People

Dr. Kate Bove is an associate professor in the Languages and Linguistics department at NMSU. She loves studying language contact, and she does the majority of her work from a semantics or semantic interface (pragmatics, syntax) framework. However, she has dabbled in other areas such as corpus linguistics, perceptual dialectology, as well as other areas, especially those that are of interest to her students. She works mainly with Yucatec Spanish and English/Spanish contact along the New Mexico/Texas- Mexico border.

Student Researchers:

Marhec Arreola

Marhec Arreola was an undergraduate research assistant in Spring 2024. She was essential in the process of organizing, editing, and standardizing the interview data for the corpus. Marhec also wrote a piece Life Interviews as an independent study in Spring 2024 for her linguistics major (see projects page for links to presentations/publications).

Elizabeth Zavala

Elizabeth Zavala started with the project as an undergraduate NMSU Discovery Scholar in 2019. She collected several interviews during her time with the project. She continued working on this project through her M.A. program as well, presenting at the LLL symposium (see projects page for links to presentations/publications).

Samuel Johnson was one of the first participants in this corpus project. He conducted interviews and used the data to present on Spanglish/language ideologies as well as vowel reduction (see projects page for links to presentations/publications).

Sam graduated from the M.A. program in Spanish at NMSU is 2020. He is currently working as an adjunct teaching Spanish at NMSU and as an ESL instructor for refugees at Lutheran Family Services. He plans on pursuing a PhD in linguistics.

Sarah Walker completed both her B.A. and M.A. in the department of Spanish at NMSU with a focus on linguistics. While her research interests vary, she completed a thesis focusing on English preposition use along the U.S./Mexico border (see projects page for links to presentations/publications).