Rena Torres Cacoullos

Rena Torres Cacoullos is an American linguist widely known for her work on language variation and change, as well as her research on processes of grammaticalization and the linguistic outcomes of language contact. She is a leading expert on New Mexican Spanish and has developed a corpus of code-switched speech in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community with collaborator Catherine E. Travis. Torres Cacoullos is currently Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University. She has served as an editor of Language Variation and Change since 2007.

Bibliography

Volumes authored 
Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact. A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.

Other publications 
A complete list of Torres Cacoullos' published book chapters, papers, and proceedings publications can be found in her curriculum vitae, located on her webpage.

References

External links 
 Rena Torres Cacoullos' Homepage
 Website for NSF-Funded Project on Language Convergence via Code-switching

Category:Living people
Category:University of New Mexico alumni
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:Arizona State University alumni
Category:Linguists from the United States
Category:Pennsylvania State University faculty
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)