Carmen Silva-Corvalan
Expert in the sociolinguistics of Spanish through time and space, including U.S. dialects
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Emerita of Linguistics
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Expertise
- Spanish in the U.S.
- social and geographic varieties of Spanish
- linguistic aspects of bilingualism
- Spanish linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- Latin American dialectology and sociolinguistics
Additional Information
- Author of Sociolinguistica: Teoria y analisis (1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (1996)
- Editor of Spanish in Four Continents (1995)
- Co-editor of Studies in Romance Linguistics (1986) and Bilinguismo y Adquisicion del Español (1992)
Languages
- Spanish
