Alicia Cipria

Alicia Cipria is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the Department of Modern Languages & Classics of the University of Alabama. Her work focuses on theoretical and applied aspects of Spanish tense, aspect, and Aktionsart, contrasting Spanish and English linguistic structures, and examining language contact phenomena.

Education:

• PhD in Spanish Linguistics, Ohio State University

Her research spans from grammatical analysis of Spanish tenses to language identity in translation, with recent publications exploring the futurate use of the present progressive and marketing applications of neutral Spanish. Earlier work examined Volga German communities' linguistic loyalty in Argentina and perception verb semantics.

Selected Publications (2001–2021) reveal a focus on Spanish syntax, temporal interpretation, and cross-linguistic discourse patterns, with contributions to journals like Natural Language Semantics and edited volumes in Romance linguistics.