Rena Torres Cacoullos

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Rena Torres Cacoullos (born in the USA) is an American linguist, novelist (hispanic) and university teacher.

Life and work
She was born as the daughter of Pachna (Cyprus) native mathematician and university teacher Theophilos N. Cacoullos (* 1932) and his wife, philosopher and university teacher Ann Rossettos in the United States. Torres Cacoullos has two sisters, Nike and Galatea Cacoullos.
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) for Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Previously in 1995 the Magister artium (M.A.) also in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Arizona, the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish, in 1993 at the Arizona State University.

Rena Torres Cacoullos is a linguist who became known for her work on “language variation”. In addition, she researches the process of grammalization. She is considered a leading expert on the specifics of the use of the Spanish language in New Mexico. Torres Cacoullos is a professor of Spanish linguistics at the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University.

Literature
Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2000, ISBN 1-5561-9938-4
Le: From pronoun to verbal intensifier. Linguistics 40 (2002).
From lexical to grammatical to social meaning. Language in Society (2001) 30.3: 443-78.
Variation and grammaticization in progressives: Spanish -ndo constructions. Studies in Language (1999) 23:1.25-59.
Construction frequency and reductive change: Diachronic and register variation in Spanish clitic climbing. Language Variation and Change (1999) 11:143-70.
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Esteban Hernández: A trabajarle: la construcción Intensiva en el español mexicano. Southwest Journal of Linguistics (1999) 18.2: 79-100.
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Fernanda Ferreira: Lexical frequency and voiced labiodental - bilabial variation in New Mexican Spanish. Southwest Journal of Linguistics (2000) 19.2:1-17.

Weblinks
Rena Torres Cacoullos. Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Pennsylvania State University, USA; official university website
New Mexico Spanish-English Codeswitching.
Photograph by Mrs. Rena Torres Cacoullos
Bibliography

Individual evidence

Romanesque
Hispanic
College teacher (Penn State)
Americans
Born in the 20th century
Woman