Hailing from Spain, Antonio Valle de Anton earned his PhD in Ibero-Romance
Philology and Sociolinguistics from the University of Texas in Austin in 2005.
His expertise in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition focuses on
heritage speakers, bilingualism, translation and interpretation, and Spanish
dialectology.
Education
University of Texas, Austin, Ph.D, Ibero-Romance Philology and
Sociolinguistics, 2005.
University of Texas, Austin, MA, Hispanic Linguistics, 2000.
University of Texas, Austin, BA, Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture,
1996.
Universidad de Salamanca, School of Medicine, Spain-E.U., 1987.
Dissertation
“Two Romance Tenses
and the Atlantic Inbetween
.”
Thesis Director: Dr. Marta Luján
and Dr. Fritz Hensey.
Publications
“Sociolinguistics
Perspectives of the Reflexive Clitic in Spanish”; Verlag
Publishers,
forthcoming 2011.
“Past Tenses in Spanish”; Tomsk State
Pedagogical University Press, January 2010.
“Two Romance Tenses and the
Atlantic in Between” VDM Verlag, 2009.
Conference Presentations
“Two
Romance Tenses and the Atlantic in between”. UNC-Pembroke. Author’s
showcase
presentation. March 2010.
“A Manual for Beginning
Professional Translators.” & “Professional Translators and
Interpreters
Just Out of College? Making It Happen”. Nebraska Association for Translators and
Interpreters. Annual Conference, University of Nebraska, Kearney. July
2008.
“Why Are Our Students Not Getting More Out of College Spanish?”
Nebraska Association for
Translators and Interpreters. Annual Conference,
Bellevue University. August 2007.
“Punctuation in ‘Eng’ and ‘Spa’;
Accentuation in Spanish”. Nebraska Association for
Translators and
Interpreters, Annual Conference, South East Community College, Lincoln,
NE.
August 2006.
“A Study of 'Present Perfect' and 'Preterit' in
Present-day Spanish”. University of Texas at
Austin. FIGSO 3rd Annual
Conference. April 2006.
"Occupational Jargon between Monolingual
Spanish-Speaking Workers and Their 'Hispanic'
Co-workers in the United
States". State University of New York at Albany. 2nd International
Workshop
on Spanish Sociolinguistics. March 2004.
"Sociolinguistic Perspectives of
the Reflexive Clitic in Spanish". University of Texas—Austin.
13th Colloquium
on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics.
April
2003.
"The Power of Accents in University Settings: French vs.
Spanish”. University of Texas—
Austin. UT Austin Graduate Student Conference.
April 2002.
"Code-switching, Heritage Speakers of Spanish, and Language
Issues in the U.S.: What and
Whom to Teach”. Dept. of Germanic Studies,
University of Texas-Austin. April 2002.
"The Hispanic Phenomenon in the
United States". Iberian and Latin American Studies Yearly
Conference.
Published in Departmental Journal Céfiro. April 2001.