CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Rivas Rodríguez, José Javier Work Address: Department of Spanish and Portuguese - University of Colorado McKenna Languages Building 278 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 Office Phone: 303-492-6268 E-mail: [email protected]

A. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1. 2003. Ph.D.: Blowing Up Ziggurats: The Quest for the Universals of Syntax. Universidade de (). Major field of concentration: Linguistics. 2. 1999. M.A. Thesis: A Non-Discrete Approach to the Accusative and Infinitive Construction: The View of Linguistic Typology. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Major field of concentration: Linguistics. 3. 1997. B.A. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). English language and literature.

B. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1. Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO) since August 2014. 2. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), from August 2007 to May 2014. 3. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. East Carolina University (Greenville, NC), from August 2003 to May 2007. 4. Lecturer of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), from September 2002 to May 2003. 5. Teaching Assistant, Linguistic Typology. Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), in Spring 2002.

C. GRANTS/AWARDS/HONORS

1. Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Grant, conferred by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder. Title of the project: “Galician Inflected Infinitives in Time Clauses: A Usage-Based Approach.” Research carried out at Instituto da Lingua Galega, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from July 8 to July 19, 2019. Amount awarded: $3000. 2. Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Grant, conferred by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder. Title of the project: “A Usage-Based Analysis of the

1 Galician Inflected Infinitive in Purpose Clauses.” Research carried out at Instituto da Lingua Galega, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from July 1 to July 15, 2017. Amount awarded: $3000. 3. Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Award, conferred by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder to present the paper “A usage-based approach to psychological constructions with dar ‘give’” at KFL: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, April 23-25, 2015). 4. Sabbatical Research Semester, Spring 2015, conferred by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado (Boulder). Research project title: “A Usage-Based Approach to Indirect Objects in Spanish: A Corpus-Based Study of Language Variation.” 5. Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Award, conferred by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado (Boulder) to present the paper “Usage-based approaches and Galician linguistics: an example with Aí o vén and similar constructions” at (Re)mapping Galician Studies in North America: A Breakthrough Symposium (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, May 2-3, 2014). 6. Dean’s Fund for Excellence Award, conferred by College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO) to present the paper “Syntactic variation in the complementation pattern of obligar ‘force’ and similar verbs of influence” at 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (University of Arizona, Tucson, AR, April 12-14, 2012). 7. College Research Award for the Spring of 2007, conferred by Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC). Title of the project: “Word Order Type and Relational Type: Towards a Comprehensive Syntactic Typology.” 8. Predoctoral Scholarship from October 1, 1999 to March 31, 2002, conferred by Xunta de (Spain). 9. Doctoral Studies Scholarship from October 1, 1997 to September 30, 1999, conferred by Xunta de Galicia and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). 10. Collaboration Scholarship in the Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and General Linguistics (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) during the academic year 1996-1997, conferred by the Ministry of Education and Science (Spain). 11. Erasmus Program Scholarship from September 1995 to June 1996, fourth academic year of B.A. in English Language and Literature at University of Manchester ().

D. RESEARCH WORKS

(An * in front of the publication indicates that the work was peer-reviewed) (Co-authored works are cited in the order in which authors appear. However, the order does not reflect relative contribution. All authors have contributed equally to all works) a) Publications (books) 1. *Rivas, Javier. 2004. Clause structure typology: grammatical relations in cross-linguistic perspective. : Tris Tram. Reviews by W. Schulze in E-language (05/16/2010: http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=500) and by C. Hagège in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de 105/2 (2010): 26-34.

