Dr. Christopher Sams
Office Location: LAN 261
Education:
Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literature (Romance Linguistics Track) from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, June 2009
Dissertation title: The Effect of Frequency on the Loss of the Split Intransitivity in Old Spanish
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Eva Juarros-Daussà
M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2007
B.A. in Spanish from Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH December 2003
Research Interests and Teaching Competencies:
Linguistic typology and universals, historical linguistics, Romance linguistics, second language acquisition, forensic linguistics, psycholinguistics, English composition, rhetoric, and argument
Publications:
2009
In press: “Mood Choice in Spanish, Italian, and French Relative Clauses”in the 92nd
NYSAFLT Annual Meeting Publication
Conference Presentations:
“Perfect Auxiliary Selection in Old Spanish” Presentation at the Temple University Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Studies. 10/24/2008
“The Grammaticalization of the Definite Article from Latin to Spanish” Presentation at Linguistic Colloquium, The University of Colorado Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 11/15/2005