Liliana E. Sánchez, PhD

My research interests are bilingual, heritage and comparative syntax. In bilingual syntax, my current work focuses on crosslinguistic influence across language components especially syntax, morphology and informational structure (Spanish in contact with Quechua, Shipibo, Ashaninka, Korean and English). My work on heritage bilingualism focuses on modeling processes of divergent access to heritage grammars. In comparative syntax, I work on the interface between informational structure and morphosyntax (Spanish, Quechua). I am also interested in language assessment in minority populations.

Sánchez, L., Camacho, J., Mayer, E., and C. Rodriguez. 2023. The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Language Contact situation. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22, 127-148. https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v22-sanchez-et-al

Sánchez, L. and H. Koulidobrova. 2023. Mythbusters and Indigenous Perceptions of COVID-19. Ampersand. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100118

Sánchez, L., M. Goldin, E. Hur, J.C. López Otero, P. Thane, J. Austin, J. Markovits. 2023. Dominance, Language Experience, and Increased Interaction Effects on the Development of Pragmatic Knowledge in Heritage Bilingual Children: Acceptance of Null and Overt Subjects in Spanish and English. Heritage Language Journal. Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/hlj/20/1/article-p1_1.xml

Amaral, L. and L. Sánchez. 2023. Commentary to The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

Mayer, E. and L. Sánchez. 2023. Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish Varieties. Spanish Diversity in the Amazon. M. Jara., R. Zariquiey, P. Valenzuela, A.M. Escobar (Eds.).Amsterdam: Brill. 251-279.

Mayer, E. and L. Sánchez. 2023. Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish Varieties. Spanish Diversity in the Amazon. M. Jara., R. Zariquiey, P. Valenzuela, A.M. Escobar (Eds.).Amsterdam: Brill. 251-279.

Sánchez, L., Camacho, J., Mayer, E., and C. Rodriguez. 2022. Gender Agreement in A Language Contact Situation. Languages, 7(2):81. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020081

Sánchez, L. 2022. Is Quechua II a pluricentric language family? Pluricentric languages in different theoretical and educational contexts. Rudolf Muhr, Eugenia Duarte, Cilene Rodrigues, Juan Thomas (eds.) Graz/Berlin, PCL-Press. 31-46.

Cuza, A. and L. Sánchez. 2022. Gender expression in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish: Moving beyond the source of differences. Ayoun, D. (ed). The Acquisition of Gender. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 71-94.

Giancaspro, D. and L. Sánchez. 2021. Inalienable possession in heritage speakers of Spanish. Glossa. 6(1), 31. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1240

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Comunidad de Lingüistas. Member of support group for indigenous peoples.

Member of Bilingualism Matters Chicago. Childhood Bilingualism Workgroup.

Ph.D., Linguistics. University of Southern California, 1996

• Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas
• Linguistic Society of America
• Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina

Selected recent presentations

Upcoming Keynote address:

• 2022. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. U. Wisconsin. April 21-23.

Keynotes and invited talks

• Upcoming talk: Goethe Universität Frankfurt. January 25th
• 2021. Individual variability and the challenges of formalizing Heritage speakers’ syntax. Invited address. Heritage Language Syntax 2. University of Utrecht. December 15.
• 2021. Structured variation, cross-linguistic influence, and language experience in heritage bilingualism: Evidence from clitic pronoun production, comprehension, and processing. AcqVA Aurora. University of the Artic, Norway. December 14. In collaboration with Naomi Shin, Alejandro Cuza.
• 2021. Conversatorio sobre enseñanza de segundas lenguas. Equipo regional de L2-Gerencia Regional de Educación (GEREDU), Cusco, Perú. October 20.
• 2021. The challenges of formalizing Heritage speakers’ syntax: The role of individual variability. Universidade de Brasilia. September 14-15.
• 2021. The interface between syntax and information structure in Quechua: challenges and opportunities. Universidade de Brasilia. September 14-15.
• 2021. Convergencias entre la Ley de Lenguas, la Política Nacional de Lenguas y la Política de EIB. Invited class presentation at the Intercultural Bilingual Education Masters Program at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. June 26th.
• 2021. Heritage Language Challenges: Understanding Variability and Promoting Revitalization. Panel. 8th SSHL. CUNY. May 13th.

Conferences

• 2021. The Big DP Hypothesis. Coloquio de Gramática Generativa. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. July 2nd. With J. Camacho, E. Mayer, and C Rodriguez Alzza.
• 2021. Evidential/focus markers and discourse connectors in Southern Quechua: Effects of age of acquisition, first language status, and patterns of language use. International Pragmatics Association. June 29th. With L. Andrade Ciudad, R. Gonzalo Segura.
• 2021. Indigenous communities in multilingual countries in the time of the pandemic...messages (not) received: Quechua and Shipibo in rural Peru. Conference on Multilingualism (COM). June 23-25, University of Konstanz. With H. Koulidobrova.
• 2020. The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis and Gender Agreement: Evidence from Bilingual Acquisition in a Contact situation. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. April. With J. Camacho, E. Mayer, and C Rodriguez Alzza.
• 2020. Lexical Frequency Effects on gender agreement among Spanish Heritage Speakers. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. With. E. Hur and J. López Otero

Research projects

• 2020-present. Relevance of linguistic and cross-cultural appropriateness in communication during the pandemic. NSF-funded.
• 2020-present. Quantifiers in bilinguals and monolinguals.
• 2015-present. Documenting Cuzco-Collao Quechua. In collaboration with Prof. Sue Kalt, Prof. Antje Muntendam, Prof. Pedro Plaza, Hipólito Peralta Ccama, Bersi Macedo.
• 2014-present. Argument Marking in Andean and Amazonian Languages and Spanish. In collaboration with Elisabeth Mayer (Australian National University), Carolina Rodriguez Alzza (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and José Camacho (University of Illinois Chicago)
• 2012-present. Discourse structure in Southern Quechua. In collaboration with Prof. Luis Andrade (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Prof. Roger Gonzalo Segura (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).
• 2015-present. Null subjects in Spanish-English Bilingual Acquisition. In collaboration with Jennifer Austin (Rutgers, Newark), Michele Goldin, Esther Hur, Abril Jimenez, Julio Lopez Otero. Peru site: María Blume (PUCP), Mari Fernandez (PUCP) and Andrea Junyent.

Broad Impact Projects

• 2020- present. Materials for health experiencies and prevention (COVID-19) in Quechua (in collaboration with H. Koulidobrova and Siwar Peralta) and Shipibo (with H. Koulidobrova and Bernabe Nahua).