Rena Torres Cacoullos

Associate Professor of Spanish

Ortega Hall 417
(505) 277-4329
E-mail: rcacoull@unm.edu

Research areas:

  • Language variation and change
  • Grammaticization
  • Language contact
  • Hispanic linguistics

My central interest is language variation and change, especially involving grammaticalization. An ongoing concern is how to establish grammatical change diachronically and grammatical difference synchronically, including in language contact situations, by comparing patterns of variation. Recently I have also examined, in natural speech data, the relationship between fixed formulas and their associated productive constructions.

My former students are Marcela Hurtado (Ph.D. 2001, Central Michigan University), Esther Brown (Ph.D. 2004, University Colorado Boulder), Esteban Hernández (Ph.D. 2004, University of Texas-Panamerican), Mayra Cortés-Torres (Ph.D. 2005, Pima Community College), Matt Alba (Ph.D. 2005, Brigham Young University Idaho), Mark Waltermire (Ph.D. 2006), Jens Clegg (Ph.D. 2006, Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne), and Jessi Aaron (Ph.D. 2006, University of Florida).
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