EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1990 Licenciatura en Filología Española con Especialidad en Lengua
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
1994 Visiting Scholar
Department of Linguistics, Massachussets Institute of Technology
1995 M.Phil. in Linguistics
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
1997 Ph.D. in Linguistics
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

ACADECMIC POSITIONS

1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor
Intermediate and Advanced Courses in Spanish, including Latinos in the U.S and Hispanic Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa.
1998-2002 Assistant Professor
Courses in Hispanic Linguistics, seminars in Spanish Syntax
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002-present Assistant Professor
Hispanic Languages and Literature
S.U.N.Y Stony Brook

RECENT LECTURES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS BY INVITATION

May 2000 "Variation in Clitic Ordering from a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective" invited talk to the workshop "The Antisymmetry of Syntax", Cortona, Italy. (Presented with Arhonto Terzi)

December 2000 "The Syntax of Clitic Ordering in Romance"
Linguistics Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 2001 "Pronominal clitic combinations in Romance: the Syntax and Morphology Interface"
Invited talk Purdue University

July 2001 Cursillo de Verano, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Summer Course on constituent order in Romance dialects, Unversidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

October 2001 "XP movement versus Head movement: evidence from Caribbean Spanish", Linguistics Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana.

October 2001 "Exceptional Interrogatives in Romance"Invited talk at the University of Chicago

October 2001 "Phrasal Movement to the CP field: Evidence from Caribbean Spanish", Northwestern University

February 2002 "El caso inherente y SE en español" in Asociación de lingüística y Filología de América Latina" ALFAL, Costa Rica.

GRANTS RECEIVED

February 2001 Humanities Release Time Award (Fully funded)
Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 2001 Travel funds for trip to Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic,
Center for Caribbean and Latin-American Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS

A. Thesis
1997 Word Order and Clausal Structure of Spanish and Other Romance Languages.
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Director: Richard Kayne

B. Books
2000 #, + The Clausal Structure of Spanish: a comparative perspective, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series. Garland Publishing Company, New York.

C. Books edited or co-edited
Submitted to Benjamins - Perspectives in Clitic Combinations (editors : Francisco Ordóñez and Lorie Heggie). Volume in preparation for submission to John Benjamins. Initial contact Benjamins Publishing Company

2003 Linguistic Theory and Language Development in Hispanic Languages. Papers from the 5th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium and 4th conference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese (Editors: Francisco Ordóñez and Silvina Montrul) Cascadilla Press.

D. Chapters in Books
1998 "The inversion Construction in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan"
in José Lema et al (eds) Theoretical and Analysis in Romance Languages: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pag. 330-350

1999 +"Focus and Subject Inversion in Romance" in Gutierrez-Reixach, Javier and Fernando Martínez-Gil (Ed) Advances in Hispanic Linguistics . Cascadilla Press. Pag 502-518

E. Articles in Journals
1999 *Francisco Ordóñez and Esthela Treviño"Left Dislocated Subjects and the Pro-drop parameter: a Case Study of Spanish"
Lingua. 108, 1. 39-68

2002 +*Francisco Ordóñez, Antxon Olarrea"Weak Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP pied piping" Features andIinterfaces in Spanish and French. Essays in Honor of Heles Contreras. ( Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona editors).

2002 "Clitic combination in the syntax of Romance" Invited contribution for the first issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics, G. Rigau and J. Mascaró (eds)

Submitted "The antipassive in Mayan as a Last Resort" under revision for The Linguistic Review

RECENT REFEREE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

April 1999 "Clitic Combinations"
West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics, Tucson , Arizona. (Poster)

November 2000 "Clitic combinations in the Syntax: Evidence from me se in Spanish".
IV Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, University of Indiana, Bloomington.

January 2001 "Clitic Combinations in the syntax: Evidence from Judeo Spanish, Dominican Spanish & Baix Ebre Catalan"
Linguistic Society of America-2001, Washington, DC.

April 2001 "Weak Pronouns in Caribbean Spanish and XP pied-piping" Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chicago.

April 2002 "The adjunction possibilities of clitic combinations in Romance"
Linguistic Sympsium on Romance Languages, Toronto

November 2002 "Impersonal Se: A comparative view"
Encuentro de lingüística del Noroeste, Sonora, México.

April 2003 "Number agreement in Nominative Impersonal SE: a comparative view of Catalan, Italian and Spanish"
13 ,Coloquio de Gramática Generativa Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

August 2003 "Microvariation in Interrogatives in Romance: the case of Caribbean Spanish" II encuentro de gramática Generativa Buenos Aires.

September 2003 ""Impersonal Reflexives: a comparative look in Romance". Brown Bag, Linguistics department, Stony Brook