Jessi Elana Aaron Assistant Professor University of Florida Romance Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 117405 Gainesville, FL 32611-7405 Tel.: (352)392-2016 Fax: (352)392-5679 jeaaron@ufl.edu Jessi Elana Aaron received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, with a specialty in Hispanic Linguistics, from the University of New Mexico in 2006. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and a second MA in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. She did her undergraduate work in Spanish and Political Science, also at Stanford University. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, grammaticization, and language contact. Her current research focuses on historical morphosyntax in a cross-linguistic usage-based perspective. Other interests include linguistic, cultural and literary representations of gender, disability, aging, and death, and 20th-century Brazilian and French literature and cultural theory. She has done ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in Puebla, Mexico. Dr. Aaron is also a published poet. The introduction to Jessi Aaron's dissertation, Variation and change in Spanish future temporal expression, can be downloaded here. ::: Made with CoffeeCup : Web Design Software & Website Hosting :::