Professor
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
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
- "Hablando en chiquito: -ito en el español de Houston." Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America, 90:3, 2013: 295-313.
- “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.
- "Violando la consecutio temporum: variación en el subjuntivo." Revista Mapocho, 64, 2008:295-311.
- “Incorporating linguistic variation into the classroom” (co-author: Marta Fairclough. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Art of Application, 173-191, ed. by Rafael Salaberry and Barbara Lafford. Georgetown University Press, 2006.
- Pablo Neruda: Yo respondo con mi obra (1932-1959: conferencias, discursos, cartas, declaracio nes), co-edited with Pedro Gutiérrez Revuelta. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, June 2004.
- “Simplification and innovation in US Spanish.” Multilingua, 22, 2003:169-184.
- “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.
- Ser y Estar en el Habla de Michoacán, México . México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994.
Dissertations and Theses Directed
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