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Fabio Loporcaro

POSITION:
research assistant
Department of Spanish Linguistics, Institute of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Philology

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Job description

research assistant

Department of Spanish Linguistics

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

COURSES TAUGHT – FALL SEMESTER 2026/2027

  • Intercultural Pragmatics

  • Spanish for Specific Purposes

  • Practical Spanish – Integrated Skills 5

  • Practical Spanish – Integrated Skills 4

  • Practical Spanish – Integrated Skills 5

COURSES TAUGHT – SUMMER SEMESTER 2026/2027

  • History of the Spanish Language with Elements of Historical Grammar
  • Linguistic Analysis of Texts – Seminar (1)
  • Linguistic Analysis of Texts – Seminar (2)
  • Practical Spanish – Integrated Skills 6

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:


Conducts research in Spanish Linguistics, with particular emphasis on syntax and its interfaces with pragmatics and semantics from synchronic and diachronic perspectives, using corpus linguistic methods and experimental approaches. Applies the findings of this research to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, particularly through the critical analysis of curricula, textbooks and pedagogical grammars.


LATEST PUBLICATIONS

  • Loporcaro, F. (in press). From shell nouns to infinitival control: a Zipfian account of complement-clause evolution in causative sugerir following its late re-emergence in Spanish. Revue roumaine de linguistique.
  • Loporcaro, F. (2026). More infinitive, less subjunctive: a diachronic perspective on the integration of Spanish aconsejar and recomendar into the causative category. Folia Linguistica, 47. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2026-2002 

Office hours

research assistant

Department of Spanish Linguistics

CYCLICAL DUTY

WEDNESDAY

11:30 - 12:30

 

Pomorska 171/173 room: 4.40 90-236 Łódź

Contact

research assistant

Department of Spanish Linguistics

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Pomorska 171/173 , 90-236 Łódź, room: 4.40

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Funduszepleu
Projekt Multiportalu UŁ współfinansowany z funduszy Unii Europejskiej w ramach konkursu NCBR