Dr. Luis González

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Office: Greene 534

Phone: (336) 758-5428

E-mail: gonzall@wfu.edu

www.wfu.edu/~gonzall

Education

• Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, University of California at Davis, 1997
• M.A., Foreign Languages, West Virginia University, 1986
• B.A., Spanish and Literature, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia, 1981

Research Interests

• Spanish applied linguistics
• Syntactic theory
• Syntax and semantics
• Language teaching technology

Courses Taught

• Spanish 111, 112: Elementary Spanish I and II
• Spanish 219: Spanish Grammar and Composition
• Spanish 319: Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
• Spanish 380: Spanish/English Contrasts and Stylistics

Departmental Activities

• Chair of the Online Foreign Language Placement Exam

Representative Publications

• Whitley, M. Stanley, and Luis González, Gramática para la composición , Georgetown University Press, 2000
• González, Luis, and M. Stanley Whitley, "'Lo' es: Un clítico anómalo en la teoría de roles," Hispania, May 1999
• "Accusative/Dative Alternations in G ustar-type Verbs," Studies in Applied Linguistics 2:2 (1998), 137-167
• Becerra, Servio, and Luis González, "Teaching the Spanish Subjunctive: Why Not from the Concrete to the Abstract?," Proceedings of the YSU's 21st Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures, May 1998
• "El leísmo hispano. Un análisis basado en roles temáticos," Linguística y Literatura 32 (1997), 97-114