Lotfi Sayahi, Ph.D.    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1999)                                                              

Associate  Professor of Linguistics

Hispanic and Italian Studies
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The University at Albany, State University of New York

 

Research interests

Sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; language variation and change; variation in L2

Selected Publications

 

Articles

  1. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2007. Diglossia and contact-induced language change. International Journal of Multilingualism 4 (1). 38-51.
  2. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2006. Phonetic features of northern Moroccan Spanish. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 8. 167-180.
  3. Sayahi, Lotfi. (forthcoming) Bargaining in two languages: conversational functions of transactional code-switching. In Adams, N., A. Cooper, F. Parrill, and T. Wier (eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
  4. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2005a. Final /s/ retention and deletion in Spanish: the role of the speaker's type of competence. Journal of Language Science 27 (5). 515-529.
  5. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2005b. Language and identity among speakers of Spanish in Northern Morocco: between ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation. Journal of Sociolinguistics 9 (1). 95-107.
  6. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2005c. El español en el norte de Marruecos: historia y análisis. Hispanic Research Journal 6 (3). 195-207.
  7. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2005d. Phonological adaptation of Spanish loanwords in Northern Moroccan Arabic. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (1). 253-263.
  8. Thomas, Juan Antonio, and Lotfi Sayahi. 2005. Morphophonological and semantic adaptation of Arabisms in Galician. Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa 33. 23-42.
  9. Scipione, Ruth and Lotfi Sayahi. 2005. Consonantal Variation of Spanish in Northern Morocco. In Sayahi, L., and M. Westmoreland (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 127-132.
  10. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2004a. 'Aquí todo el mundo hablaba español': History of the Spanish language in Tangier. Journal of North African Studies 9 (1). 36-48.
  11. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2004b. The Spanish language presence in Tangier, Morocco: a sociolinguistic perspective. Afro-Hispanic Review 23 (2), 54-61.
  12. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2004c. Social identity and code-switching in bilingual contexts: a comparative approach. In Ashley, L., and W. Finke (eds.), Language and Identity: Selected Papers of the International Conference, October 2-5, 2002. East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway Publishers. 373-381.
  13. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2003a. On hitistes, beznessa, and harraga: linguistic innovation in postcolonial North Africa. CELAAN Review 2. 120-132.
  14. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2003b. La conservación del artículo 'al' en las palabras españolas de origen árabe. In Álvarez Martínez, M. and M. Villarrubia Zúñiga (eds.), Actas del II Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Coreana de Hispanistas. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá. 105-112.
  15. Sayahi, Lotfi. 2001. Understanding Linguistic Normalization: Sociolinguistic evidence in Valencia. In McClive, T., and T. McDaniels (eds.), Proceedings from the 2001 Niagara Linguistic Society. Buffalo: University at Buffalo. 79-90.

 

Edited volumes

  1. Holmquist, Jonathan, Augusto Lorenzino, and Lotfi Sayahi (eds.). 2007. Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. viii + 192 pages.
  2. Sayahi, Lotfi, and Maurice Westmoreland (eds.). 2005. Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. vii + 132 pages.
  3. Sayahi, Lotfi (ed.). 2003. Selected Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. vii + 133 pages

Teaching

Graduate courses usually taught

 

 

Links

Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

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