Jessi Elana Aaron
Dr. Aaron's research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, grammaticalization, and language contact. Her current research focuses on historical morphosyntax in a cross-linguistic usage-based perspective. She has published articles in several top-tier jornals, including Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change and Journal of English Linguistics. She has done fieldwork in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
Some of her other interests include representations of gender and disability, as well as the intellectual intersections between usage-based models of language, 20th-century science, and the (post-)Modernist movement. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, writing, traveling, reading and spending time in nature.
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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.
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