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John M. Lipski
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University
347 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6583
Fax: (814) 863-7944
E-mail: jlipski@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Spanish language variation, creole languages, linguistic consequences of African diaspora, phonology, language contact
Recent Publications:
Books:
Afro-Bolivian Spanish. Frankfurt and Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2008.
Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Georgetown University Press, 2008.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Fluent dysfluency” as congruent lexicalization: a special case of radical code-mixing. Journal of Language Contact 2 (2009), 1-39.
Tracing the origins of Panamanian Congo speech: the pathways of regional variation. Diachronica 26 (2009), 380-407.
Spanish-based creoles in the Caribbean. The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, ed. Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), pp. 543-564.
Socio-phonological variation in Latin American Spanish. Handbook of Spanish sociolinguistics, ed. Manuel Díaz-Campos. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, in press.
Afro-Paraguayan Spanish: the negation of non-existence. Journal of Pan-African Studies vol. 2 no. 7 (2008), 2-32.
Afro-Choteño speech: towards the (re)creation of a “Black Spanish” Negritud v. 2, no. 1 (2008), 99-120.