Jorge López-Cortina

Department of Modern Languages

Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Ave.

South Orange, NJ 07079

Education
2008	Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, Georgetown University Dissertation: The Spanish Left Periphery: Questions and Answers. Abstract PDF Complete work PDF
1999	M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics and Literatures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1995	Licenciado en Filología Española, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Research
2007	“Split Questions and Microparametric Variation” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio
2007	“Split Questions, Extended Projections, and Dialect Variation” Paper presented at the XVII Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universitat de Girona
2006	“Question tags, split questions, and remnant movement” Paper presented at GRAPHSY 2006, Georgetown University
2005	“Reactivity and feedback in a CALL task” Paper coauthored with Melissa Bowles and Maite Camblor, presented at SLRF 2005, Columbia University
2005	“Effects of type of feedback and verbalization condition on L2 development in a CALL task” Paper coauthored with Ron Leow, Melissa Bowles and Maite Camblor, presented at UNTELE 2005, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
2004	“The Left Periphery of Spanish yes/no questions” Poster presented at the GURT 2004, Georgetown University
2003	“The Structure of Split Interrogatives” in Theory, Practice, and Acquisition. Eds. Paula Kempchinsky and Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 2003. 140-55. PDF
2002	“Questions in Asturian Spanish: The Structure of Resumptive Interrogative Constructions“ Paper presented at the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Iowa
2002	“Questions in Asturian Spanish: Unspecified Interrogatives, Word Order and Information Structure“ Poster presented at the Georgetown Research Day, Georgetown University
2000	“Acerca de la historia de los clíticos en los romances peninsulares” Paper presented at the BRICHA, Appalachian State University
2000	“Carteles y avisos al público. Algunos aspectos del español de Massachusetts” Paper presented at the Massachusetts Symposium on Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1999	“Significados activos y pasivos en adjetivos verbales” Paper presented at the 52^nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky
1998	“Algunas cuestiones sobre el acento en español.” Paper presented at the 48^th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Tech
1997	“Acerca de algunas construcciones interrogativas del español.” Paper presented at the 47^th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, East Carolina University
1993	“Zínochka: Estructura actancial de un cuento de A. Chejov.” Paper presented at the III Seminario Internacional de Literatura y Semiótica, Madrid

Teaching

2008-present	Assistant Professor of Spanish, Seton Hall University
2007-present	Director, Introductory and Intermediate Spanish, Seton Hall University
2004-2007	Instructor and Coordinator for Elementary Spanish, Seton Hall University
Fall 2002	Teaching Assistant, Generative Syntax I, Georgetown University
Winter 1998	Teaching Assistant, Hampshire College
Spring 1997	Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish, Amherst College
1996-2000	Teaching Associate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 1995	Teaching Assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
1994-1995	Language Instructor, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain