Alvaro Cerron-Palomino
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Phone: 480-727-0238
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Álvaro Cerrón-Palomino is an associate professor of Hispanic linguistics at the School of International Letters and Cultures, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Spanish language variation, Spanish in the U.S. Southwest, and history of the Spanish language.
His previous experience includes stints at Peruvian universities, such as the Pontifical Catholic University and the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, and American colleges, such as Loyola Marymount University and West Los Angeles College.
Cerrón-Palomino obtained his doctorate in Hispanic linguistics at the University of Southern California, and his teaching and research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, dialectology, and historical linguistics. Cerrón-Palomino’s main area of research is morpho-syntactic variation in understudied varieties of Spanish, both monolingual and bilingual. His publications include articles in journals like Spanish in Context, Sociolinguistic Studies, Lingüística, Studies ih Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, and the International Journal of Bilingualism, among others.
- Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Southern California 2010
- M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 1998
- B.A. Hispanic Linguistics and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 1991
Variationist Sociolinguistics
Dialectology
Language Contact/Bilingualism
Historical (Socio)Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Statistical methods for linguistic corpus analysis
Peer reviewed articles
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro, Sergio Loza, and Rosti Vana (2023). A historical-variationist analysis of subject pronoun expression in 19th and early 20th century Arizonan Spanish. Languages 8(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010025
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro and Rosti Vana (2022). Tracking subject position change in U.S. Southwest Spanish: What 19th and 20th century Tucson newspapers tell us. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 8(2). 269-292. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2021-0003
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2019). Null-subject Encounter: Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in the Spanish of Quechua-Spanish Bilinguals in the Central Peruvian Andes. International Journal of Bilingualism 23(5). 1005-1023. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918763175
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2018). Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Andean Spanish: a Drift from the Acrolect. Onomázein 42. 53-73. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.42.02
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2018). Pronominal resumption in Spanish direct object relative clauses. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 11(2), 265–301. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2018-0009
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2017). ¿Reflejos del quechua en una variedad de contacto? La posición del sujeto gramatical en castellano andino. Boletín de Filología 52 (1), 47–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-93032017000100047
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2016). (No) English interference on U.S. Southwest Spanish? A look at variable subject expression in Phoenix Spanish-English bilinguals. Sociolinguistic Studies 10 (3), 383–408. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i3.28327
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2015). Morphological adjectival intensifier variation in the Spanish of Lima, Peru. Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads. Theoretical Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Language Contact, Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), 231-250. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.4.12cer
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2015). Resumption or Contrast? Non-Standard Subject Pronouns in Spanish Relative Clauses. Spanish in Context 12 (3), 349-372. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.12.3.02cer
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2014). Excess, Deficiency, and Mean: Resumptive Pronouns, Prepositional Phrase Chopping, and Gaps in Spanish Oblique Relative Clauses. In Perspectives in the Study of Spanish Language Variation: Papers in Honor of Carmen Silva-Corvalán, Andrés Enrique-Arias, Manuel J. Gutiérrez, Alazne Landa y Francisco Ocampo (eds.) Verba, Anexo 72, 76-100.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2014). Ser o no ser PRO: variación en la expresión de sujeto pronominal en el castellano limeño. Lingüística, 30 (1), 61-83. http://www.scielo.edu.uy/pdf/ling/v30n1/v30n1a04.pdf
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2011). Simplicidad y claridad estructurales: la producción de cláusulas relativas en castellano. Lexis, 25 (2), 225-259. https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.201102.001
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2006). Pronombres de retoma en cláusulas relativas del castellano peruano: un fenómeno de causación múltiple. Lexis, 29 (2), 231-258. https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/2213/2143
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2003). Sobre los Grados del Adjetivo calificativo Español. Lexis, 27, 263-281. https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.20030102.013
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2002). Aproximación a la conciencia lingüística de Borges. In Homenaje a Luis Jaime Cisneros, Hopkins Rodríguez, Eduardo (ed.), 135-149. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. PUCP.
Book Reviews
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2021). Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Glosario de términos gramaticales. U de Salamanca, 2019. Hispania, 104 (2), 323-324.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2020). Battaner Arias, Paz, y Carmen López Ferrero. 2019. Introducción al léxico, componente transversal de la lengua. Madrid: Cátedra, Hispania, 103 (3), 437-438.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2019). Muñoz-Basols, Javier, y Manel Lacorte. 2017. Lingüística hispánica actual: Guía didáctica y materiales de apoyo. Routledge. Hispania, 102 (2), 299-300.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2017). Gutiérrez-Rexach Javier (Ed.). 2016. Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica. London/New York: Routledge. Hispania, 100 (3), 489-492.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2016). Caravedo, Rocío. 2014. Percepción y variación lingüística. Enfoque sociocognitivo. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert. Lexis, 40 (2), 449-458.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2013). M. Victoria Escandell Vidal, Manuel Leonetti y Cristina Sánchez López (Eds.). 2011. 60 problemas de gramática dedicados a Ignacio Bosque. Madrid: Akal, 2011. Hispania, 96 (4), 589-591.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (2011). Robles-Sáez, Adela. 2010. 3,000 locuciones verbales y combinaciones frecuentes. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011. Hispania, 94 (3), 553-554.
Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro (1999). Singh, Rajendra. 1996. Lectures against Sociolinguistics. New York: Peter Lang. Lexis, 23 (2), 437-444.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 695 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 784 | Internship |
SPA 599 | Thesis |
SPA 550 | Spanish for Reading Knowledge |
SPA 550 | Spanish for Reading Knowledge |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 542 | Studies in the Spanish/SW |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 599 | Thesis |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 542 | Studies in the Spanish/SW |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 784 | Internship |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 542 | Studies in the Spanish/SW |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 540 | Hist of the Spanish Language |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SLC 201 | Introduction to Linguistics |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
- Alvaro Cerron-Palomino. Challenging the Accessibility Hierarchy: Resumptive Pronouns in Spanish. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39 (Nov 2010).
- Alvaro Cerron-Palomino. Defying the Standard: Resumptive Pronouns and Preposition Phrase chopping in Oblique Spanish Relative Clauses. The 108th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Nov 2010).
- Alvaro Cerron-Palomino. Against the Accessibility Hierarchy: Resumptive Pronouns in Spanish Relative Clauses. Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO) Annual Conference (Oct 2010).
- Alvaro Cerron-Palomino. Animate vs. Inanimate: Resumptive Pronouns and Preposition Phrase chopping in Spanish Oblique Relative Clauses. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2010 (Oct 2010).