Dr Enrique Palancar

Biography

• 1992. Honours B.A in English, The Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• 2000. Doctor in Philology (Linguistics), The Complutense University of Madrid. Summa cum Laude.
• 2002-2010. Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages and Literature, The Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico.
• 2010-2011. Visiting Reader, Surrey Morphology Group.
• 2011- Research fellow, Surrey Morphology Group.

External webpage: http://enriquepalancar.weebly.com/index.html

Research Interests

• Meso-American languages
• Oto-Manguean languages: Oto-Pamean, Otomi
• Autonomous morphology and morphosyntax
• Linguistic typology
• Historical linguistics

Publications

Books

• In preparation. Estudios de Morfosintaxis en Lenguas de Mesoamérica, Edited with Roberto Zavala, Mexico City: CIESAS, (To appear in 2012).
• 2009. Gramática y Textos del Hñöñhö: Otomí de San Ildefonso Tultepec, Queretaro
           [Volumen I: Gramática], Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés, ISBN 978-607-402-146-2, (xxiii + 597pp.)
           [Volumen II: Textos], Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés, ISBN 978-607-402-147-9, (v + 146pp. + CD)
                Award: 2010 Wigberto Jiménez Prize for best linguistics research by the National Institute for History and Anthropology of Mexico.
• 2002. The Origin of Agent Markers, [Studia Typologica 5], Berlin: Akademie Verlag, ISBN 3-05-003767-9, (310 pp.)
              Review: Holton, Gary. 2007. The Origin of Agent Markers, Language 83/1: 226-227
              Review: Maldonado, Ricardo. 2005. Enrique L. Palancar, The origin of agent markers. Studies in Language 29/2: 490-495
              Review: Luraghi, Silvia. 2004. Review of The Origin of Agent Markers, by Enrique L. Palancar. Language Typology, 8/1: 140–143

Most recent publications

• Accepted. “The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi: An approach from canonical typology”. To appear in Linguistics.
• 2011. “The Spanish loanword lado in Otomi” (with Néstor H. Green (first author) and Selene Hernández (third author), Language Sciences 33: 961-980.
• 2011 “Revisiting the conjugation classes of Eastern Highlands Otomi”, Language Typology and Universals  64: 213-236.
• 2011 “The conjugations of Colonial Otomi”, Transactions of the Philosophical Society 109: 1-19.
• 2011 “Oblique reflexives in Spanish: A constructional account of sí and sí mismo”, Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 23: 57-101.