Israel Sanz-Sanchez

Israel Sanz-Sanchez
  • Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
  • Department: Languages and Cultures
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: ISanz-Sanchez@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
  • M.A., San Diego State University
  • B.A., Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

Research Interests

Spanish linguisticsHistorical dialectologySociolinguisticsLanguage and dialect contactLanguage ideologies

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: Yes

If you are interested in working with colonial Spanish archival data, contact me! (funds may be available depending on the semester, but cannot be guaranteed).

Biography

Ι'm a historical sociolinguist that works on the history of Spanish in Latin America and the United States.

List of Publications

  • Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. 2025. Spanish as a Contact Language: An Ecological History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
  • Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.). 2024. Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Vol. 14, Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • Sanz-Sánchez, Israel, and María Irene Moyna. 2023. Children as agents of language change: Diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish phonology. Journal of Historical Linguistics 13.3: 327-374
  • Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. 2019. Documenting feature pools in language expansion situations: Sibilants in early colonial Latin American Spanish. Transactions of the Philological Society 117:2: 199-233.

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