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Rafael Núñez Cedeño

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Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño (born in the Dominican Republic) is an American researcher and writer on Hispanic linguistics, with a special focus on its phonology and morphology. He is also known for his academic and general articles on the Spanish of the Dominican Republic. Núñez Cedeño is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1]

Career[edit]

Núñez Cedeño was co-founder and is a current co-editor of Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics, published in Berlin, Germany,[2] and served as associate editor of Signos Lingüísticos, Miríada Hispánica, Modern Language Journal and País Cultural and was also a member of the editorial board of Cuadernos de Poética.[3]

Nuñez Cedeño is an emeritus Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)[4] and has taught either as a Visiting Assistant Professor or Full Professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Indiana University, University of New Hampshire, Boston University, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad de los Andes[disambiguation needed] and Universidad de Maracaibo of Venezuela, Universidad Metropolitana Autónoma de Mexico, Colegio de Mexico, Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico and Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, of Santiago and Santo Domingo. He has been invited to conferences as a speaker and by selection in numerous academic institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain.

He is a Corresponding Member of the Dominican Academy of Language and an Active Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic.

Awards[edit]

In 1979 he received the Siboney Award,[5] in 1992 the Essay Award from the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña[6] with Morfología de la Sufijación Española and in 1994 the National Science Award from the Dominican Republic Academy of Sciences.[6]

Books[edit]

  • La Fonología Moderna y el Español de Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo: Editora Taller, 1979)[7]
  • Morfología de la Sufijación Española (Santo Domino: UNPHU 1993)[8]
  • Estudios sobre la Fonología del Español del Caribe(Caracas: Fundación Casa de Bello,1986)[9] *Studies in Romance Languages (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris Publications, 1987)[10]
  • Fonología Generativa Contemporánea de la Lengua Española (1st edition 6 1999, 2nd edition 2014, Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press)[11]
  • Language Knowledge and Use (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publications, 2003);[12]
  • The Syllable and Stress (Berlin: De Gruyter-Mouton, 2014)
  • Desarrollos y Procesos Lingüísticos en el Español Dominicano (Santo Domingo: Colección Bibliográfica del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, 2021).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael | Hispanic and Italian Studies". University of Illinois Chicago.
  2. ^ "Probus". De Gruyter.
  3. ^ Céspedes, Diógenes (December 2021). "Cuadernos de Poética" (PDF) (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. ISSN 0257-6457.
  4. ^ "Rafael Nunez Cedeno". UIC.
  5. ^ "Vicenzo Mastrolilli y los premios Siboney" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Diario Libre. December 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Biografia Rafael Núñez-Cedeño". Bachillere (in Spanish). April 2010.
  7. ^ Gutiérrez, John R. (1981). "Review of La fonología moderna y el español de Santo Domingo". Language. 57 (4): 971–971. doi:10.2307/414266. ISSN 0097-8507.
  8. ^ González-Bueno, Manuela (1995). "Review of Morfología de la sufijación española". Hispania. 78 (3): 521–522. doi:10.2307/345289. ISSN 0018-2133.
  9. ^ Gutiérrez, John R. (1988). "Review of Estudios sobre la fonología del español del Caribe". Hispania. 71 (4): 847–848. doi:10.2307/343297. ISSN 0018-2133.
  10. ^ Nuessel, Frank (1 May 1988). "Studies in Romance languages: Carol Neidle and Rafael A. Núñez-Cedeño (eds.), Publications in Language Science, 25. Dordrecht, The Netherlands/Providence, RI: Foris Publications. x+325 pp. Dfl. 110,—/U.S.$ 54.00 (cloth), Dfl. 75,—/ U.S.$29.90 (paperback)". Lingua. 75 (1): 85–96. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(88)90006-X. ISSN 0024-3841.
  11. ^ Díaz-Campos, Manuel (2016). "Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española by Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño, Sonia Colina and Travis Bradley (review)". Hispania. 99 (2): 359–360. ISSN 2153-6414.
  12. ^ Stolova, Natalya I (2006). "A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use (review)". Language. 82 (3): 691–691. ISSN 1535-0665.