Contact
| Dept: | World Languages And Cultures |
| Email: | lamberti@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 3242 Pearson |
| Phone: | N/A |
| Vita: | https://iastate.box.com/s/nd1polrpcgsij5fm76ua00u8czzn80c8 |
Bio
My research explores the sociolinguistic dynamics of contact-induced change in Portuguese and Spanish, with a focus on Afro-Iberian varieties. I have conducted extensive, long-term fieldwork in the Helvécia community (Bahia, Brazil), documenting Helvécian Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. Additionally, I have worked with other Afro-Iberian varieties, including Afro-Bolivian Spanish and African Portuguese. My recent work investigates the typological influences of Niger-Congo languages, particularly Yorùbá and Bantu, on these Afro-Iberian varieties. This includes the impact on morphosyntactic structures such as ditransitives and negation patterns in Helvécian Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic varieties. I am also co-editing a multilingual edited volume that introduces and examines several Afro-varieties of Portuguese and Spanish.Grants and Awards
- Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Initiative Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University
- Research Grant from the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University
- Ty Henderson Grant, World Languages and Cultures Department, Iowa State University
- Morris and Anita Broad Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University
- Presidential Fellowship Award, Graduate School, The Ohio State University
Recent / Major Publications
Published Edited Volumes- Forthcoming. Lamberti, Luana and Agostinho, Ana Lívia. Afro-Iberian Languages: Contact and Sociohistory. Contact and Multilingualism Series. Language Science Press. (Expected December 2024).
Peer Reviewed Articles
In preparation. Lamberti, Luana. Negation Patterns in Helvécian Portuguese: Pragmatic Constraints and Contact. To be submitted to Journal of Pragmatics.
In preparation. Lamberti, Luana. Examining the Typological Implications of Contact: A Study of Ditransitive Constructions in Helvécian Portuguese. To be submitted to Language Variation and Change.
Under Review. Lamberti, Luana. Location Marking in Helvécian Portuguese: A Case of Contact-Induced Change. Submitted to Journal of Language Contact.
Under Review. Dickinson, Kendra V., Lamberti, Luana, and Schwenter, Scott. Evaluating the form of third-person anaphoric direct objects in Portuguese: A cross-dialectal study. Submitted to Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.
2024. Lamberti, Luana. Language Ideologies and Dialect Shift in Helvécian Portuguese. Sociolinguistica. 38(1), 77-103. De Gruyter. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soci-2023-0024/html)
2022. Lamberti, Luana and Raynor, Eliot. Substrate influences in highland Spanish varieties of South America: Afro-Yungueño and Antioqueño from a comparative perspective. Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles. 12(2022), 1-54. (http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-12-2022/substrate-influences-in-highland-spanish-varieties-of-south-america)
2021. Agostinho, Ana Lívia, Lamberti, Luana, and Ferreira dos Santos, Eduardo. Concordância de gênero em português: aproximações entre variedades africanas e afro-brasileira. Revista do Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo. 18(3), 40-69.
2021. Lamberti, Luana and Salgado, Hugo. The Future Repeats itself: Priming Effects in Spanish Future Expressions. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Linguística. 19(1), 1-18.