MIC Related Research | Dr. Francisco Ordóñez

Francisco Ordóñez grew up Catalonia (Spain) but his parents come from the south of Spain. So he was exposed very early on to a bilingual situation in which Catalan and Spanish were used interchangeably all the time in daily conversation. In part this bilingual situation stimulated his interest in languages and language variation. He is trained in the study of formal linguistics, and he specializes in the comparative study of the syntax of Spanish, including its many varieties, alongside other Romance languages such as Catalan, French, Italian and Occitan dialects. His interest is focused on integrating advances in theoretical linguistics with the study of variation in Romance languages.