faculty interest info : linguistics

Dworkin, Steven. Professor of Romance Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Linguistics, Program in Linguistics. Major research area: Historical Linguistics. Dr. Dworkin is a specialist in Romance and Hispanic diachronic linguistics, with emphasis on the evolution of the lexicon. His recent publications have dealt with internal structural factors which have led to changes (especially word loss) in the vocabulary of Medieval Spanish. He is currently studying the interface between semantic change, syntactic change and lexical loss. Dworkin is also interested in issues of Spanish diachronic phonology and morphology (both inflectional and derivational), as well as the application to Spanish and Romance historical linguistics of recent insights on language change afforded by typology, grammaticaliztion and sociohistorical linguistics.

Toon, Thomas. Associate Professor of Linguistics, Program in Linguistics and Associate Professor of English Language and Literature. Major research areas: Historical linguistics Associated research areas: Old Germanic languages and dialects; medieval studies; and paleography.

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