Dr María Arche
Lecturer in Spanish & Second Language Acquisition Tel: 020 8331 9007
Email: m.j.arche@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 226
Office Hours
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Qualifications
PhD in Linguistics and Language Acquisition, University Complutense of Madrid, 2004.
María Jesús Arche studied at the Research Institute Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Her dissertation, entitled 'Aspectual and Temporal Properties Individual-Level Predicates' was directed by Timothy Stowell (UCLA) and Violeta Demonte ( Ortega y Gasset/University Autónoma of Madrid). A reviewed version of it has been published in the collection "Linguistics Today" from John Benjamins Publishing (Amsterdam/Phildelphia). This work includes formal proposals about the syntactic articulation of tense and aspect and about the role of prepositions in the event structure of the sentence.
Before joining the University of Greenwich in London she participated in the creation of a combinatorial dictionary of Spanish (Madrid: SM Publishing Company) in 2006 and worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK) for the ESRC-funded project: "Linguistic development in L2 Spanish: creation and analysis of a learner corpus" (a.k.a. SPLLOC).
Arche has also been a visiting professor at UCLA for Introduction to Syntactic Theory and has collaborated in the Introduction to Linguistics and Introduction to Spanish Linguistics courses at the University of Southampton.
Teaching Areas/ Courses:
Undergraduate
- Foundations of Sound & Meaning
- Foundations of Linguistics
- Language & Society
- Spanish 1
- Spanish 4
- Spanish 5
Postgraduate
- Second Language Acquisition (MA)
Research Interests
Arche's main fields of interests fall within Syntax and Semantics interface, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics.
As a member of the SPLLOC team in the UK, she has contributed to the investigation of the acquisition of word order and clitic pronouns in Spanish by English speakers. Her interest on tense and aspect has motivated a further research agenda which has been awarded by the ESRC with £200,000 for 18 months (August 2008-January 2010). The current SPLLOC team is formed by Dr. L. Domínquez (director), Prof. R. Mitchell & Prof. F. Myles (co-directors), Dr. M. Arche (Project Adviser) and Dr. Nicole Tracy-Ventura (Research Fellow).
- Forthcoming: "Morphology and Syntax interaction in SLA: a study on clitic acquisition in Spanish. In Morphology and Its Interfaces. A. Galani, G, Tsoulas and G. Hicks (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Laura Domínquez).
- 2008. “SPLLOC: A new corpus for Spanish second language acquisition research”. EuroSLA Yearbook 8. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, p. 287-304. With Rosamond Mitchell, Laura Domínguez, Florence Myles and Emma Marsden.
- 2008. “Optionality in L2 grammars. The acquisition of the SV/VS contrast in Spanish”. 32 BUCLD Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, p. 96-107. With Laura Domínguez.
- 2007. La interpretación temporal de la enumeración de eventos en el discurso” [Temporal interpretation of enumeration of events in discourse]. Discurso y oralidad: Homenaje al profesor J. J. Bustos Tovar [Discourse and orality: A tribute to Professor J. J. de Bustos Tovar], ed. L. Cortés, A. Bañón, M. Espejo & J. L. Muñío. Anejos de Oralia. Madrid: Arco Libros.
2006. Individuals in Time. Tense, Aspect and the individual/stage distinction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Table of Contents. Foreword, by Timothy Stowell.
- 2002. Aproximaciones teóricas a la lingüística histórica [Theoretical approaches to historical linguistics]. Res Diachronicae 1: 444–454.
- 2001. “A Note on Distributivity and the Independent Temporal Construal”, Cuadernos de Lingüística [Working Papers in Linguistics] del I. U. Ortega y Gasset, 8: 83–96.