2 2. *Rivas, Javier. 2000. Ergativity and transitive gradients in the accusative and infinitive construction. A cross-linguistic typological approach. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. Reviews by G. Lazard in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 96/2 (2001): 79-80, by O. Fischer in Linguistics 40/6 (2002): 1251- 1256, and by L. Rolfe in Word 53/2 (2002): 260-263. b) Publications (articles in journals) 1. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2021. “O infinitivo flexionado en galego: unha análise variacionista baseada na lingua oral” Estudos de Lingüística Galega 13, accepted for publication. 2. *Brown, Esther & Javier Rivas. 2019. “Bringing purported black sheep into the fold: Galician inflected infinitives and Spanish pre-infinitival nominative subjects” Languages 4/40: doi:10.3390/languages4020040. 3. *Rivas, Javier, Esther Brown and Mayra Cortés-Torres. 2018. “Variable subject pronominal expression in non-finite clauses: implications for variant patterns and emergent contexts.” Lingua. An International Review of General Linguistics 215: 27-39. 4. *Rivas, Javier. 2018. “Immediacy, counter-expectation, and grammatical marking: intransitive constructions with an accusative clitic in Galician/Galego.” Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 11/2: 367-393. 5. *Rivas, Javier 2016. “Verb-object compounds with Spanish dar ‘give’: An emergent gustar ‘like’ – type construction. WORD. A Journal of the International Linguistics Association 62/1: 1- 21. 6. *Sánchez-Ayala, Ivo and Javier Rivas 2015. “Null direct objects in Spanish conversation.” Hispanic Research Journal 16/2: 107-126. 7. *Rivas, Javier 2013. “Variable subject position in main and subordinate clauses in Spanish: a usage-based approach.” Moenia. Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura 19: 97-113. 8. *Rivas, Javier 2013. "A usage-based analysis of morphosyntactic variation in the complementation of manipulative verbs." Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana XI/1: 155-171. 9. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2012. “Concordancia variable con haber en español puertorriqueño.” Boletín de Lingüística XXIV/37-38: 102-118. 10. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2012. "Stage-level and individual-level distinction in morphological variation: an example with variable haber agreement." Borealis. An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 1/2: 73-90. 11. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. 2012. "Grammatical relation probability: how usage patterns shape analogy." Language Variation and Change 24/3: 317-341. 12. *Rivas, Javier. 2011 “‘Como no me trago el humo...:’ a corpus-based approach to aspectual se.” Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4/2: 379-416. 13. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2011. “Correlaciones entre forma y función en las construcciones interrogativas parciales del español de Puerto Rico.” Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de 25: 289-315.

3 14. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. 2011. “Subject–verb word-order in Spanish interrogatives: a quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish” Spanish in Context 8/1: 23-49. 15. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2010. “Las interrogativas hendidas en español: ¿cómo es que se usan?” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 29/2: 75-95. 16. *López Rivera, Juan J. and Javier Rivas. 2009. “Lenguaje, representación y tipología en la obra de Ángel Amor Ruibal.” Moenia. Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura 15: 83-107. 17. *Rivas, Javier. 2008. “La posición del sujeto en las construcciones monoactanciales del español: una aproximación funcional.” Hispania 91/4: 897-912. 18. *D’Introno, Francesco, Verónica González and Javier Rivas. 2007. “Aspectos sintácticos y semánticos del pronombre se.” Boletín de Lingüística XIX/28: 5-25. 19. *Rivas, Javier. 2006. “Iconicity and diachronic change: two processes in conspiracy or in competition?” Southern Journal of Linguistics 28/1-2: 16-33. 20. *Rivas, Javier. 2000. “The position of subject clauses in the history of English.” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 21: 87-112. c) Publications (book chapters) 1. *Rivas, Javier. 2016. “Gramática funcional.” In Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach ed. Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica. Vol. 1. /New York: Routledge, 127-137. 2. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2010. “Variable development of intersubjectivity in Spanish.” In Aquilino Sánchez and Moisés Almela eds. A Mosaic of Corpus Linguistics. Selected Approaches. : Peter Lang, 61-78. 3. *Rivas, Javier. 2002. “Complementos directos periféricos.” In Ramón Lorenzo ed. Homenaxe a Fernando R. Tato Plaza. Univ. de Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións, 255-266. d) Publications (articles in conference proceedings) 1. Rivas, Javier and Ivo Sánchez-Ayala. 2012. "Procesos de gramaticalización en el desarrollo de las aportaciones reactivas: el caso de efectivamente." In Emilio Montero Cartelle and Carmen Manzano Rovira eds. Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española. Santiago de Compostela 14-18 de Septiembre de 2009. Santiago de Compostela: Meubook, 2363-2374. 2. Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2009. “No sé as a discourse marker in Spanish: a corpus- based approach to a cross-dialectal comparison.” In Pascual Cantos Gómez and Aquilino Sánchez Pérez eds. A Survey on Corpus-Based Research. Panorama de investigaciones basadas en corpus. : AELINCO, 631-645. 3. Rivas, Javier. 2006. “The pragmatic motivation of ergativity: a prototype analysis.” In Montserrat López Díaz and María Montes López eds. Perspectives Fonctionnelles: Emprunts, Économie et Variation dans les Langues. Lugo: Axac, 453-458. 4. Rivas, Javier. 2002. “Ergatividad y gradaciones transitivas en la construcción de acusativo con infinitivo.” In María Dolores Muñoz Núñez, Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Piñero Alcalá, Gérard Fernández Smith and Victoria Benítez Soto eds. IV Congreso de Lingüística General. Volumen IV. Comunicaciones. Universidad de Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2213-2224.

