The Verb as a Predictor of Variable Pronominal Use in Spanish

Rafael Orozco is Professor of Linguistics and Spanish and Chair of the Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on sociolinguistics, Colombian and Caribbean Spanish, Spanish in the United States, language contact, forensic linguistics, and multilingualism.

Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese and Acting Co-Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. Specializes in syntax, with research on the Focalizing Ser structure, prosody in requests, Spanish word order, sociolinguistic variation in future tenses, and discourse markers.

Language Scientist (PhD, Boston University) with expertise in sociolinguistic research, dataset curation, and applied data science.