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Scott Schwenter is a Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics at The Ohio State University and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University (1998), an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of New Mexico (1993), and a B.A. in Spanish and Sociology from Saginaw Valley State University (1990).
His research focuses on variationist sociolinguistics and pragmatics, particularly in Spanish and Portuguese. Key interests include pronominal systems, negation in Romance languages, and corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation. He has led studies on topics such as 2SG direct object pronouns, variable agreement in Brazilian Portuguese, and negative concord phenomena.
Dr. Schwenter’s work emphasizes contextual conditioning of linguistic variables and multivariate statistical analysis. He has authored/co-authored over 140 papers and presented at numerous conferences. Recent publications explore negation patterns in Ibero-Romance languages and pronominal systems across dialects.
As CLAS Director, he oversees interdisciplinary Latin American studies programs, fosters campus-community partnerships, and supports scholarly collaboration. His administrative roles include leadership in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
