Variationist socio-linguistics; Contact linguistics; Morphosyntax; Language change; Afro-diasporic Romance vernaculars; Pidgin & Creole languages; Spanish in the United States; Multilingualism
PhD, Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida
BA, Global Studies, University of New Haven, CT
Selected Publications
Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián. Veriable subject pronoun expression in Cabo-Verdean Creole: some language internal constraints. In (eds.) Dr. Isabelle Leglise, Dr. Bettina Migge, and Dr. Nicolas Quint. Creoles and variation: new trends and perspectives: Special edition 9 of the Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages. John Benjamins, 2020.
Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián.(under revision) Sociolinguistic niche andsociohistorical context: Language contact outcomes in two Lusophone regions of littoral mainland West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.The Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages. John Benjamins, 2020.
Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián. Espero estén todos: The distribution of the null subordinating complementizer in two varieties of Spanish. In (eds.) Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego, Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across Space and Time. John Benjamins, 2018.
Sessarego, Sandro & Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián. Formal issues in Afro Hispanic syntax: The Afro-Bolivian Spanish case. In (guest ed.) Sandro Sessarego, Current Trends in Afro-Hispanic Linguistics. Lingua, Special Issue, 2018.
Current Courses
SPA 426/SPA 506 Latin American Spanish Dialectology
SPA 456 Spanish Syntax
Courses taught
Portuguese for Spanish speakers and heritage speakers of Portuguese