Research Interests
Morphosyntax-semantics interface
Bilingualism
L2 and heritage language acquisition
Language and gender
Generative and cognitive approaches
Publications
Samples, C.E. (in review). Gender-inclusive tweets as a reflection of political and social events in 2022 Spain.
Samples, C.E. (2024). Gender-inclusive language in Twitter. Hispania, 107(1). 139-160.
Samples, C.E. (2016). Un análisis aspectual de "La vida con la ola" por Octavio Paz. Spanish and Portuguese Review, 2. 99-111.
Recent Conference Presentations
Samples, C.E. (2025, November 13-15). Contexts of gender-inclusive language in Peninsular Spanish tweets [Conference presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2025, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2025, September 17-20). ¿Se aplica la Condición de Afectividad al español de México?: Un estudio de corpus [Conference presentation]. Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada 2025, Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico.
Samples, C.E. (2025, September 10-12). Number features and distributivity in possessive DPs: Rethinking Romance-English contrasts [Conference presentation]. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 2025, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Samples, C.E. (2024, October 17-19). Four years later: Is gender-inclusive language still a change in progress? [Conference presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2024, Omaha, NE, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2024, September 19-21). Temporal changes in gender-inclusive language use by Twitter users in Spain [Conference presentation]. South Central Modern Language Association 2024, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2022, October 13-15). Syntax meets semantics: Determiner choice in possessive sentences and its semantic implications in L2 Spanish [Conference presentation]. South Central Modern Language Association 2022, Memphis, TN, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2022, July 9-12). Possessive determiner phrases in Spanish: The intersection of number and meaning [Conference presentation]. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2022, San Juan, PR, United States. *presentation chosen for inclusion in the 2022 Graduate Student Day competition.
Samples, C.E., & Hannahan, E. (2021, November 12-13). ¿Concuerdas en ello?: La concordancia nominal entre los niños bilingües en inglés y español [Virtual conference presentation]. V Jornadas de Lingüística LINGUAQ 2021, Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
Samples, C.E. (2021, October 7-9). En un lugar de La Mancha de que su nombre no quiero acordarme: The use of cuyo in two Spanish-language corpora [Virtual conference presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Hannahan, E., & Samples, C.E. (2021, September 17-20). Son todas los sintagmas erróneo?: Gender and number agreement errors in the speech of Spanish-English bilingual children [Virtual conference presentation]. Linguistic Association of the Southwest 2021, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2021, July 8-11). Gender inclusive language in Twitter [Conference presentation]. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2021, Atlanta, GA, United States. *presentation chosen for inclusion in the 2021 Graduate Student Day competition.
Samples, C.E. (2021, July 8-11). The use of verbal mode in Spanish conditional clauses; [Conference presentation]. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2021, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Samples, C.E. (2020, November 20-21). Eleven Romance color terms and their semantic evolution [Virtual conference presentation]. 20th Conference of the Department of Linguistics 2020, Bucharest, Romania.
Workshop
Samples, C.E. (2023, May 11-13). Task-based activities for the teaching of possessive structures to L1 Spanish-L2 English learners [Virtual workshop]. II Congreso Internacional Virtual de Investigación en Enseñanza – Aprendizaje de Lenguas y Cultura 2023, Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
Research Experience
Research on L1 Spanish-L2 Spanish possessive structures in Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., Mexico, February-April and June 2023.