Dr Manuel Delicado Cantero
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Areas of expertise
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Iberian Languages 200308
- Linguistics 2004
- Comparative Language Studies 200322
- Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics 200401
Research interests
Spanish syntax, formal syntax, historical linguistics, historical syntax, Spanish historical syntax, language change and variation, dialect syntax, Romance linguistics, pronunciation pedagogy
Biography
Education
I earned my PhD in Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics) at The Ohio State University (USA) in 2009. In Spain, I obtained a licenciatura (B.A.) in Hispanic Philology (Spanish language and literature) and a Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (equivalent to M.A.) with concentration in Spanish language at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real campus). I also attended the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, where I studied formal syntax.
Researcher's projects
Projects in progress
Australian Spanish Pronunciation Pedagogy Project, with Dr William Steed (ANU), Dr Alfredo Herrero de Haro (UoW) and Ms Alicia Mellado (CSIC, UCLM).
The syntax and semantics of nominals in Spanish and Portuguese, with Dr Patricia Amaral (Indiana University, USA)
The syntax of Spanish-Galician bilingual speakers, with Dr M. Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Areas of interest/research
-(Formal) Syntax of Spanish and other Romance languages, including dialect syntax
-Historical syntax of Spanish and other Romance languages, esp. prepositional finite clauses and clausal nominalization/substantivization
-Pronunciation pedagogy in Australia
Professional memberships
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
- Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Available student projects
Proposals are welcome for Honours, MPhil, and PhD research in any of the areas listed in the research interests section above.
Current student projects
PhD
-Mr Charbel El-Khaissi. PhD thesis on the diachrony of definiteness in Syriac. Chair of panel. In progress.
-Mr Turki Alharbi, PhD thesis on L2 English pronunciation teaching and learning in Saudi Arabia. Chair of panel. Completed 2022.
MA
-Mr Song Jing. A syntactic analysis of xie in Southwestern Mandarin, MA thesis, Master of General and Applied Linguistics (Advanced). Completed. 2018.
-Mr Charbel El-Khaissi. The Syntax of Genitive Constructions in Syriac, MA thesis, Master of General and Applied Linguistics (Advanced). Completed. 2018.
Honours
-Ms Jessica Bottomley. Exploring phonological awareness and awareness of grapheme-phoneme correspondences in Australian tertiary students of Spanish. Co-supervised with Dr William Steed. Completed. 2016.
-Ms Kelsey O'Leary. The syntax of clausal nominalisations of Spanish and Portuguese. Completed. 2019.
Publications
- Delicado Cantero, M 2020, 'Substantivized embedded interrogative and exclamative finite wh-clauses in Spanish', in M González-Rivera, S Sessarego (ed.), Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, United States, pp. 85-110.
- Amaral, P & Delicado Cantero, M 2019, 'Not a fact: A synchronic analysis of el hecho de and o facto de', Probus, vol. Online, no. 2019, pp. 1-27.
- Delicado Cantero, M, Steed, W & Herrero de Haro, A 2019, 'Spanish Pronunciation and Teacher Training: Challenges and suggestions', in Rajiv Rao (ed.), Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 304-323.
- Amaral, P & Delicado Cantero, M 2018, 'Subcategorization and change: A diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que)', in Jonathan E MacDonald (ed.), Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, United States, pp. 31-47pp.
- Delicado Cantero, M 2016, 'Historia del español: sintaxis (History of Spanish: syntax)', in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.), Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica. Volume 2, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 590-600.
- Mayer, E & Delicado Cantero, M 2015, 'Continuity and Innovation in Peruvian Spanish: Pragmatics and Contact in (Differential) Object Marking', in Sandro Sessarego and Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera (ed.), New Perspectives on Hispanic Contact Linguistics in the Americas, Iberoamericana Vervuert, Madrid and Frankfurt am Main, pp. 99-120.
- Delicado Cantero, M & Steed, W 2015, 'La enseñanza de la pronunciación del español en Australia: creencias y actitudes de los profesores (Teaching of the pronunciation of Spanish in Australia: beliefs and attitudes of teachers)', Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, vol. online, p. 18.
- Steed, W & Delicado Cantero, M 2014, 'Quantifying Australian L2 Spanish pronunciation', Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium (LCNAU 2013) - The Second National LCNAU Colloquium, ed. C Travis, J Hajek, C Nettelbeck, E Beckmann and A Lloyd-Smith, LCNAU, Australia, pp. 411-425.
- Delicado Cantero, M 2014, 'Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese and Spanish', in Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho (ed.), Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam Holland, pp. 95-120.
- Steed, W & Delicado Cantero, M 2018, 'First things first: exploring Spanish students' attitudes towards learning pronunciation in Australia', Language Learning Journal, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 103-113.
- Steed, W & Delicado Cantero, M 2014, 'Fair Dinkum: L2 Spanish Pronunciation in Australia by the Book', Fifth Annual Conference: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching, ed. J Levis, S McCrocklin, Iowa State University Press, USA, pp. 58-67.
- Delicado Cantero, Manuel (with Elisabeth Mayer). 2013. "Romance Linguistics in the Pacific: Variation in Time and Space", Australian Journal of Linguistics 33.2, 103-105. DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2013.814523
- Delicado Cantero, Manuel. 2013. "Clausal Substantivization in Spanish: Syntax and Constraints", Australian Journal of Linguistics 33.2, 106-120. DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2013.814524
- Delicado Cantero, M 2013, Prepositional Clauses in Spanish: A Diachronic and Comparative Syntactic Study, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin Germany.
- Delicado Cantero, Manuel. 2012. "Relative and Possessive Features in Colloquial Spanish", in Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego (ed.), Current Formal Aspects of Spanish Syntax and Semantics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 78-94.
- González-Rivera, Melvin & Delicado Cantero, Manuel. 2012. "On the Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Binominal Noun Phrases (cQBNPs)", in Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego (ed.), Current Formal Aspects of Spanish Syntax and Semantics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 179-197.
- Variation and syntax in number expression in Afro-Bolivian Spanish, with Sandro Sessarego. Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Luis A. Ortiz-López, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 42-53. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/13/index.html
- Feature sharing and (in)definiteness in the nominal domain, with Melvin González-Rivera. Proceedings of Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 17: 1, Article 15. http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol17/iss1/
- Critical edition, prologue, and notes (with Ana Isabel Zapata-Calle and Elena Marcello). Los celos de Rodamonte. In Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez and Rafael González Cañal (dirs.) 2009: Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla. Obras completas. Volumen II. Primera parte de comedias. Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 443-586, 725-761.
- Evidence and theory in syntactic change: Revisiting the history of Spanish prepositional finite clauses. Purdue Linguistics Association Working Papers 1.2: 78-98.
- Innovation in relativization: the new Spanish possessive relative el cual su N. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 30: 51-65 http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/3903
- Translation (with Luis García Fernández) of "Statives, progressives, habituals", by Pier Marco Bertinetto. In Luis GarcÃa Fernández and Bruno Camus Bergareche (eds.) 2004: El pretérito imperfecto. Madrid: Gredos.