4 e) Publications (reviews) 1. Rivas, Javier. 2019. “Reseña de Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics.” CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas 11/14: 187-189. 2. Rivas, Javier. 2018. “Review of Bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach.” Lingua 209: 105-111. 3. Rivas, Javier. 2015. “Aportaciones al estudio del español de desde la teoría lingüística actual. Reseña de Colombian varieties of Spanish.” Confluencia. Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 30/2: 190-193. 4. Rivas, Javier. 2009. “Reseña de El boom de la lengua española. Análisis ideológico de un proceso expansivo.” Hispania 92/1: 82-83. 5. Rivas, Javier. 2008. “¿Abutarda o avutarda?: Normas ortográficas del español. Reseña de Ortografía normativa del español. Vol. I and Cuaderno de ejercicios. Vol. II. 4th ed.” Confluencia. Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 24/1: 188-191. 6. Rivas, Javier. 2007. “Review of Las lenguas y sus escrituras. Tipología, evolución e ideología.” Southern Journal of Linguistics 31/2: 62-67. f) Works in progress 1. *Rivas, Javier. 2020. “Ser, estar y los verbos semicopulativos.” In Guillermo Rojo, Victoria Vázquez Rozas y Rena Torres Cacoullos eds. Sintaxis del español. The Routledge handbook of Spanish syntax. Oxford: Taylor and Francis Group. Final version submitted for consideration. 2. Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. “Word-bigram variants stored in memory: Gradient acoustic reduction of Spanish es decir” (being written). g) Presentations 1. *Rivas, Javier. “[Haber estado + VNDO] and [llevar + VNDO] as markers of inclusive aspect: a variationist study of Peninsular Spanish” accepted for presentation at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, April 22-24, 2021, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY. 2. *Rivas, Javier. “Verbo-objeto indirecto-objeto directo y verbo-objeto directo-objeto indirecto: un análisis variacionista del español oral.” III Jornadas Internacionales de Investigación Lingüística José Joaquín Montes Giraldo, November 17-20, 2020, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia. 3. Rivas, Javier. “A usage-based approach to inflected infinitives: a contrastive analysis of Galician and Portuguese.” 7th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, November 8-9, 2019. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin, Madison. Milwaukee, WI (keynote speaker). 4. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. “Phonetic gradience and grammaticalization in the Spanish construction es decir.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2019, 24-26 October 2019, University of Texas, El Paso, TX. 5. *Rivas, Javier. “Y le regalaba los más secos a mis amigas: Variable Number Agreement in Spanish Indirect Object Duplication.” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, April 11-13, 2019, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY.

5 6. *Brown, Esther & Javier Rivas. “Subjects in non-finite clauses” 13th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference. November 9-11, 2018. University of New , Albuquerque. 7. *Brown, Esther & Javier Rivas. “A quantitative variationist analysis of Galician inflected infinitives.” Galician Studies Moving West. Galician Language and Culture at the Crossroads. III North American Symposium of Galician Studies. October 18-20, 2018. , CO. 8. * Rivas, Javier. “A lingüística galega na encrucillada.” Contribution to the Round Table Galician Linguistics at the Crossroads. Galician Studies Moving West. Galician Language and Culture at the Crossroads. III North American Symposium of Galician Studies. October 18-20, 2018. Denver, CO. 9. Rivas, Javier. “El papel de la frecuencia en procesos de gramaticalización avanzada: la concordancia objetiva en español.” Faculty Research Presentations Series. September 27, 2018. Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado, Boulder [Invited talk]. 10. Rivas, Javier. "La metodología variacionista aplicada a los procesos de variación y cambio sintácticos." Advanced Course: Los fundamentos cognitivos de la variación gramatical. November 7-9, 2017. Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de , Spain [Invited talk]. 11. Rivas, Javier. “Procesos de variación y cambio en el objeto indirecto en español.” Advanced Course: Los fundamentos cognitivos de la variación gramatical. November 7-9, 2017. Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain [Invited talk]. 12. *Rivas, Javier. “Preverbal and postverbal subjects in Spanish subordinate clauses: a variationist approach.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XLVI. October 5-7, 2017. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. 13. Rivas, Javier. “A construción [deíctico locativo – clítico acusativo – verbo intransitivo] do galego (alí a estaba, aí os veñen): unha análise baseada no uso”. Instituto da Lingua Galega, July 14, 2017. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain [Invited talk]. 14. Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. “Variable subject expression in non-finite clauses: a usage- based approach to Puerto Rican conversation.” Spanish and Portuguese Department Internal Colloquium. April 18, 2017. University of Colorado, Boulder [Invited talk]. 15. Rivas, Javier. “El objeto indirecto en español: una aproximación basada en el uso.” Perspectives in Latin American and Peninsular Linguistics and Literature. 2nd Annual Graduate Colloquium FLLC, March 25, 2016. Central Michigan University, MI. [Plenary talk]. 16. *Brown, Esther L., Mayra Cortés-Torres and Javier Rivas. “Cállate un rato para yo hablar: Pre-verbal subject expression in Spanish prepositional infinitival clauses.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44, October 22-25, 2015. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 17. *Rivas, Javier. “A usage-based approach to psychological constructions with dar ´give´.” KFLC: The languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, April 23-25, 2015, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY. 18. *Rivas, Javier. “Características discursivas del llamado sujeto dativo: un estudio basado en la expresión variable del objeto indirecto preposicional con verbos del tipo gustar.” XLIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, January 27-30, 2015, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC, (Spain).

