Graduate Student
Research Interests
- Spanish Linguistics
- Basque
- Syntax
- Language Contact
- Bilingual grammar
- Spanish-Basque contact
Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (in progress)
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
B.A. in Modern Languages: double major in English and Linguistics, University of Deusto, 2015
Grants
- Departmental Summer Fellowship – 2017, 2018, 2020
- Departmental conference travel grant – Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019
- Graduate College conference travel grant – Fall 2019
Awards and Honors
- Best Graduate Paper Award – Spring 2020
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students – Fall 2015, Spring 2016*, Fall 2016*, Spring 2017*, Fall 2017, Spring 2018*, Fall 2018*, Spring 2019*, Fall 2019*, Spring 2020*. (*: outstanding rating)
- Special end-of-degree award, University of Deusto, 2015
Courses Taught
- SPAN 103: Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2015)
- SPAN 141: Intro to Spanish Grammar (Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
- SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions (Spring 2020)
- SPAN 204: Advanced Spanish Grammar in Context (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
- SPAN 252: Intro to Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019 online)
- SPAN 305: The Structure of Spanish (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
- SPAN 308: Spanish in the United States (Spring 2020)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Department of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Recent Publications
- MacDondald, Jonathan & Almike Vázquez-Lozares. 2021. Spanish impersonal se in control infinitivals and the ungrammaticality of se se sequences. East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Paula Kempchinsky, ed. by Gupton, Timothy & Elizabeth Gielau. John Benjamins.
- MacDondald, Jonathan & Almike Vázquez-Lozares. 2022. On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish. Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics. Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018.
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Vázquez-Lozares, Almike. 2022. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish. Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics. Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018.