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. 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. 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. Recent peer-reviewed journal articles 1. Hodges, L., Knouse, S., and Gupton, T. (2023). La lingüística y sus beneficios para la enseñanza del español. Hispanic Studies Review 7(2), 1-22. 2. Gupton, T. (2023). El foco, la estructura informativa y el ser focalizador en el español cibaeño. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 41, 143-166. 3. Levishna, N., Namboodiripad, S., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Kramer, M., Talamo, L., Verkerk, A., Wilmoth, S., Garrido Rodriguez, G., Gupton, T., Kidd, E., Liu, Z., Naccarato, C., Nordlinger, R., Panova, A., and Stoynova, N. (2023). Why we need a gradient approach to word order. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 61(4), 825-883. 4. Gupton, T., and Sánchez-Calderón, S. (2023). Focus at the syntax-discourse interface in Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered. Second Language Research 39(1), 185-229. 5. Gravely, B., and Gupton, T. (2022). Nanoparameters in Western Iberian Romance: Null copulas in Galician and Asturian. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(1)/16, 1-31. Peer-reviewed book chapters 1. Gupton, T. (2021). Aligning syntax and prosody in Galician, in Gupton, T., & Gielau, E., (eds), 41-67. East and West of the Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky. John Benjamins. 2. Leal, T., and Gupton, T. (2021). Acceptability experiments in Romance Languages. In Grant Goodall (ed.), 448-476. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge University Press. 3. Gupton, T. 2018. "Syntax and Its Interfaces". In Geeslin, Kim (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics, 392-414. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 4. 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. Courses Taught Courses Taught: SPAN(LING) 3050 LING 3150 SPAN(LING) 6750 SPAN(LING)4651 LING 4652 SPAN(LING) 8010
