MARTHA MENDOZA
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley
Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Linguistics
Hispanic Linguistics
Mesoamerican languages
E-mail: mmendoza@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561.297.3860
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Dr. Martha Mendoza teaches Linguistics and Spanish Linguistics. She has taught courses on History of Spanish, Structure of Spanish, Spanish Morpho-Syntax, Spanish Phonology & Dialectology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Grammaticalization, Cognitive Linguistics, Typology, and Endangered Languages, among others. Her research fields include linguistic politeness, grammaticalization, language contact, bilingualism, spatial language, Nahuatl, P'urhepecha, and Spanish varieties.
In Spring 2006, Dr. Mendoza was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught Hispanic Linguistics. In 2008, she won the award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Advising.
In Fall 2019, Dr. Mendoza delivered a Keynote address titled Grammars of Space: The Case of Nahuatl and P'urhepecha at the I Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios听Ling眉铆sticos (JELing 2019), held at the National University of Cuyo in Argentina.
Currently, she is working on the compilation of a bilingual dictionary P鈥檜rhepecha-Spanish.
Some of her publications are:
Bellamy, K., & Mendoza, M. (2024). The language of texture in P'urhepecha: Initial observations. LIAMES, 24, 1-20.
Mendoza, M. (2022)
. Rasgos l茅xicos y morfosint谩cticos del espa帽ol en el pur茅pecha:
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Un ejemplo de contacto ling眉铆stico en el oeste de M茅xico. In L. Zaj铆cov谩 (Ed.),听
Lenguas ind铆genas de Am茅rica Latina: Contextos, contactos, conflictos
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Bellamy, K., & Mendoza, M. (2021). Body-part terms and morphological complexity in P鈥檜rhepecha. Cahiers de Lexicologie, 119(2), 51-71.
Mendoza, M. (2019). Spatial Language and the Use of Body-Part Terms in Nahuatl and P'urhepecha. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 5, 6(1), 37-50.
Mendoza, M. (2017). La conceptualizaci贸n ling眉铆stica del paisaje: El caso del pur茅pecha. In M. Bortolon, E. del C. P茅rez, M. Montes & P. Garc铆a Ficarra (Eds.), Aportes a la ling眉铆stica cognitiva (pp. 263-277). C贸rdoba, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba.Mendoza, M. (2016). Spanish and P'urhepecha: Mutual Influences in an Ongoing Case of Language Contact in Central Western Mexico. Thesaurus, 58, 156-179.
Mendoza, M. (2016). Politeness Strategies in a Mesoamerican Language Isolate: The Case of P'urhepecha. L铆nguas Ind铆genas Americanas, 16(1), 139-156.
Mendoza, M. (2012). La gram谩tica de las partes del cuerpo: Un breve estudio de los sufijos corporales del pur茅pecha. In G. E. M眉ller, L. Mi帽ones & V. Barbeito (Eds.), Estudios de ling眉铆stica cognitiva (pp. 163-171). Mendoza, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
Mendoza, M. (2007). Derivational Resources in P'urhepecha: Morphological Complexity and Verb Formation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 54(2), 157-172.
Mendoza, M. (2006). Spatial Language in Tarascan: Body Parts, Shape, and the Grammar of Location. In Z. Antic et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp. 237-249). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Mendoza, M. (2005). Polite Diminutives in Spanish: A Matter of Size? In S. Ide & R. Lakoff (Eds.), Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness (pp. 163-173). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.听 听 听 听