Portrait of Dr. Martha Mendoza

Martha Mendoza, Ph.D

Professor

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

mmendoza@fau.edu
561.297.3860

Boca Raton Campus

About

Dr. Martha Mendoza teaches Linguistics and Spanish Linguistics. She has taught courses on History of Spanish, Structure of Spanish, Spanish Morpho-Syntax, Spanish Phonology & Dialectology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Grammaticalization, Cognitive Linguistics, Typology, and Endangered Languages, among others. Her research fields include linguistic politeness, grammaticalization, language contact, bilingualism, spatial language, Nahuatl, P'urhepecha, and Spanish varieties.

In Spring 2006, Dr. Mendoza was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught Hispanic Linguistics. In 2008, she won the award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Advising.

In Fall 2019, Dr. Mendoza delivered a Keynote address titledÌýGrammars of Space: The Case of Nahuatl and P'urhepechaÌýat theÌýI Jornadas Internacionales de EstudiosÌýLingüísticosÌý(JELing 2019), held at the National University of Cuyo in Argentina.

Currently, she is working on the compilation of a bilingual dictionary P’urhepecha-Spanish.

Publications

Bellamy, K., & Mendoza, M. (2024). The language of texture in P'urhepecha: Initial observations.ÌýLIAMES,Ìý24, 1-20.

Mendoza, M. (2022)Ìý. Rasgos léxicos y morfosintácticos del español en el purépecha:ÌýÌýÌýUn ejemplo de contacto lingüístico en el oeste de México. In L. Zajícová (Ed.),ÌýÌýLenguas indígenas de América Latina: Contextos, contactos, conflictosÌýÌý(pp. 135-151). Madrid/Frankfurt: Editorial Iberoamericana/Vervuert.

Bellamy, K., & Mendoza, M. (2021). Body-part terms and morphological complexity in P’urhepecha.ÌýCahiers de Lexicologie,Ìý119(2), 51-71.

Mendoza, M. (2019). Spatial Language and the Use of Body-Part Terms in Nahuatl and P'urhepecha. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 5, 6(1), 37-50.

Mendoza, M. (2017). La conceptualización lingüística del paisaje: El caso del purépecha. In M. Bortolon, E. del C. Pérez, M. Montes & P. García Ficarra (Eds.),ÌýAportes a la lingüística cognitivaÌý(pp. 263-277). Córdoba, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Mendoza, M. (2017). La recreación literaria de un dialecto:ÌýCuentos de barroÌýde Salarrué.ÌýKáñina, 41(2), 143-157. ISSN 0378-0473.

Mendoza, M. (2016). Spanish and P'urhepecha: Mutual Influences in an Ongoing Case of Language Contact in Central Western Mexico.ÌýThesaurus, 58, 156-179.

Mendoza, M. (2016). Politeness Strategies in a Mesoamerican Language Isolate: The Case of P'urhepecha.ÌýLínguas Indígenas Americanas, 16(1), 139-156.

Mendoza, M. (2012). La gramática de las partes del cuerpo: Un breve estudio de los sufijos corporales del purépecha. In G. E. Müller, L. Miñones & V. Barbeito (Eds.),ÌýEstudios de lingüística cognitivaÌý(pp. 163-171). Mendoza, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
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Mendoza, M. (2011). Size Matters: Grammaticalization, Metaphor, and the Spanish Diminutive.ÌýEstudios de Lingüística Aplicada, 29(54), 135-157.Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
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Mendoza, M. (2007). Derivational Resources in P'urhepecha: Morphological Complexity and Verb Formation.ÌýActa Linguistica Hungarica, 54(2), 157-172.

Mendoza, M. (2006). Spatial Language in Tarascan: Body Parts, Shape, and the Grammar of Location. In Z. Antic et al. (Eds.),ÌýProceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics SocietyÌý(pp. 237-249). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.


Mendoza, M. (2005). Polite Diminutives in Spanish: A Matter of Size? In S. Ide & R. Lakoff (Eds.),ÌýBroadening the horizon of linguistic politenessÌý(pp. 163-173). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý

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