Education

Research

Research interests

• Hispanic linguistics
• Morphology, lexical semantics
• Voseo in Latin America
• Corpus linguistics
• Conceptual Structure

Select publications

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• Carlos Benavides (2022).
  Morphology Within the Parallel Architecture Framework
  Isogloss: Journal of Romance Linguistics, 8, 1-87.
  
• Carlos Benavides (2015).
  Using a Corpus in a 300-level Spanish Grammar Course.
  Foreign Language Annals , 48(2), 218-235.
  
• Carlos Benavides (2014).
  Lexicalization and Spanish Derivational Morphology
  Research in Corpus Linguistics, 2, 1-14.
  
• Carlos Benavides (2010).
  El componente semántico Trayectoria y los verbos de movimiento en español.”
  Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 28(2), 67-82.
  

Dr. Carlos Benavides is Professor of Spanish/Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has been an educator for over 40 years. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Iowa, his MA, also in Linguistics, from the University of Texas at El Paso, and holds a BA in Business Management from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.

At UMass Dartmouth he has taught a wide range of Spanish language, culture, literature, and linguistics courses at the graduate, advanced, intermediate, and elementary levels (ex. Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Spanish, Medical Spanish, Spanish Composition and Conversation, Business Spanish). He has consistently incorporated service-learning projects in his courses for over 18 years, has made significant contributions in promoting the institutionalization of this teaching methodology at UMass Dartmouth, and has received awards for sustained effort in this area. He was the recipient of the 2018 Faculty Civic Leadership Award for his significant contributions to advance UMass Dartmouth's mission of promoting engaged learning, and he was nominated by a student for the campus-wide 2018 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching, for his “unique teaching strategies and great enthusiasm for education and multiculturalism.”

Dr. Benavides’ research interests include diverse areas of Hispanic linguistics, morphology, lexical semantics, and the linguistic and cultural implications of the use of voseo in different Hispanic countries. His publications and book reviews have appeared in prestigious journals, and he published a book on meaning in word formation in Spanish. He has delivered conference presentations at regional, national and international venues. He actively participates in non-profit community organizations and is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), where he served as College/University Representative on the Board of Directors.

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