6 19. *Rivas, Javier. “Usage-based approaches and Galician linguistics: an example with aí o vén and similar constructions.” (Re)mapping Galician Studies in North America: A Breakthrough Symposium, May 2-3, 2014, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI. 20. *Rivas, Javier. “Present vs. present perfect in continuative situations: a usage-based analysis” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, April 10-12, 2014, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY. 21. *Rivas, Javier. “A discourse approach to Spanish indirect objects based on the theory of preferred argument structure.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XLII. September 26-28, 2013. The College of New Jersey and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. New Brunswick, NJ. 22. *Bailey, Adriana and Javier Rivas. “How grammatical choice shapes media representations of climate (un)certainty.” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future. June 8-13, 2013. Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby, CO. 23. Rivas, Javier. “Evidentiality in Spanish: the case of perception verbs with the accusative and infinitive construction.” The Linguistics Circle. March 18, 2013. Linguistics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO [Invited talk]. 24. *Rivas, Javier. "Variable subject position in subordinate clauses: a corpus-based approach to time clauses in spoken Spanish." 62nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. October 18-20, 2012. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. 25. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. "From flexible to fixed SVO order in Spanish: evidence from oral corpora." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Sixty-Sixth Annual Convention. October 11-13, 2012. Boulder, CO. 26. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. "The role of grammatical relation probabilities in the spread of language change: an example with Spanish existential haber 'there (be)'.” Manchester Symposium on Existentials. June 28-29, 2012. The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 27. *Rivas, Javier. “Syntactic variation in the complementation pattern of obligar ‘force’ and similar verbs of influence in Spanish.” 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS6). April 12-14, 2012. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AR. 28. *Rivas, Javier. “Me encanta la historia vs. a mí me encanta la historia: variable expression of indirect objects in Spanish.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XL. September 29, 2011-October 2, 2011. The University of Texas at Brownsville, South Padre Island, TX. 29. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. “Variable haber agreement in Puerto Rican Spanish.” Spanish in the US / Spanish in Contact with Other Languages Conference. March 17-20, 2011. University of California, Sacramento, CA. 30. *Rivas, Javier. “The NP + infinitive construction with perception verbs in Spanish: a discourse-functional approach.” High Desert Linguistics Society 9. November, 4-6, 2010. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 31. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. “Patterns of information questions in Puerto Rican Spanish: form and function correlations.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XXXIX. October 7-9, 2010. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

