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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Explicit Performatives in Old Saxon and Old High German: A Comparative Study, International Review of Pragmatics,17(1), 2025; https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01701003

Corpus applications in ELT in Colombia: An exploratory survey, with Rodriguez Rodriguez. Profiles: Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development; 27(1), 2025; https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v27n1.112653

Exploring Emoji Usage in Intercultural CMC: Insights from Colombian and Argentinian Learners of German, with Carlos Raffo. Intercultural Pragmatics; 21(5), 2024; https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2024-5002

The Effect of Extralinguistic Variables on Verb Selection in Italian Requests. With Bruno Staszkiewicz Garcia y Lori Czerwionka. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2023-0009.

Academic Writing and Identity: a cross-generational study on evaluative discourse in academic papers.

With Jesus David Guerra Lyons. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 10(1), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2022-0034

Vocabulary Instructions in Textbooks of Italian as a Foreign Language: A Descriptive Analysis. With Sara Noli. European Journal of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2022-0034

‘Ih gebiude dir, wurm!’ Directives in Old Saxon and Old High German. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 25(1), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.20012.con

Thanking in Old Saxon and Old High German. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics. 19(1), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2023-0009

Werden and the Periphrases with Present Participles and Infinitive Verbs: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 34(1), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542721000064

The Pragmatic Dimension of Grammatical Tenses: A case study of the German Perfekt and Präteritum. Linguistic Frontiers, 4(2), 2021. https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2021-0015

Implications of Grammaticalization for Language Change: The Grammaticalization of the German Present Perfect and the Emergence of the Double Perfect Constructions. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 80, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340190

A Qualitative Analysis of Listening Activities for German as a Foreign Language. German as a Foreign Language, 1, 2020.

Temporal Deixis in Old Saxon and Old High German: The Adverb nu in the Hêliand and Evangelienbuch. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 141(2), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2019-0012

Toward the German Present Perfect as an Emergent Structure. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 21(1), 2016.

The Rich-Get-Richer Phenomenon and Language Evolution: The case of the German Present Perfect. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle,25 (2), 2015.

Book Chapters

When the Germans Became ‘Polite’: Direct and Indirect Strategies in the Middle and Early New High German Corpora. In Kim Ridealgh; Luis Unceta Gómez; and Annick Paternoster (eds): Re(de)fining a field: Current Perspectives on Historical (Im)politeness, from Ancient to Modern. John Benjamins series Pragmatics and Beyond, forthcoming.

Peer-Reviewed Book Reviews

Linguistische Styl- und Textanalyse. Linguistic List, 2017.

Web-Based Publications

The Sardinia Literary Spring and Intergenerational Transmission. Paper presented at the Fourth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium: Language and Identity. Journal of Home Language Research (JHLR), 2018.

Turn construction units and overlaps among speakers of different L1s. LSUGA Conference Proceedings of 3rd Linguistic Conference at the University of Georgia, 2017.

The Speaking Birds: A Cognitive Approach to the Symbolic Representation of Animals in Literature. Proceedings of 1st Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference (PLCC), 2016.

Other Publications

Widerstandsliteratur und die heutige Gesellschaft – Ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Jennifer Marston William, Germanistin an der Purdue University, Indiana, USA, with Jennifer William and Ana María Carvajal Jaramillo. Das Argonautenschiff, Yearbook of the Anna Segher’s Society, 25, 2017.

Memories in Translation, Part I: Oskar Gerber Testimonial and the Italian Holocaust. The North Meridian Review, 1, 2020.

Memories in Translation, Part II: Hertha Gerber Testimonial and the Italian Holocaust. The North Meridian Review, 1/2021.

The Forgotten Trials: A guided Translation of the Frankfurter Auschwitz Trials. The North Meridian Review, 3(2)/2023.