Dr Manuel Delicado Cantero

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.
Grants and fellowships at ANU
2016 CASS Workshop funding, ANU. With Solène Inceoglu.
2013 CASS Small grant for project "Australian Spanish Pronunciation Pedagogy".
2013 ANU Travel grant
2012 Visiting Fellow, HRC, ANU (semester 1)
2011 ANU Travel grant
2010 ANU Travel grant
2010 Vice-Chancellor Travel Grant
Courses regularly taught at ANU
-SPAN2001, SPAN2002 Continuing Spanish I and II
-SPAN2601 The Sounds of Spanish
-SPAN2603 History of the Spanish language. A linguistic time travel
-LING2020/6020 Structure of English
-LING2003/6003 Introduction to 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
Linguistics:
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
- Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)
- Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Applied Linguistics:
- Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)
- Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA)
Pedagogy/Teaching:
- Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE)
- Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)
- 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. In progress.
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, 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
- 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.