7 32. *Sánchez, Ivo and Javier Rivas. 2009. “The independent NP + relative clause format in Spanish conversation.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XXXVIII. September 25-26, 2009. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 33. *Rivas, Javier and Ivo Sánchez. 2009. “Procesos de gramaticalización en el desarrollo de las aportaciones reactivas: el caso de efectivamente.” VIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española. September 14-18, 2009. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 34. *Rivas, Javier and Esther Brown. 2009. “No sé as a discourse marker in Spanish: a corpus- based approach to a cross-dialectal comparison.” 1st International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. May 7-9, 2009. Universidad de Murcia, Spain. 35. *Rivas, Javier. 2009. “Indirect objects in Spanish: evidence from conversation.” 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 16-18, 2009. Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 36. *Brown, Esther and Javier Rivas. 2008. “¿Qué tú piensas? A quantitative analysis of non- inverted questions in Puerto Rican Spanish.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XXXVII. October 17-19, 2008. State University, Corvallis, OR. 37. *Rivas, Javier. 2008. “Word order variation in possessive constructions in Spanish.” 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 17-19, 2008. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 38. *Rivas, Javier. 2007. “Subject and word order variation: evidence from Spanish conversation.” 37th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society. November 10, 2007. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. 39. *Rivas, Javier. 2007. “Transitivizing se in Iberian Spanish: a corpus-based approach.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 19-21, 2007. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 40. Rivas, Javier. 2006. “Subject-verb and verb-subject word orders in intransitive clauses: a functional-typological approach.” The Linguistic Circle Colloquia Series. December 1, 2006. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC [Invited talk]. 41. *Sánchez, Ivo and Javier Rivas. 2006. “When objects aren’t there: argument structure in Spanish conversation.” 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 20-22, 2006. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 42. García Lenza, Ana, Juan José López Rivera and Javier Rivas. 2005. “Amor Ruibal ou cando a Historia da lingüística debe unha recuperación necesaria (I) e (II).” Simposio Internacional sobre a Obra Filolóxico-Lingüística de Ángel Amor Ruibal (1869-1930). 15, 16 e 17 de Decembro de 2005. Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) [Invited talk]. 43. *Rivas, Javier. 2005. “Verb + NP + infinitive in English and Spanish: a non-discrete approach.” 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April, 21-23, 2005. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 44. *Rivas, Javier. 2004. “The pragmatic motivation of ergativity: a prototype analysis.” XXVIIIème Colloque International de Linguistique Fonctionnelle. September 20-26, 2004. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela-Lugo (Spain).

8 45. *Rivas, Javier. 2004. “Construcciones monoactanciales verbo-sujeto en español: una aproximación funcional.” 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 15-17, 2004. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 46. *Rivas, Javier. 2004. “Degrees of activity in Galician, an Ibero-Romance language.” UNC Spring Linguistics Colloquium. March 27, 2004. University of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. 47. *Rivas, Javier. 2003. “Castilian and Galician: conflicts and policies in the classroom.” 56th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. October 9-11, 2003. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. 48. *González, Verónica and Javier Rivas. 2003. “Evaluating pronunciation in a Spanish phonetics course.” 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April, 24-26, 2003. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 49. *D’Introno, Francesco, Verónica González and Javier Rivas. 2003. “Aspects of the syntax and semantics of se.” 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April, 24-26, 2003. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 50. *Rivas, Javier. 2000. “Ergatividad y gradaciones transitivas en la construcción de acusativo con infinitivo.” IV Congreso de Lingüística General. April, 3-6, 2000. Universidad de Cádiz (Spain).

E. TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1. Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado a) Courses taught SPAN 2110 Second Year Spanish I (Summer 2016, 2018, 2019) SPAN 3000 Advanced Language Skills (Summer 2014) SPAN 3050 Spanish Phonology and Phonetics (Fall 2007-2010, 2012-2015, 2019, 2020; Spring 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017-2021, Summer 2012, 2014, 2015) SPAN 3120 Advanced Spanish Grammar (Fall 2011) SPAN 3150 Linguistic Analyses of Spanish (Spring 2008; Spring 2011-2014) SPAN 4215 Spanish in the (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Summer 2020) SPAN 4430 Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English Grammars (Spring 2010, 2011, 2013) SPAN 4430 Spanish in the United States (Spring 2014) SPAN 4430 Varieties of Spoken Spanish (Spring 2017) SPAN 4450/5450 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (Fall 2007, 2008, Spring 2020-2021) SPAN 5410 Spanish Syntax: Argument Structure & Transitivity (Spring 2008; Fall 2010, 2012) SPAN 5430 Mechanisms of Morphosyntactic Change (Fall 2011) SPAN 5440/7440 Recent and Current Changes in Spanish Morphosyntax (Fall 2009) SPAN 5440/7440 Grammaticalization (Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2017) SPAN 5440/7440 Usage-based approaches to Spanish morphosyntax (Fall 2014) SPAN 5440/7440 Spanish Discourse Syntax (Fall 2016) SPAN 5440/7440 Spanish and English in Contact in the United States (Fall 2018) SPAN 5440/7440 Usage-based Approaches to Spanish Word Order (Fall 2019) SPAN 5440/7440 Usage-based Approaches to Morphosyntactic Change in Spanish (Fall 2020)

