Summary

Ignacio Montoya is an assistant professor of linguistics in the English w88 mobile at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Prior to his w88 mobile work in linguistics, he taught in a wide variety of elementary and middle school classrooms and was motivated to pursue a Ph.D. in linguistics in part by his experiences as an educator. As a linguist, he approaches theoretical problems from functionalist perspectives in which findings in applied fields inform theory. In addition, he has interests in and experiences with endangered language revitalization and heritage language maintenance.

Research interests

• Morphology
• Phonology
• Cognitive and usage-based approaches to grammar
• w88 mobile variation and change
• Indigenous languages of North America
• Romance and Semitic w88 mobile families

Recent publications

• Montoya, w88 mobile L. (2016). A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: Exploring a remnant approach to defining roots. Proceedings w88 mobile 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting.
• Montoya, w88 mobile L. (2014). Getting your gutturals out of the mind: An assessment of the role of phonology in the patterns of historical gutturals in Modern Hebrew, w88 mobile of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 20(1), Article 25.
• Blanchette, Frances & Montoya, w88 mobile (2014). Using elicited repetition to test copula knowledge in bilingual and monolingual two-year-olds, Proceedings Supplement of the Boston w88 mobile Conference on Language Development, Volume 38.

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, w88 mobile, City University of New York, 2017
• M.A., Linguistics, w88 mobile, City University of New York, 2013
• M.A., Educational Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia w88 mobile, 2007
• B.A., Psychology, Harvard College, 1997