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Biography
I am an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. I retired from ANU at the beginning of 2020 but continue my research as an honorary staff member. I hold a Master of Arts degree (2004) in Linguistics and a PhD in Linguistics (2011) from the Australian National University. Before joining the ANU I completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies of English and Romance Philology and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1974-1982). I also have a translator’s degree in Spanish, French and German from the same University. From 2016 -2023 I was National Chair of OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (www.ozclo.org.au) and from 2016 to 2018, I served as the Director of ANCLAS (The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies).
Awards and Grants
2017 COALAR GRANT (ANIP-ANCLAS) - CAP-CASS Collaboration Grant
2013 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach
2012 National Teaching Award for Programs That Enhance Learning for the Spanish Program
1977 Grant for Excellency in Academic Performance University of Innsbruck, Austria
Qualifications
PhD Linguistics (ANU), MA Linguistics (ANU), MA Trans (French, Spanish, German) University of Innsbruck, Austria
Research Interests
Romance languages, specifically Spanish and Portuguese; Latin American Indigenous languages, in particular Quechua, Ashaninka and Shipibo; Language contact, variation and change; First and second language acquisition; Fieldwork data and formal syntactic theory; Migration and dialectal variability – specifically in syntax, morphology, information structure and interfaces; Bilingualism / Multilingualism; Bilingual (Intercultural) Education and Language policies.
Current research projects
Second Language Acquisition and Language Contact. Handbook for Routledge (with Liliana Sánchez, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Contact, change and emerging DOM patterns in argument marking and clitic doubling in Perú and Argentina (with Liliana Sánchez, University of Illinois at Chicago and Pablo Zdrojewski, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Language contact in theoretical syntax: the big DP hypothesis (with L. Sánchez and J. Camacho, University of Illinois at Chicago and Carolina Rodríguez Alzza, Pontificia Universidad del Peru)
Processing of pronominal coreference in ambiguous sentences: a comparative study between Brazilian Portuguese speakers and Australian English speakers (with Ana Luiza Machado, UFRJ, Brazil, PhD sanduiche funded by CAPES, Brazil)
Typological differences in Quechua-Spanish, Shipibo-Spanish and Ashaninka- Spanish Bilingual speech (with L. Sánchez and J. Camacho, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Homelanguage maintenance and language rights for indigenous and tribal peoples in Peru (with L. Sánchez and J. Camacho, University of Illinois at Chicago and Carolina Rodríguez Alzza, Pontificia Universidad del Peru)
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The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation
Sánchez, L., Camacho, J., Mayer, E. & Alzza, C. R., Jul 2023, In: Catalan Journal of Linguistics. 22, p. 127-148 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Sánchez, L., Camacho, J., Mayer, E. & Alzza, C. R., Jun 2022, In: Languages. 7, 2, 81.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Emerging DOM patterns in clitic doubling and dislocated structures in Peruvian-Spanish contact varieties
Mayer, E. & Sánchez, L., 22 Nov 2021, Differential Object Marking in Romance: The third wave. de Gruyter, p. 103-137 35 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The drivers of home language maintenance and development in indigenous communities
Mayer, E., Sánchez, L., Camacho, J. & Alzza, C. R., 22 Jun 2020, Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development: Social and Affective Factors. de Gruyter, p. 312-331 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Feature variability in the bilingual-monolingual continuum: clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish, bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in monolingual Limeño Spanish contact varieties
Mayer, E. & Sánchez, L., 3 Oct 2019, In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 22, 7, p. 883-896 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus)