Research Summary

Omar Velázquez-Mendoza is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics. He specializes in the history of Ibero-Romance and the acquisition of advanced literacy in first and second languages. Professor Velázquez-Mendoza is assistant researcher for Madrid's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, as well as for the bi-national (US-Mexico) project entitled Corpus del Lenguaje Académico en Español (CLAE): http://lenguajeacademico.info. 

His most recent publications center upon linguistic variation in Late Latin and Early Romance (Castilian, Leonese, and Portuguese), the consolidation of verb-object in Hispano-Romance, and the sociolinguistic milieu pertaining to the writing practices of the Iberian notaries of the High Middle Ages (eighth to thirteenth century). 

Professor Velázquez-Mendoza's books explore: (a) The historical development of (in)animate direct object marking in Ibero-Romance; and (b) Word order patterns of eighth-century Castilian, Leonese, and Portuguese.

Education

Ph.D., University of California (Davis)

M.A., University of California (Davis)

B.A., California State University (Stanislaus)

Publications

Books

El siglo VIII luso-hispanorrománico y su tipología sintáctica. Forthcoming in the Prosopopeya Monograph Series of Tirant Humanidades (Spain).

Estudio de morfosintaxis histórica: orígenes primitivos y desarrollo del complemento directo preposicional en iberorromance centronorteño y lusitano (Université de Neuchâtel's Diachronica Hispanica Monograph Series). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch (2019).

Articles

“Spanish-Language Advancedness: Grammatical Metaphor and the Oral-Written Continuum”. Forthcoming in Menke, M. & Malovrh, P. (edd.), Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, Challenges, and Possibilities (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

“Evidence for an Underlying Ibero-Romance Vernacular: The Nodicia de kesos vis-à-vis Its Corresponding Notarial Act”. Forthcoming in Gerli, M. & Giles, R. (edd.), The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity. New York: Routledge. 

“Tipología sintáctica y expresión de la posesión sustantival en los textos luso-hispanorrománicos del siglo VIII”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97(3), pp. 227–249 (2020).

“A Rrapun e Sango páscanlos: la consolidación definitiva del cambio OV > VO en hispanorromance”. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 134(3), 688-709 (2018).

“A propósito de los patrones VO y OV en los documentos notariales emilianenses del siglo VIII y el Diploma del rey Silo”. Aemilianense 4, 557-590 (2016). 

“Oralidad, latinización textual y convivencia de variantes ortográficas en iberorromance”. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 93(5), 739-765 (2016).

“The Role of Grammatical Metaphor in the Development of Advanced Literacy in Spanish as a First, Second, and Heritage Language”. Functional Linguistics 2(7), 1-13 (2015).

“La disciplina de la lingüística y el carácter coloquial del género pregunta-respuesta según el Corpus del Lenguaje Académico en Español (CLAE)”. In Ignatieva, N. & Colombi, M. C. (edd.), CLAE: El lenguaje académico en México y los Estados Unidos: un análisis sistémico funcional. México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 221-237 (2014).

“La España altomedieval y su continuo sociolingüístico: ¿sociedad diglósica o monolingüe?”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 90(6), 627-648 (2013).

“Latín y romance en la Iberia del Medievo tardío y el complemento directo preposicional”. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie  129(1), 115-127 (2013).

“Seruire a: orígenes primitivos de la a personal” (with Robert J. Blake). In Montero Cartelle, E. (ed.), Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española. Santiago de Compostela: Meubook, 683-694 (2012).

“Temprana marcación acusativa en el hispanorromance” (with Robert J. Blake). Romance Philology 64(2), 285-294 (2010).

“Spanish Personal a and the Antidative” (with Raúl Aranovich). In Leow, R., Campos, H. & Lardiere, D. (edd.), Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 109-118 (2009).

Reviews

Lexicogénesis del léxico filosófico español en el Siglo de las Luces, by Elena Carpi. Dieciocho 41(1), 173 (2018).

Ramón Menéndez Pidal: The Practice and Politics of Philology in Twentieth-Century Spain, by Steven Hess. La corónica 44(2), 139-140 (2016).

Grants & Awards

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences—Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts and Sciences & Vice President for Research, University of Virginia (2018).

Summer Research Stipend—College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia (2017)

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences—Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Virginia (2015).

Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences—Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Virginia (2013).

Excellence in Teaching—Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California (Davis) (2010).