Contact details
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Christopher John Pountain, MA PhD (Cambridge)
Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Department of Hispanic Studies
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0)20 7882 8323
Fax +44 (0)20 8980 5400
E-mail c.j.pountain@qmul.ac.uk
Office: Arts Building 1.24
Learning support
- Courses
Introduction to Hispanic Studies
Spanish Today
The Romance Languages
Historical Linguistics
Spanish III
Varieties of Spanish
Language Variety and Change
Postgraduate training (Using IT)
- Guides to internet resources
The Spanish language page
The Portuguese language page
- General
Glossary of Spanish linguistic terms
Spanish Grammar Survival Kit
Phonetic alphabets and fonts
Research
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My current research interests are register in the history of Spanish,
learned syntactic borrowing in the Romance languages and the role of
pragmatic factors in syntactic change. Click here for
a list of my publications.
The Romance Linguistics Seminar (RLS)
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A meeting of Romance linguists from the UK and overseas, held in early
January in Cambridge. Click here to
access the RLS home page.