Matthew J. Burner

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Curriculum vitae
burnermj@eckerd.edu
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Education

  • Ph.D., Spanish (Linguistics Track), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A., Spanish, University of Central Florida
  • B.A., Spanish, University of Central Florida

Courses taught

  • Elementary Spanish
  • Intermediate Spanish
  • Spanish for the Professions
  • Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

Research

As a theoretical linguist, I specialize in phenomena related to noun morphology, syntactic versus semantic agreement, and interpretation. For those outside of my field, I’m interested in the nuts and bolts that make up nouns and adjectives and how both expected and unexpected situations arise in natural language.

I mainly work on Asturian, a minoritized language spoken in northern Spain, and other Romance languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. I love my research because it allows me to explore the inner workings of language and grammar. It also provides me with opportunities to work with underrepresented languages and document the findings.

Selected publications

  • Burner, M.J. (2024). [Review of the book The Asturian Language: Distinctiveness, Identity, and Officiality, by A. Corral Esteban (Ed.)]. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI), 22(43), 181-183.
  • Burner, M. (2024). Online Corpus of Written Asturian. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11317042
  • Burner, M.J. (2022). Las vocales temáticas en castellano y asturiano: Un recurso para la interpretación semántica. In E. Torre (Ed.), El mapa lingüístico del noroccidente ibérico: Contacto, variación y cambio (pp. 79-97). Lincom.
  • Biedny, J., Burner, M., Cudworth, A. & Macaulay, M. (2021). Classifier Medials across Algonquian: A First Look. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL), 87:1, 1-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/711606

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