Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, 1997.
Dissertation title: "Topic, Focus and Bare Nominals in Spanish"
M.A. in Spanish Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, 1994.
M.Ed. University of Liverpool (UK), 1993.
Thesis: "The use of passive forms in Spanish"
Licenciatura in English Philology, University of Oviedo (Spain), 1988.
Publications
Book:
Casielles, E. (2004). The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Evidence from Spanish and English. New York: Routledge.
Articles:
Casielles, E. (1996). "On the Misbehavior of Bare Nouns in Spanish." In C. Parodi et al. (eds.) Aspects of Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the XXIV Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 135-148.
Casielles, E. (1997). "¿Es la Interpretación Arbitraria Realmente Arbitraria?" Revista Española de Lingüística 26.2, 359-377.
Casielles, E. (1998). "Preverbal Subjects vs. Dislocated Phrases in Spanish." In Gutiérrez Rexach and J. del Valle (eds.) Perspectives on Spanish Linguistics. Volume 3. Columbus, Ohio: OSU, 1-19.
Casielles, E. (1998). "Syntactic Structure, Information Structure and Generative Grammar." Festschrift in Honor of Noam Chomsky's 70th Birthday, http://cognet.mit.edu/Books/celebration/essays/casielles.html.
Casielles, E. (1998). "FOCUS PREPOSING (it is called)." University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 21, 51-64.
Casielles, E. (1999). "Notes on the Topic-Focus Articulation." In Gutiérrez Rexach and F. Martinez Gil (eds.) Advances in Hispanic Linguistics. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 343-363.
Casielles, E. (2000). "El Tratamiento del Orden de Palabras en Algunas Gramáticas de los siglos XIX y XX." Historiographia Linguistica XXVII:2/3, 415-436.
Casielles, E. (2000). "On the Topicalizing Nature of Multiple Left-dislocations." In L. J. Conathan et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 26 Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 53-64.
Casielles, E. (2001). "The Syntax and Semantics of Preverbal Topical Phrases in Spanish." In J. Gutiérrez Rexach and L. Silva-Villar (eds.) Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics. Berlin/New York: Mouton DeGruyter, 65-82.
Casielles, E. (2003). "On the Interaction between Syntactic and Information Structures in Spanish." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80, 1-20.
Casielles, E. (2003). "Left-dislocated Structures in Spanish." Hispania 86.2, 326-338.
Casielles, E. (forthcoming). "Anticipating Modern Linguistics: Sanctius' Minerva." In Estudios de Lingüística Hispánica en Honor a Juan Clemente Zamora-Munné. Oviedo: TREA.
Presentations
"Reevaluating some of Nebrija's abominable grammarians: Modistic syntax", 38th Annual Conference, International Linguistic Association, New York, April, 1993.
"On arbitrary interpretation in Spanish", Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Clemson University, South Carolina, October, 1993.
"On the misbehavior of Bare Nouns", XXIV Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, USC and UCLA, March, 1994.
"Clitic Left-dislocation in Spanish", Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, University of Tennessee, October, 1994.
"Anticipating Modern Linguistics: Sanctius' Minerva", 48th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1995.
"Focus Preposing (it is called)", Workshop on Focus, University of Massachusetts, December, 1995.
"Acquiring Communicative Competence in Spanish: the Role of Information Structure", 7th Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September, 1996.
"On Topical Phrases in Spanish", VII Coloquio de Gramática Generativa, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, April 1997.
"Syntactic and Information Structures in Spanish", 47th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, East Carolina University, October 1997.
"Preverbal Subjects vs. Dislocated Phrases", 1 Coloquio de Lingüística Hispánica, Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, October 1997.
"The Syntax and Pragmatics of Preverbal Phrases in Spanish", Linguistics Program Colloquium, Wayne State University, December, 1997.
"On the Left Periphery in Spanish: a syntactic and pragmatic view", Linguistics Department Colloqium, Michigan State University, March, 1998.
"On Focus-Background Structures", 51st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1998.
"Notes on the Topic-Focus Articulation", Second Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Ohio State University, October 1998.
"El tratamiento del orden de palabras en algunas gramáticas españolas de los siglos XIX y XX", Segundo Congreso de Historiografía Lingüística Española, University of Oviedo, April, 1999.
"Sobre el orden de palabras en español", 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1999.
"On the Topicalizing Nature of Multiple Left-dislocations", Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 2000.
"Los infinitivos con sujetos léxicos en español", Symposium on Hispanic Linguistics in honor of Juan Zamora, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, March 2000.
"The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface", MLA, Washington December 2000.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of English Language, The English Center, Avilés (Spain), 1987-88
Instructor of English Language, Colegio Estilo, Avilés (Spain), 1990-91
Teaching Associate in Spanish, University of Massachusetts, 1991-1997.
Courses taught:
S110 (Elementary Spanish I)
S120 (Elementary Spanish II)
S230 (Intermediate Spanish I)
S240 (Intermediate Spanish II)
S311 (Advanced Grammar)
S470 (General View of Hispanic Linguistics)
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 1997-
Courses taught:
SPA 1020 (Elementary Spanish II)
SPA 2010 (Intermediate Spanish)
SPA 3100 (Intermediate Grammar)
SPA 3200 (Spanish Conversation)
SPA 5200 (Spanish Phonetics and Phonology)
SPA 5300 (Advanced Grammar and Stylistics)
SPA 6400 (Structure of Spanish)
SPA 7510 (History of the Spanish Language)
SPA/FRE/ITA 7300 (Romance Philology)
Personal Background
I was born in Gijón, a beautiful city in Asturias (Spain) in the summer of 1965. Although my parents are from Asturias, they were living in Madrid at the time, and I spent my first five years there with my older brother and my sister. In 1970, we all moved back to Asturias. In particular to Avilés, a city which, in addition to a well-known pollution problem, has a much less known beautiful old downtown. In this city, my younger brother was born in 1971 and it is where my parents still live. Most of my life has taken place in Avilés. There, I went to public school and I studied violin and piano at the school of music, where my father taught for many years. From 1983 to 1988, I studied English Philology at the Univerity of Oviedo. Even though I enjoyed literature, my fascination for linguistics grew during this time, and I applied for and received an ECC Erasmus one-year grant to study Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. During 89-90, I was back in Asturias taking all the graduate courses required for the PhD program in English Philology at the University of Oviedo. In 1991, I was selected to participate in a one year exchange program that exists between the University of Oviedo and the University of Massachusetts, and I came to the States to study Linguistics. I decided to stay and start a Ph.D. at this University. I spent 6 wonderful years at the University of Massachusetts where I got my Ph.D. in May 1997. In August 1997, I joined the faculty of the Romance languages department at Wayne State University, a great place which you can check out right here. If you want to have fun and learn a little bit about linguistics, check also the Linguistics Program Page at Wayne, and the Linguist List.
Useful Sites
Newspapers from Spain:
El País, El Mundo, ABC
Live Radio:
Onda Cero , Radio Nacional, Cadena Ser, La Cope, MIT list of Radios on the Net
Spanish TV
Radiotelevisión Española
Organizations:
Instituto Cervantes,Biblioteca Nacional, Real Academia Española
Latino Web, LatinAmerican Network, Recursos Españoles de Internet
Museums:
Museos Guggenheim, Museo del Prado, Picasso
Language and Linguistics:
Spanish Language Resources, Página del Castellano , La Lengua Española
Diccionario Anaya
Asturian Language, Semanariu electrónicu asturianu
Linguistics Materials on the Web
Linguist List
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