variation in Spanish
Selected Publications
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Torres Cacoullos, Rena. 2002. Le: From pronoun to verbal intensifier.
Linguistics 40.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena. 2001. From lexical to grammatical to social meaning.
Language in Society 30.3: 443-78.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena. 2000. Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language
contact. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena and Fernanda Ferreira. 2000. Lexical frequency and voiced
labiodental - bilabial variation in New Mexican Spanish. Southwest Journal
of Linguistics 19.2:1-17.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena. 1999. Variation and grammaticization in progressives:
Spanish -ndo constructions. Studies in Language 23:1.25-59.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena. 1999. Construction frequency and reductive change: Diachronic
and register variation in Spanish clitic climbing. Language Variation
and Change 11:143-70.
·Torres
Cacoullos, Rena and Esteban Hernández. 1999. A trabajarle: la construcción
intensiva en el español mexicano. Southwest Journal of Linguistics
18.2: 79-100.
UNM Department of Spanish and
Portuguese