John M. Lipski is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B. A. from Rice University, and his M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Alberta. He has taught at Newark State College/Kean College of New Jersey, Michigan State University, The University of Houston, The University of Florida, and The University of New Mexico. His research interests include Spanish phonology, Spanish and Portuguese dialectology and language variation, the linguistic aspects of bilingualism, and the African contribution to Spanish and Portuguese. He has done fieldwork in Spain (including the Canary Islands), Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Philippines, Guam, and many Spanish-speaking communities within the United States. His books include Linguistic aspects of Spanish-English language switching; The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea; Fonética y fonología del español de Honduras; El español de Malabo; Latin American Spanish; The language of the Isleños of Louisiana; The speech of the Negros Congos of Panama; El español de América; El español en síntesis [with the late Eduardo Neale-Silva]; Varieties of Spanish in the United States [forthcoming]; A history of Afro-Hispanic language contact. He is the author of more than 200 articles on all aspects of linguistics, and has taught Spanish, Romance, and general linguistics, translation, language acquisition and methodology, Latin American literature, and a variety of language courses. He is also editor of the journal Hispanic Linguistics and has served as associate editor of Hispania for Theoretical Linguistics.
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John M. Lipski es catedrático de lingüística en el Departamento de Español, Italiano y Portugués de la Universidad del Estado de Pennsylvania (Penn State), Estados Unidos. Ha desempeñado la docencia en las universidades de Nuevo México, Florida, Houston, y el estado de Michigan. Es especialista en dialectología, contacto de lenguas, los aspectos formales del bilingüismo, lenguas criollas y los elementos africanos en el español y el portugués. Ha realizado investigaciones en España, Hispanoamérica (sobre todo el Caribe, México y Centroamérica), Africa, Filipinas y las varias comunidades hispanoparlantes dentro de los Estados Unidos. Además de mas de 200 artículos, ha publicado los siguientes libros: Linguistic aspects of Spanish-English language switching; The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea; Fonética y fonología del español de Honduras; El español de Malabo; Latin American Spanish; The language of the Isleños of Louisiana; The speech of the Negros Congos of Panama; El español de América; El español en síntesis [con Eduardo Neale-Silva]; Varieties of Spanish in the United States [de próxima publicación]; A history of Afro-Hispanic language contact.