9 b) Independent studies 1. Co-supervisor (with Esther Brown) of the Independent Study “Spanish Phonology and Phonetics.” Student: Michael Wilson (Undergraduate Student from the Spanish and Portuguese Department) in Maymester 2010. 2. Supervisor of the Independent Study “A Functional and Discourse Approach to Basque Morphosyntax.” Student: Leire Alberdi Lucas (MA Student from the Linguistics Department) in Spring 2009. c) Dissertation Committees 1. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Jesús Villalpando, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: December 3, 2019. 2. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Stefanie Ramos Bierge, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: May 3, 2017. 3. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Antonio E. Rodríguez, Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Education. Dissertation Defense: April 6, 2017. 4. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Nicholas J. Williams, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: May 27, 2016. 5. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Kevin M. Gould, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: February 3, 2015. 6. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Sean D. Allison, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: May 16, 2012. 7. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Jessica A. Sams, Ph. D. Candidate in Linguistics. Dissertation Defense: May 5, 2008. d) M.A. Examination Committees 1. Principal advisor and Chair of Masters Examination Committees for Alejandro Méndez- Betancor, Shauna Polson, and Pablo Sierra Bermejo in Spring 2010; Bryana Madison-Gardunia, Jordan Kober and Berivan Sart in Spring 2012; Paola Alani, Emily Everett and Jorge Martínez- Guillem in Spring 2013; Monique Mitchell in Spring 2014; Abigail Larson and Desirée Ramírez Urbaneja in Spring 2015; Jessika Muñoz in Spring 2016; Norberto Cardenales in Spring 2018, and Lori Graham in Spring 2019, MA Candidates in Spanish Linguistics. 2. Member of Masters Examination Committees for Antonio Naula-Rodríguez in Fall 2007; Adrianne M. Fillerup and Giannina Guardia in Fall 2008; Verónica Chávez in Spring 2010; Devin Grammon and Hayley Berg in Spring 2012; Kelly Cramer, Jonathan Steuck and Alexander McCallister in Spring 2013; Meredith Butterton in Spring 2014; Tara Gilboa in Summer 2014, Bridget McFadden in Spring 2016; Helen Satchwell, Elizabeth Fisher, and Raquel Laredo Varelo in Spring 2017; Natalia Álvarez and Elizabeth Nolder in Spring 2018; Edith Aldaba-Valdez and Rebecca Rico in Spring 2019, and Kelsey Treviño in Spring 2020, MA Candidates in Spanish Linguistics. e) Honors Theses 1. Member of the Honors Thesis Committee for Remington A. Ruyle, Spanish and Portuguese Department. Defense: April 3, 2020.

10 2. Member of the Honors Thesis Committee for Eleanor Hodgson, Spanish and Portuguese Department. Defense: November 5, 2019. 3. Principal Advisor for the Undergraduate Spanish Honors Thesis titled “Grados de transitividad en español conversacional.” Author: Mary E. Rauch. Defense date: April 3, 2009. Grade: Magna Cum Laude.

2. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, East Carolina University

Courses taught SPAN 1002 Spanish Level II (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006) SPAN 1004 Spanish Level IV (Fall 2003, Spring 2004) SPAN 2330 Intermediate Composition and Review of Grammar (Fall 2006) SPAN 3225 Spanish Phonetics (Spring 2004-2006) SPAN 3335 Structure of the Language (Fall 2003-2006) SPAN 6000 Advanced Language Skills (Fall 2003) SPAN 6001 Advanced Language Skills II (Spring 2004)

3. Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Massachusetts

Courses taught SPAN 378 Spanish Phonetics (Fall 2002, Spring 2003) SPAN 470 General View of Hispanic Linguistics (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)

4. Department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory, and General Linguistics at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Courses taught Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course Linguistic Typology (Spring 2002).

F. SERVICE ACTIVITIES a) Service to Scholarly or Professional Organizations 1. Co-editor of the special issue “Revisiting language variation and change: Looking at metalinguistic categories through a usage-based lens” for the journal Languages (with Esther Brown), Spring and Fall 2020. 2. Participant in the round table “Voice of Marginality” held at Voices of Marginality. Literary and Linguistic Reflections on Cultural Hierarchies in Spanish and Latin America. 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, March 6-7, 2020, University of Colorado, Boulder. 3. Manuscript reviewer for the following scientific journals:  African Educational Research Journal  Folia Linguistica  Heritage Language Journal

