Anna María EscobarAnna María Escobar is Professor of Spanish, Linguistics, French, and SLATE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the socio-historical dynamics of morpho-syntactic and semantic change in language contact contexts. She hs published two books on Andean Spanish (1990, 2000), co-written a book on Spanish of the U.S. (2015, with Kim Potowski), and edited a book on language contact in Latin America (2009, with Wolfgang Wölck). Presently, she is co-editing The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact (with Salikoko Mufwene), co-editing a book on Spanish diversity in the Amazon (co-edited with Margarita Jara, Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar Valenzuela), and working on an historical sociolinguistic book project on the development of subjectivity and evidentiality in Spanish-Quechua contact. Read More Read Less