Manuel Delicado Cantero

Dr. Manuel Delicado Cantero is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics) at the Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics. He holds a PhD from The Ohio State University (2009) and academic qualifications from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His research focuses on historical syntax of Spanish, marginal grammatical structures, and Romance linguistics. He has published extensively in leading journals and co-authored a monograph in the Oxford Studies series. Dr. Cantero has supervised numerous PhD and MA students, with topics ranging from Syriac linguistics to Chinese implicit imperatives. He received the Office for Learning and Teaching Award (2012) for enhancing learning in the Spanish Program. His editorial roles include membership on the boards of Isogloss and Cumieira das Letras. Current projects include edited volumes on diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages and theoretical perspectives on marginal structures.

Education: PhD in Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics), The Ohio State University (2009); Licenciatura and DEA in Spanish Philology, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

Research interests include historical syntax, formal syntax, language change, Romance linguistics, and bilingual grammatical structures. His recent work explores differential object marking in Galician-Spanish bilinguals and syntactic analyzability in diachrony. He has delivered invited lectures at institutions like UNAM, Mexico.

Supervision highlights include completed PhDs on Saudi EFL pronunciation and Syriac definiteness, with ongoing projects on implicit negatives in Chinese and clausal nominalization in Spanish/Portuguese.

Labs/Teams: Active in ANU's Linguistics program, contributing to cross-disciplinary courses like LANG3007 Romance Linguistics. Engaged in pedagogical innovation, including online video resources for language learners.