Current Research Projects

L2/ Bilingual Acquisition

Sánchez, L. and J. Austin. “Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives” (authored-book proposal accepted by Cambridge University Press).

 

Projects on cross-linguistic interference and attrition

 

Austin, J., M. Blume and L. Sánchez. “Morphosyntactic Attrition in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children.”

 

Sánchez, L.  Roggia, A., De Prada and J. Toribio. “The syntax and prosody of contact Spanish: Focalization, Topicalization, and Clitic Left Dislocation.”

 

Sánchez, L.  Convergence in syntax/morphology mapping strategies: evidence from Quechua-Spanish code-mixing

 

Syntax

Projects on Left-Periphery

Sánchez, L. Clitic doubling and the checking of focus in Limeno Spanish.  [paper].

Sánchez, L. “Agreement and left-periphery movement in Quechua.”(draft)

Camacho, J., R. Gutiérrez Bravo and L. Sánchez. “Information Structure in Languages of the Americas” (edited- book proposal accepted by Mouton de Gruyter).