Dr Maria J. Arche
Lecturer in Spanish & Second Language AcquisitionPrograme Leader for English Language and English Language Teaching
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 9007
Email: m.j.arche@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 331
Office Hours
Wednesday - 2 till 4pm, and by appointment.
I am interested in the human capacity to speak; in particular, I am interested in the intertwining between the production of words linearly ordered (syntax), their meaning (semantics) and the form they take in the different languages (morphology). I have studied this relationship in both adult and learners’ grammars. My main area of research is the Tense and Aspect system, but I have also done studies about clitic pronouns and the acquisition of word order.
Qualifications
Arche has got a PhD in Linguistics and Language Acquisition from the University Complutense of Madrid, 2004. She studied at the Research Institute Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Experience
Before joining the University of Greenwich in London Arche was 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). Her interest on tense and aspect motivated a further research agenda which was awarded by the ESRC with £200,000 (http://www.splloc.soton.ac.uk/splloc2/index.html), where she played a consultant role and participated in the development of the research agenda.
Dr Arche has also been a visiting professor at UCLA for Introduction to Syntactic Theory and a visiting scholar at the department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr Arche was awarded the Early Career Research Excellent Award from the University of Greenwich in 2009.
At the moment she is developing a project about the structure of adjectives together with Rafael Marin [University of Lille] and Antonio Fabregas [University of Tromso], funded by the University of Greenwich.
- 2011: "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: 8396.