Research Interests
Historical linguistics/language change
- History of the Romance languages, primarily Spanish and Portuguese
- Grammaticalization and discursivization
- (Morpho-)Syntactic change
- Left periphery and its effects
- Developments concerning have-auxiliaries
- Phonological change
- Comparative evolution, particularly lenition and palatalization
Synchronic variation
- Corpus research
- Sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic variation in Spanish
- Discourse marker usage in Latin America
(Morpho-)Syntax