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Education

• PhD, Galician Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2001
• MPhil, Galician Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1999
• BA, Galician Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1990

Office Hours

On sabbatical leave 2025-26

Courses Taught

• Linguistics 570 (U/G) – Issues in Bilingualism
• Spanish 341 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• Spanish 446 – Hispanic Sociolinguistics
• Spanish 545/703 – Multilingual Spain
• Spanish 545/703 – Spanish in the United States
• Spanish 545/703 – Language Contact in the Spanish-Speaking World
• Portuguese 446 – The Portuguese-Speaking World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Teaching Interests

• Linguistics 570 (U/G) – Issues in Bilingualism
• Linguistics 430 (U/G) – Language and Society
• General Linguistics

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Bilingualism and Language Contact
• Historiography of Linguistics
• Language Shift, Purism, and Planning
• Galician Linguistics; Hispanic, Lusophone and Romance Linguistics

Related Activities

• Coordinator,
• Accredited as Profesor Titular by the 

Selected Publications

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Biographical Sketch

He has published fourteen books in Linguistics and one in creative writing. His research is based on multi-methodologies and cross-disciplinary approaches to sociolinguistics, language contact and bilingualism, and linguistic historiography. He has done research in language maintenance and shift, language policies, ideologies, and planning.