USC Department of Linguistics

 

 

 

Home

Interests

Research

Events

CV

 

 

 

You can contact me at:

mayoralh (at) usc.edu

 

 

Roberto Mayoral Hernández

 

·       PhD in Linguistics, USC

·       MA Linguistics, USC

·       MA in Spanish Language (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

 

 

 

·       Main interests: language variation and change, syntax and lexicon (argument structure), sociolinguistics, corpus/text linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics.

 

·       Languages: I am particularly interested in Romance languages –especially Spanish, French and Italian–, Germanic languages –especially English and Dutch–, Latin, Basque, Early Proto-Indoeuropean.

 

·       Specific topics by field

My research can be classified in the following way, bearing in mind that most of my work was carried out using the variationist approach, where data was extracted from a corpus:

 

·       Syntax: argument structure, locative alternation, dative alternation, causative / inchoative alternation, verb types (unergative, unaccusative, transitive), verbs of light and sound emission, subject position in Spanish, EPP

·       Language variation: frequency adverbs and adverbial expressions in Spanish, word order, subject position, verb types, gender and genre

·       Sociolinguistics: gender and stylistic variation in the use of adverbials in Peninsular and Latin American varieties of Spanish. My work in this area is co-authored with Asier Alcázar.

·       Text/corpus linguistics: all of the above, CREA and CORDE (online at www.rae.es), corpusdelespanol.org, SAS® applications. Some of my work in this area has been co-authored with Asier Alcázar. The research on SAS® applications is co-authored with Lindsey Chen.

·       Historical Linguistics: diachronic evolution of word order in Spanish. Early Proto-Indo-European, Latin and Basque.

·       Psycholinguistics: weight effects in online processing, processing constraints, language production, constituent ordering

·       Computational Linguistics: used as a complement in my text/corpus research. My work in this area was co-authored with Asier Alcázar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The University of Southern California does not screen or control the content on this website and thus does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of such content. All content on this website is provided by and is the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated, and such content does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the University administration or the Board of Trustees