11  International Journal of Bilingualism  International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest  Language Variation and Change  Lingua. An International Review of General Linguistics  Onomazéin. Revista semestral de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Facultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de ,  Research in Corpus Linguistics  Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4. Manuscript reviewer for the following edited volumes:  Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish. Book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. John Benjamin Publishing Company  The Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish. Routledge.  Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2017. Book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. John Benjamin Publishing Company. 5. Manuscript reviewer of the following textbooks:  Introducción a las variedades lingüísticas del español, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)  Doble vía: Comunicación en español, Heinle Cengage Learning 6. Abstract reviewer for the following conferences:  Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2019, October 24-26, 2019. University of Texas, El Paso.  8th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, April 13-16, 2016. San Juan, Puerto Rico  47th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of the Southwest, October 11-13, 2018. Provo, UT. 7. Participation in the round table to launch the book Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics. Bridging Frames and Traditions (London/New York: Routledge, 2019). Instituto da Lingua Galega-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. July 22, 2019. 8. External evaluator of the scholarly record of the following candidates to tenure and promotion to Associate Professor:  Professor Irene Checa-García, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, Fall 2017  Professor Damián Vergara Wilson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, Fall 2016.  Professor Íker Zulaica Hernández, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis IN, Fall 2016. 9. Chair/Moderator/Faculty respondent in conference sessions:  Moderator of the session “Linguistic case studies in Caribbean Spanish and heritage speakers” held at Voices of Marginality. Literary and Linguistic Reflections on Cultural Hierarchies in Spanish and Latin America. 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference of

12 the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, March 6-7, 2020, University of Colorado, Boulder.  Faculty respondent of the session “Estructura lingüística y cognición” held at Spheres of Influence: Latin American and Iberian Languages and Cultures in Contact. 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese April 7-8, 2017, University of Colorado, Boulder CO.  Moderator of the session “Language change in Spanish” held at Thinking Across Borders: Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity in Languages and Cultural Production. 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, April 1-2, 2016. University of Colorado, Boulder CO.  Chair of the session “Linguistics I” held at the Annual Graduate Conference “Production and Reception: The Bonds of Interpretative Communities. April 10-11, 2015. Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado. Boulder CO.  Chair of the session “Syntax: The Pronoun and Beyond” held at Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) XLII. September 26-28, 2013. The College of New Jersey and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. New Brunswick, NJ. 10. Member of the Academic Consortium Board (ACB) Evaluation Team of the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange):  Study Center in Buenos Aires, (May 18-23, 2014).  Study Center in Alcalá de Henares, Spain (October 3-8, 2010). b) Service to the Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado 1. Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, since Fall 2019. 2. Member of the Graduate Committee, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, since Fall 2019. 3. Graduate Student Classes Observation and Evaluation, since Spring 2018. 4. Member of the Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for Susan Hallstead’s Reappointment as a Senior Instructor, Fall 2020. 5. Member of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Spanish Applied Linguistics- Heritage Language Specialist, Fall 2019-Spring 2020. 6. Member of the Salary Subcommittee, Fall 2018-Spring 2020. 7. Member of the Executive Committee, Spring 2011, Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2019-Spring 2020. 8. Member of Javier Krauel’s post-tenure review, Spring 2020. 9. Member of the Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for Anne Becher’s Reappointment as Senior Instructor, Fall 2019. 10. Member of the Search Committee for the Spanish Modified Program Instructor, Spring 2019. 11. Member of Peter Elmore’s post-tenure review, Spring 2019. 12. Participation in Round Table “Conference presentations.” Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 31, 2019. 13. Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Fall 2015-Spring 2019.

13 14. Study Abroad Advisor, Fall 2009-Spring 2019. 15. Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2019. 16. Chair of the Recruitment and Retention Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2019. 17. Chair of the Grade Appeals Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009, Spring 2017-Spring 2019. 18. Member of the Coordination Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2019. 19. Participation in Round Table “How to write a dissertation.” October 30, 2018. 20. Member of the Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for Tania Martuscelli, Candidate for Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Spring and Fall 2016. 21. Member of the Reappointment Committee for Instructor María Moreno, Fall 2016. 22. Moderator of the session “Spain: The Demise of the Bipartisan System” held at Spanish- speaking world week, March 7-11, 2016. Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 23. Panelist of the session “El español en los Estados Unidos” held at Spanish-speaking world week, March 7-11, 2016. Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 24. Member of the Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for Juan Herrero-Senés, Candidate for Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Spring and Fall 2015. 25. Member of the Spanish and Portuguese Self-Study Committee for the Arts and Humanities Program Review. 26. Member of the Search Committee for the tenure-track position in Applied Linguistics, Fall 2015 and Spring 2016. 27. Member of the ad hoc Committee to Review the Department´s Undergraduate Tracks, Fall 2014. 28. Member of the ad hoc Committee to write a Hiring Proposal for an Applied Linguistics Position. 29. Member of the ad hoc Committee to Create a Spanish Minor, Spring 2013. 30. Member of the Committee for Antonia Green’s Reappointment as Instructor, Spring 2013. 31. Chair of the Committee for Susan Hallstead’s Reappointment as Senior Instructor, Spring- Fall 2012. 32. Member of the ad hoc Committee to Revise the "Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Policies" Document (Department Bylaws, Appendix), Fall 2011. 33. Member of the Portuguese Search Committee, Fall 2009. 34. Member of the Committee for Susan Hallstead’s Promotion to Senior Instructor, Spring 2009. 35. Member of the Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Subcommittee for the PRP, Fall 2008. 36. Member of the Globalization and Global Initiatives Subcommittee for the PRP, Fall 2008.

