Associate Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages IMPORTANT NOTE: My home department is Romance Languages, and I teach for them primarily in Spanish. If you cannot take a course in Spanish, you will most likely not be able to take coursework with me. That said, if you are interested in having me on your doctoral or master's committee, please contact me. Also, if you are interested in multilingualism and heritage languages, please contact me or my co-organizer, Dr. Joshua Bousquette, to take part in the Heritage Languages Reading Group. We meet weekly during the academic year via Zoom with experts, colleagues, and interested graduate students at University of Florida, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and New Mexico State University. I am originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. I completed my BA in Romance Languages (Spanish & French) at UNLV in 1997 and my MA in Hispanic Linguistics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1999. I took a break from graduate studies from 2000-2005 and taught English in South Korea, working primarily at universities in Gwangju (Cheollanam-do). I returned to the US in 2005, when I started my PhD studies in Spanish Linguistics specializing in generative syntax at University of Iowa under the direction of Dr. Paula Kempchinsky. I graduated from Iowa in spring 2010 and started at UGA in fall 2010. As a theoretical and experimental syntactician, I am interested in how language is represented in the mind, in particular, the syntax of subjects, clitics and left-peripheral elements and their interaction with information structure. I employ a variety of experimental methods based primarily on generative second language acquisition research in order to elicit quantitative psycholinguistic judgment data. My current research interests include the prosody of contrast and CLLD in Galician and Spanish, the L2 acquisition of word order variation in Spanish, and subject positions and information structure in Dominican Spanish. To see more about my research, visit my Romance Languages homepage or my Research Gate page. I am a native speaker of English, and an Ln speaker of Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Galician (acquired to varying degrees in that order). I also have knowledge of Korean, Latin, and German. Education Education: 2010 - PhD in Spanish, University of Iowa 1999 - MA in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1997 - BA in Romance Languages, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Research Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition Syntax and Morphology Specific Research Areas: Syntax, Second language acquisition, Romance languages Grants: 2018 - Fulbright US Scholar Award (Dominican Republic) 2019 - National Science Foundation Conference Grant (LSRL 49) 2019 - UGA Willson Center for Humanities & Arts Public Impact Grant Selected Publications Selected Publications: Books 1. Gupton, T. 2014. The syntax-information structure interface: clausal word order and the left periphery in Galician. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter/Mouton. Peer-reviewed book chapters 1. Gupton, T. 2018. "Syntax and Its Interfaces". In Geeslin, Kim (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics, 392-414. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2. Gupton, T. 2017. “Early minority language acquirers of Spanish exhibit focus-related interface asymmetries: Word order alternation and optionality in Spanish-Catalan, Spanish-Galician, and Spanish-English bilinguals”. In Lauchlan, Fraser and María Carmen Parafita-Couto (eds.). Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe, 214-241. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Selected peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings 1. Knouse, Stephanie, T. Gupton, and Laurel Abreu. 2015. “Teaching Hispanic Linguistics: Strategies to Engage Learners”. Hispania 98(2), 319-332. 2. Gupton, T. 2014. “Preverbal Subjects in Galician: Experimental Data in the A vs. A’ Debate”. Probus 26(1), 135-175. 3. Gupton, T. and Sarah Lowman. 2013. “An F Projection in Cibeño Dominican Spanish”. In Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer, Gillian Lord, Ana de Prada Pérez, and Jessi Elana Aaron (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 338-348. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 4. Gupton, T. and Tania Leal Méndez. 2013. “Experimental Methodologies: Two Case Studies Investigating the Syntax-Discourse Interface”. Studies in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics 6(1), 139-164. (currently unavailable online since SHLL has moved to DeGruyter - contact me via email for this) 5. Gupton, T. 2012. “Object Clitics in Galician and Complications for Clausal Analyses”. In Geeslin, Kimberly and Manuel Díaz-Campos (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 272-284. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Book reviews 1. Gupton, T. 2018. Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis by Iván Ortega-Santos (review). Language 94(1), 225-228. Courses Taught Courses Taught: SPAN(LING) 3050 LING 3150 SPAN(LING) 6750 SPAN(LING)4651 LING 4652 ROML(LING) 8000 SPAN(LING) 8010