Academics

Faculty & Staff

Esther Torrego, PhD

  • Professor Emerita, College of Liberal Arts, Latin American & Iberian Studies
  • Telephone: 617-287-7554
  • Office Location: McCormack Hall,04,00618

Areas of Expertise

Linguistic theory, Spanish Linguistics, comparative syntax of the Romance languages

Degrees

PhD (Romance Philology), Universidad Complutense de Madrid
ABD University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • “Variability in the Case Marking of Romance Causatives and Its Implications.” Linguistic Inquiry, Vol 41: 3, pp. 445-470, 2010.
  • “The Syntax of Valuation and the Interpretability of Features” (co-authored with David Pesetsky), Phrasal and Clausal Architecture. John Benjamins (S. Karimi, V. Samiian and W. Wilkins, eds.), pp. 262-294, 2007.
  • "Case". In C. Boeckx, ed. Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism (co-authored with David Pesetsky) pp. 52-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • “On Inversion in Spanish and Some of its Effects.” (1984). In Syntax, ed. by Robert Freidin and Howard Lasnik. New York, Routledge, vol. 4, pp. 362-393, 2006.
  • The Dependencies of Objects. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.
  • Review of Norvin Richards Uttering Trees. Language - Volume 87, Number 1, March 2011, pp. 224-227, 2011.

Additional Information

Professor Torrego was an Invited Professor in numerous Research Universities in the USA and abroad.  She was also an Ikerbasque Research Fellow, Basque Foundation of Science. UPV/EHU University of the Basque Country.