14 37. Member of the Internal Colloquia Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009. c) Service to the College of Arts and Sciences and CU-Boulder campus 1. Spanish and Portuguese Honors Council Representative, since Fall 2019. 2. Participant in the Spanish and English conversation exchange, organized by the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the International English Center (November 13 and 27, 2018). 3. Organizer of Prof. Gabriel Rei Doval’s (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) lecture “Language Contact and Language Standardization: The Galician Case” (October 16, 2018). 4. Member of the Associate Chairs of Undergraduate Education Committee (2017) 5. Member of the Appeals Committee on Academic Rules and Policies (2015) d) Service to the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, East Carolina University 1. Member of the Spanish Curriculum Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2007. 2. Secretary of the Resource Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2007. 3. Member of the ad hoc Committee for designing a Masters in Spanish, Fall 2006-Spring 2007. 4. Member of the ad hoc Curriculum Review Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006. 5. Member of the Spanish Coordinator Search Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 and Fall 2005- Spring 2006. 6. Member of the ad hoc Committee for Reassigned Time for Research, Fall 2003-Fall 2004. 7. Member of the Spanish Oral Qualifying Examination, Fall 2003 and Fall 2004. 8. Member of the Pilot Assessment of the Brigham Young University Test for Adoption as the Placement Test at East Carolina University, Fall 2004.

G. OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Course Design Workshop, June 8 to 12, 2020, offered by Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT), University of Colorado, Boulder 2. Online Teaching Workshop: Ideas and Tips for Instructing Language in an Online Environment, March 13, 2020, offered by Anderson Language and Technology Center (ALTEC), University of Colorado, Boulder. 3. Crucial Conversations Training, February 2 and 9, 2018, offered by the Office of Faculty Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder. 4. Introduction to R, February 21, 2018, offered by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder. 5. Critical Thinking Workshop, April 15 and May 25, 2016, offered by Undergraduate Education, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). 6. Social Behavioral Research Investigators and Key Personnel, 4-March-2014, offered online by Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

15 7. Brown Bag on How to Get your Research or Creative Works Funded, 25-February-2014, offered by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). 8. The Study Abroad Faculty Evaluator Worshop, 7-September-2012, offered by the Academic Advising Center and the Study Abroad office, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). 9. Getting to Know Desire2learn, 14-August-2012, offered by the Office of Information Technology, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). 10. Gradebook: Getting the most out of D2L Gradebook, 22-August-2012, offered by the Office of Information Technology, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). 11. Interactional Foundations of Language, 16-17 July 2011, workshop offered in the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Linguistics Department, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), July- August 2011. 12. LING 7800 Interaction and Grammar (July 8-August 2, 2011) and LING 7800 Introduction to Conversation Analysis (July 7-August 1, 2011), courses offered in the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Linguistics Department, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), July-August 2011. 13. On interpreting FCQs, Faculty Teaching Excellence Program, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), September 3, 2010. 14. Introductory Leadership Workshop, Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP), University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), June 8– 10, 2010. 15. Preparing a teaching portfolio, Prof. Deborah Haynes, Faculty Teaching Excellence Program, University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), March 18, 2010. 16. Introduction to Power Point 2007 for Windows, Information Technology Services (ITS), University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), December 4, 2009. 17. CU-Learn for faculty and other instructors, Information Technology Services (ITS), University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), Spring 2008. 18. Peer Classroom Observation Training Session, Center for Faculty Development, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC), September 13, 2006. 19. Creating a Teaching Portfolio Workshop, Center for Faculty Development, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC), October 27-28, 2005. 20. Blackboard Beginning Training Details, Center for Faculty Development, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC), February 17, 2004. 21. Introduction to Scientific English, Institute of Educational Sciences, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), October-November 2000. 22. Certificate of Teaching Aptitude, School of Education, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), April 3, 1998. 23. Certificate of Proficiency in English, Cambridge University (United Kingdom), December 1995. 24. German course (first level), Language Institute, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), academic year 1994-1995.

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