PhD Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics
Department of
Spanish and Portuguese
Biography
Érick Pineda (Ph.D. candidate) holds a Master of Arts in Spanish with a specialization in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder. His scholarly interests encompass language change, variation, languages in contact, and Spanish as a second language. Pineda's doctoral research focuses on the linguistic interaction between Spanish and the P'urepecha language, particularly within the community in the Lake Pátzcuaro region of Michoacán, Mexico. His work aims to elucidate the aspectual and morphosyntactic variations arising from this language interaction.