| Name: |
Ricard Viñas-de-Puig |
| Title: |
Assistant Professor |
| Area: |
Spanish |
| Phone: |
252-328-2103 |
| Fax: |
252-328-6233 |
| E-mail: |
vinasdepuigr@ecu.edu |
| Office: |
Austin 326 |
| Address: |
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353 |
| Links: |
Personal Homepage with downloadable materials
Nuevo South Action Research Collaborative |
BACKGROUND
BA Translation and Interpreting, Universitat de Vic, Catalonia, Spain
MA Spanish Linguistics, Purdue University
PhD Linguistics, Purdue University
AREAS OF INTEREST
Theoretical linguistics; Syntax; Argument structure
Indigenous and endangered languages
Participatory Action Research (PAR)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My work is divided into two different but related areas. From a theoretical linguistics perspective, I look at the argument structure of experience predicates and their possible manifestations cross-linguistically. In my dissertation, using Romance (Catalan, Spanish) and Misumalpan (Mayangna) data, I propose a universally available structure for experience predicates, allowing for predicates with an incorporated experience argument and predicates with a non-incorporated experience, which result in light verb constructions.
My second line of work is based on a model of participatory research. I am currently a member of Nuevo South Action Research Collaborative, a community-based research initiative. Primarily, I collaborate with the community in the promotion of indigenous languages within immigrant communities in Eastern North Carolina.
COURSES TAUGHT
SPAN 1002: Spanish Level II
SPAN 3225: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
SPAN 3335: Structure of the Spanish Language
ENGL 3730: The Structure of English: Phonology and Morphology
