Yliana Rodríguez is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). During her BA and MA studies, she looked into the different ways in which languages borrow words from each other based on the idea that linguistic evidence, in the form of loanwords, can show the appearance of new ideas and things in the course of history of a society. For her doctoral research she is now focused on studying Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands (one of the few native English varieties of the Southern Hemisphere) with an innovative mixed methods approach.

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Fields of interest

• Contact linguistics
• Language contact in South America
• Loanwords
• Language attitudes
• Language awareness
• Toponymy
• Lexicology
• Socio-historical linguistics
• Rioplatense Spanish
• Adult Education
• Foreign language education
• Cognitive sciences
• Semantics

Education

• 2016 MA in Human Sciences (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

• 2012 BA in Linguistics (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

• 2009 Diploma in Educational Psychology (Universidad Católica Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, Uruguay)

• 2002 Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Trinity College London, England)

Links

• 2020 - Apócope, metátesis, solecismo y otros cinco "vicios del lenguaje" que tal vez uses sin saberlo BBC MUNDO
• 2019 - Palabras polisémicas: ¿qué son y cómo las usas diariamente sin que te des cuenta? BBC MUNDO
• 2018 - ¿De dónde viene la palabra ’che’? BBC MUNDO
• 2017 - Cancha, pucho, carpa y otras palabras que usas a diario y que quizá no sabías que provienen del quechua. BBC MUNDO
• 2017 - Hoosegow, lariat, quadroon y otras palabras en inglés que no creerías que vienen del español. BBC MUNDO