Riley VanMeter

PhD. Student in Romance Languages and Linguistics

The University of California, Berkeley

About Me

I am a Ph.D. Student in Romance Languages and Linguistics at UC Berkeley. I hold an M.A. in Romance Languages (Spanish & Italian linguistics) and a B.A. in International Business and Spanish from The University of Alabama. My research focuses broadly on the intersection between grammatical change and quantitive variationist sociolinguistics in Romance varieties. See my CV for more!

Research Interests

Morphosyntactic change and variation, grammaticalization, quantitative data science and experimental methodology, sociolinguistics, comparative Romance linguistics/grammars, historical (socio-)linguistics, corpus linguistics, languages in contact

Selected Documents, Publications, and Presentations

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Quantifying grammaticalization via translation: The position of Lo Cunto de li Cunti’s Neapolitan on the Romance grammaticalization cline

Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51

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Sociolinguistic Variation of Se Lo(s) in Mexican Spanish: A Corpus-based Approach to Selosismo in Flux

Published in Coyote Papers 25: Proceedings of ALC 16

VanMeterCV.Nov.2.2024.pdf

Curriculum Vitae

Updated November 3, 2024