People
Joseph Clancy Clements | Faculty
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Linguistics
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Department of Linguistics
(Spanish)
Office: Ballantine Hall 855
TEL: 855-5732
(Linguistics)
Office: Memorial Hall 329
TEL: 855-7447
Email: clements
Education
Ph.D., 1985, University of Washington, Seattle
M.A., 1979, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Specializations
- Contact Linguistics
- Pidgins and Creoles
- Sociolinguistics
- Lexical Semantics
- Functional Syntax
- Morphology
Selected Publications
Contact Linguistics
- “The Spanish-based creoles”, Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Antxón Olarréa y Erin O'Rouke (2012). Oxford: Blackwell, 27-46
- “Spanish in contact with Portuguese: the case of Barranquenho”, The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, edited by Manuel Diaz-Campos (2011). Oxford: Blackwell, 395-417.
- Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, co-edited with Shelome Gooden. Current Topics, Volume 36. Amsterdam: Benjamins (2011)
- “Language change in contact languages: grammatical and prosodic considerations. An introduction,” in Language change in contact situations: grammatical and prosodic considerations, co-edited with Shelome Gooden (2011). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-18.
- The linguistic legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial expansion and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2009)
- “Gradual vs. abrupt creolization and recent changes in Daman Creole Portuguese”, Gradual creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo Cardoso, and Margot van den Berg. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 55-75 (2009)
- “Accounting for some similarities and differences among the Indo-Portuguese creoles,” Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 8(2).23-48 (2009)
- “A creole origin for Barlovento Spanish?: A linguistic and sociohistorical inquiry” (co-authored with Manuel Díaz-Campos), Language in Society 37.351-383. (2008)
- “Korlai Creole Portuguese”, Comparative Creole Syntax, edited by John Holm and Peter Patrick. London: Battlebridge Press, 153-173. (2007)
- History, society, and variation in pidgins and creoles (co-edited with Thomas Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen, and Kevin Rottet). Amsterdam: Benjamins (2006)
- “The lexicalization – grammaticalization continuum”, in History, society, and variation in pidgins and creoles, co-edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen, and Kevin Rottet. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 77-101. (2006)
- “Immigrant speech, creoles, and the ‘basic variety’: a usage-based account of some traits in the Portuguese-based creoles.” Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 4.49-65. (2005)
- “La armonización vocálica en los criollos indo-portugueses”, Los criollos de base ibérica, edited by Mauro Fernández, Manuel Fernández-Ferreiro, and Nancy Vázquez Veiga. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 33-40. (2004)
- “The tense-aspect system in pidgins and naturalistically learned L2”, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25:245-281. (2003)
- “An A-morphous Morphological Account of the Reduplication Processes in three Asian-Portuguese Creoles,” Twice as meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other Contact Languages, edited by Silvia Kouwenberg. London: Battlebridge Press, 193-202. (2003)
- “Two Indo-Portuguese creoles in contrast” (co-authored with Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden), Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:191-236. (2002)
- “Word order shift and natural L2 acquisition in a Portuguese creole,” Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition, edited by Caroline Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 73-87. (2001)
Hispanic Linguistics
- “Me dicen que suena raro cuando digo yo en todo momento: ¿por qué no es necesario usar el pronombre?”, El español a través de la lingüística: Pregunas y respeuestas, edited by Jennifer D. Ewald and Anne Edstrom (2008). Somerville MA: Cascadilla Press, 83-94.
- Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, transitivity (co-edited with Jiyoung Yoon). London: Palgrave-Macmillan (2006)
- "Primary and secondary object marking in Spanish", in Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, and trasitivity, edited by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon (2006). London: Palgrave MacMillan, 115-133 (2006)
- "Null objects", in Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, and transitivity, edited by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 134-152 (2006)
- "Ser-estar in the predicate adjective construction", in Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, and transitivity, edited by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 161-202 (2006)
- "Transitivity and Spanish non-anaphoric se", in Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, and transitivity, edited by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 236-264 (2006)
Teaching
- LING 630 Pidgins and Creoles
- LING 530 Historical Linguistics
- LING 520 Sociolinguistics (graduate level)
- LING 315 Sociolinguistics (undergraduate level)
- LING 103 Introduction to the Study of Language
- SPAN 712: Graduate Seminar: Romance Languages in Contact with Other Languages
- SPAN 611: Advanced Spanish Syntax
- SPAN 511: Spanish Syntactic Analysis
- SPAN 326: Introducción a la Lingüística Española
Honors and Awards
- Grant-in-Aid from Research and University Graduate School (IU), for fieldwork on immigrant Spanish in Madrid, Spain (2003)
- Grant-in-Aid from Research and University Graduate School (IU), for fieldwork in Daman, India (2000)
- Faculty Recipient of the Spanish and Portuguese Department's Teaching Excellence Recognition Program, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences at IU (2000)
Current Research Projects
- The origin and evolution of Daman Creole Portuguese
- The Indo-Portuguese Creoles
- Barranquenho: a Spanish-Portuguese language contact variety of Barrancos, Portugal
