Education:

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University, 2002

M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University, 2001

M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, 1996

B.A. in Translation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1992

Course Offerings:

Span 201 - Intermediate Spanish, I

Span 215-216 Directed Independent Intermediate Spanish I, II

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation

Span 314 - Spanish for Business.

Span 362 - Introduction to the Science of Language.

Span 413 - Spanish in the US: A Sociolinguistic Perspective.

Span 414 - Second Language Acquisition and Spanish

Primary Research Interests:

Spanish and Romance Linguistics

Theoretical Syntax (Spanish, Italian and Catalan)

Second Language Acquisition (phonetic and morphosyntactic development)

Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Pedagogy

Recent Publications:

Alba-Salas, Josep, and Rafael Salaberry. 2007. "Adquisición del español como segunda lengua." In Manel Lacorte, ed. Lingüística aplicada del español. Madrid: Arco/Libros. pp. 47-82.

Alba-Salas, Josep. 2006. “Subject Control into Nominals in Romance.” SKY Journal of Linguistics 19: 9-62. [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/SKY2006/Alba-Salas.pdf]

---. 2006. “Las colocaciones con nombre predicativo: consideraciones prácticas y metodológicas para su tratamiento lexicográfico.” In Margarita Alonso Ramos (ed.) Diccionarios y fraseología
( Anexos de Revista de Lexicografía, 3). A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña. pp. 45-57.

---. 2004. “Fare ‘Do’ Light Verb Constructions and Causatives in Italian: Understanding the Differences”. Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 16 (2): 183-223.

---. 2004. “Reseña del Corpus del español de Mark Davies”. La corónica 33 (1): 207-229.

---. 2004. “Voice Onset Time and Foreign Accent Detection: Are L2 Learners Better than Monolinguals?” Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 17: 9-30.

---. 2004. “Lexically-Selected Expletives: Evidence from Basque and Romance”. SKY Journal of Linguistics 17: 35-100.