Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Office: 432 AH
mjgutierrez@uh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics – University of Southern California (1989)
• M.A. in Spanish – University of Southern California (1987)
• M.A. Linguistics – University of Concepcion, Chile (1984)
• Teacher of Spanish Language and Literature, Institute of Spanish American Cooperation, Madrid, Spain. (1982)
• B.A. Spanish and Education – University of Concepcion, Chile (1979)
• B.A. Linguistics and Literature – University of Concepcion, Chile (1978)

Teaching and Research Interests

• Teaching and Research Interests

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Bilingual Communities in Spain
• Advanced Spanish Grammar
• Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• Contrastive Structures
• Spanish Phonetics
• Public Speaking in Spanish
• Advanced Oral Communication in Spanish
• Intermediate Spanish for Native Speakers I
• Intermediate Spanish for Native Speakers II
• Intermediate Spanish I
• Intermediate Spanish II

Graduate

• Language change: sociolinguistic aspects
• Spanish in a Contact Situation
• Spanish Sociolinguistics
• Spanish Dialects in the United States
• Spanish Syntax
• Spanish Phonology
• Historical Grammar
• Spanish Semantics
• Spanish Grammar for Teachers
• Ways of Speaking in Mexico
• Ways of Speaking in Spain

Selected Publications

Books

• Ser y Estar en el Habla de Michoacán, México. México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994.
  
  

• Pablo Neruda: Yo respondo con mi obra (1932-1959: conferencias, discursos, cartas, declaraciones), co-edited with Pedro Gutiérrez Revuelta. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, June 2004.

Articles

• “La media subida de clíticos en el español de Houston.” Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, Vol. 58:2, 2010:645-662. 
  
  
• "Restringiendo la subida de clíticos: reflexividad, modalidad verbal y contacto lingüístico en el español de Houston."Hispanic Research Journal, Vol. 9: 4, September, 2008:299-313. 
  
  
• “Incorporating linguistic variation into the classroom” (co-author: Marta Fairclough.Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Art of Application, 173-191, ed. byRafael Salaberry and Barbara Lafford. Georgetown University Press, 2006. 
  
  
• “Discurso irreal de pasado en el español de Houston: la disputa continúa,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXXIV:3, 1997:257-269. 
  
  
• “Tendencias y alternancias en la expresión de condicionalidad en el español hablado en Houston,” Hispania, 79, 1996:316-326. 
  
  
• “On the future of the future tense in the Spanish of the Southwest.” Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism, 214-226, Ed. By C. Silva-Corvalán. Georgetown University Press, 1995. 
  
  
• “La influencia de "los de abajo" en tres procesos de cambio lingüístico en el español de Morelia, Michoacán.”Language Problems & Language Planning, Vol. 18: 3, 1994:257-269. 
  
  
• “Clíticos del español en una situación de contacto.” (Co-author: Carmen Silva-Corvalán) Revista Española de Lingüística Vol. 23:2, 1993:207-220.

Dissertations and Theses Directed

• Completed
• In progress