Former Members

Luis López

Professor of Hispanic linguistics
Former Director of the Bilingualism Research Laboratory

E-mail: luislope@uic.edu

Dr. López’s website 

Professor López training was in theoretical linguistics, especially syntax and morphology, within a broad generative framework. While maintaining this broad interest, he is also working on code-switching as a laboratory for linguistic theory and the theory of bilingual grammar generally. Fruit of this project is the monograph Bilingual Grammar, with Cambridge University Press.

He is currently pursuing his interest in code-switching in three separate collaborative projects involving Carmen Parafita and her students in Leiden together with Irati de Nicolás and José Sequeros. These projects involve dependencies in code-switching, bare nouns and idiom interpretation.

Jose Sequeros-Valle

E-mail: jseque3@uic.edu

Jose’s website 

Jose’s interests include the interface between grammar and pragmatics, both 1) its theoretical aspects, and 2) its implications for bilingualism. Specifically, Jose is interested in the interaction between information structure and syntax, and between information structure and intonation. He is currently investigating the interface among those three sub-systems using Spanish left dislocations as his test case.

Irati de Nicolas

E-mail: idenic2@uic.edu

Irati is interested in bilingualism, code switching and syntax. Specifically, she is interested in code switching between nouns and adjectives in Basque/ Spanish code switched DPs, nominalizations in Basque and case assignment in Basque. Irati graduated from the University of Deusto (Spain) and she completed her M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at UIC.

Rodrigo Delgado

Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E-mail: rdelga21@illinois.edu

Rodrigo is interested in Spanish gender in the determiner phrase among Spanish – English bilinguals. His work uses experimental methods such as acceptability judgment tasks and naming tasks, while taking code-switched Spanish – English determiner phrases as a test case (e.g., La table, the mesa).

Cecilia Solís-Barroso

E-mail: scecilia@umich.edu

Cecilia is a Linguistics PhD student at the University of Michigan. She is interested in Spanish-English bilingualism, the syntax-semantics interface and research methodologies. Cecilia is particularly interested in investigating Spanish-English heritage speakers in the Chicagoland area. Her research includes quantification, ellipsis, code-switching, language dominance and language attitudes. Cecilia received her B.A in Teaching of Spanish and M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught Heritage Spanish, Spanish as a Second Language and Spanish Linguistics.

Carmen Thom
Undergraduate student

Carmen is a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research awardee whose research interests are syntax, intrasentential code switching, and computational linguistics. She is currently pursuing a Dual-Degree BS in Computer Science + Linguistics and Mathematics at UIC.

Email: rthom27@uic.edu