Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
PhD
Scholarly Interests
Variationist socio-linguistics; Contact linguistics; Morphosyntax; Language change; Afro-diasporic Romance vernaculars; Pidgin & Creole languages; Spanish in the United States
Education
- 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. An overview of recent research on the sociolinguistic role of Luso-Africans, African ladinos, and criollos of African descent in the language ecology of the early colonial Spanish Americas, in (eds.) Romero, R & Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián, Spanish in Africa, Africa in Spanish: Challenges and Methodologies in Afro-Hispanic Linguistics, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter – Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 2024
- Nishida, Chiyo; Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli, & Casilde Isabelli. Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers in the US and Subject Placement in unaccusative presentational sentences: How are their grammars constrained? Lingua. 2024
- Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián. The Role of Semantic Referential Deficiency in Cabo-Verdean Creole: Variable choice of third-person reduced referring device. Estudos Linguísticos e Literários. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil. 2022
- Rodríguez-Riccelli, Adrián. Variable 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.
Current Courses
- LIN 207 Language, Society, and the Individual
- SPA 426/506 Latin American Spanish Dialectology
Courses Taught
- SPA 456/510 Spanish Syntax
- RLL 199 HONORS First-year seminar: multilingualism & language contact
- RLL 450/SPA 534 Dialect formation: Spanglish - on so-called Spanglish and new dialect formation
- RLL 525/LIN 624 Second Language Acquisition Theory: Romance languages