Curriculum Vitae (as of February 2024)
Research areas
(historical) sociolinguistics, language contact, Ibero-Romance (perceptual) dialectology
(historical) sociolinguistics, language contact, Ibero-Romance (perceptual) dialectology
Some publications
The contact origin(s) of ‘hand’ and ‘foot’ > ‘limb’ in Antioquian Spanish: Tracing historical adult L1 transfer [pre-print available upon request]
In Israel Sanz-Sánchez (ed.), Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical Sociolinguistic perspectives
In Israel Sanz-Sánchez (ed.), Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical Sociolinguistic perspectives
Colonial-era language shifts and the sources of substrate body partonomy in the Spanish of northwestern Colombia [open access]
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 27(1)
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 27(1)
Review of 'Language contact and the making of an Afro-Hispanic vernacular: Variation and change in the Colombian Chocó, by Sandro Sessarego [pre-print available upon request]
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 8(1)
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 8(1)
Review of 'Palenquero and Spanish in contact: Exploring the interface', by John M. Lipski
LINGUIST List, 32. 1475
LINGUIST List, 32. 1475
Review of 'Desarrollo sociolingüístico del voseo en la región andina de Colombia (1555-1976),
by Ana María Díaz Collazos [pre-print]
Spanish in Context, 17(3)
by Ana María Díaz Collazos [pre-print]
Spanish in Context, 17(3)
Review of 'Español y portugués en contacto: Préstamos léxicos e interferencias, Dolores Corbella & Alejandro Fajardo (eds.) [pre-print]
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96(5)
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96(5)
In progress
The past inside the present: Origins, processes, and perceptions of contact-induced variation in the Spanish of northwestern Colombia [in progress]
Indiana University dissertation
Indiana University dissertation
Some presentations
[Slides of some talks are up at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eliot_Raynor.]
La influencia de sustratos africanos y amerindios en la fonología, la sintaxis y la semántica de las variedades parcialmente reestructuradas del noreste de Brasil y el noroeste de Colombia
[co-authored with Luana Lamberti]
XXIII Deutscher Hispanistentag, Graz (Austria), February 2023
[co-authored with Luana Lamberti]
XXIII Deutscher Hispanistentag, Graz (Austria), February 2023
Echoes of historically-remote adult language acquisition: Substrate semantics in monolingual Spanish varieties of Chocó and Antioquia (Colombia)
11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN). Murcia, Spain, June 2022
11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN). Murcia, Spain, June 2022
Act of identity vs. sign of difference: Perceptions of discontinuous negation (NEG2) in Chocó, Colombia
Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Atlanta, GA [virtual], April 2022
Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Atlanta, GA [virtual], April 2022
Substrate influences in highland Spanish varieties of South America: Afro-Yungueño and Antioqueño from a comparative perspective
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, virtual, October 2021
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, virtual, October 2021
Perceptions of (ethno-)linguistic identity and difference across two dialect areas of western Colombia
95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2021 [virtual]
95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2021 [virtual]
The nativization of Spanish in the Pacific lowlands of 17th-18th c. New Granada (Colombia)
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, Eugene, OR, October 2020
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, Eugene, OR, October 2020
On target(s): What's missing in debates about 'missing Spanish creoles'
Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Lisbon, July 2020
Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Lisbon, July 2020
A Gbe substrate model for Chocó Spanish negation: Linguistic and historical evidence
19th Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese- and Spanish-Lexified Creoles, Lisbon, July 2020
19th Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese- and Spanish-Lexified Creoles, Lisbon, July 2020
A diachronic account of 'usted' as a default 2sg pronoun in Colombian Spanish
49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Athens, GA, May 2020
49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Athens, GA, May 2020