Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Stein 414

Campus P.O. Box 138A
College of the Holy Cross
One College Street
Worcester, MA 01610-2395

Phone: (508) 793-2539
Fax: (508) 793-3708
E-Mail: jalba@holycross.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University, 2002

M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University, 2001

M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, 1996

B.A. in Translation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1992

Course Offerings:

Span 201 - Intermediate Spanish, I

Span 215-216 Directed Independent Intermediate Spanish I, II

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation

Span 314 - Spanish for Business.

Span 318 - Phonetics and Phonology

Span 362 - Introduction to the Science of Language.

Span 413 - Spanish in the US: A Sociolinguistic Perspective.

Span 414 - Second Language Acquisition and Spanish

MONT 104-N - The Language Instinct

Primary Research Interests:

Romance Linguistics (Spanish, Catalan & Italian): Theoretical and applied perspectives

Theoretical Syntax: Light verb constructions, Control, expletives, noun predicates, argument structure

Romance Philology: Collocations (synchronic and diachronic approaches)

Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy: Acquisition of Spanish as a second language, curriculum design, development of pedagogical materials, teacher training and supervision

Recent Publications:

Alba-Salas, Josep. 2009. “Las estructuras tipo meter miedo en diacronía: Más detalles sobre la evolución histórica de las colocaciones causativas” [Meter miedo-type structures in diachrony: Further details about the historical evolution of causative collocations]. In Enrique-Arias, Andrés (ed.), Diacronía de las lenguas iberorrománicas: Nuevas aportaciones desde la lingüística de corpus. Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana. 343-364.

---. 2007. "On the Life and Death of a Collocation: A Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of dar miedo/hacer miedo-type structures in Spanish." Diachronica 24.2: 207-252.

---, and Rafael Salaberry. 2007. "Adquisición del español como segunda lengua." In Manel Lacorte, ed. Lingüística aplicada del español. Madrid: Arco/Libros. pp. 47-82.

---. 2006. “Subject Control into Nominals in Romance.” SKY Journal of Linguistics 19: 9-62. [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/SKY2006/Alba-Salas.pdf]

---. 2006. “Las colocaciones con nombre predicativo: consideraciones prácticas y metodológicas para su tratamiento lexicográfico.” In Margarita Alonso Ramos (ed.) Diccionarios y fraseología
( Anexos de Revista de Lexicografía, 3). A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña. pp. 45-57.

---. 2004. “Fare ‘Do’ Light Verb Constructions and Causatives in Italian: Understanding the Differences”. Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 16 (2): 183-223.

---. 2004. “Lexically-Selected Expletives: Evidence from Basque and Romance”. SKY Journal of Linguistics 17: 35-100.