Research and teaching Español
The main field of my research has been so far the Spanish West in Antiquity, mainly its onomastic features. Directly related to this region, the Lusitanian language and its problems (practical and methodological) are also a challenge for me. In my case, the onomastic research was aided by a predoctoral stay at the Institut Ausonius of Bordeaux (formerly Centre Pierre Paris), where I engaged with a group of scholars who shared a project: the Roman Lusitania. The result of this cooperation was born in 2003 as Atlas antroponímico de la Lusitania romana, a sample of what an international and interdisciplinary work may develop.
My contact with the group was renewed by a postdoctoral fellowship that I enjoyed there, and sought to promote a Gaulish onomastics update similar to what in recent decades in the Iberian Peninsula had taken place. Parallel to this research, the academic relationship between Institute Ausonius and University of the Basque Country was brewing, what can be seen in some collaborative works between Milagros Navarro, Joaquín Gorrochategui and myself.
For me it has been an interesting topic the relationship established between personal onomastics and language, and we can see how the language features the onomastics, and conversely, how onomastics can approach us to the language .
The exciting world of language reconstruction (protolanguages, poorly attested languages) has led me to deal with some issues in Romance historical linguistics and the method problems involved in their study.
One way or another I have been linked to university teaching since 1997. Some of the disciplines I have tought have been more linked than others to my research, but all of them have served in my training as a teacher and researcher:
-Palaeohispanic Languages (Pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula)
-Historical and Comparative Linguistics
-Indo-European Linguistics
-Continental Celtic Languages
-Italic Dialectology
-Germanic Linguistic
-History of Ancient Germanic Literatures
My contact with the group was renewed by a postdoctoral fellowship that I enjoyed there, and sought to promote a Gaulish onomastics update similar to what in recent decades in the Iberian Peninsula had taken place. Parallel to this research, the academic relationship between Institute Ausonius and University of the Basque Country was brewing, what can be seen in some collaborative works between Milagros Navarro, Joaquín Gorrochategui and myself.
For me it has been an interesting topic the relationship established between personal onomastics and language, and we can see how the language features the onomastics, and conversely, how onomastics can approach us to the language .
The exciting world of language reconstruction (protolanguages, poorly attested languages) has led me to deal with some issues in Romance historical linguistics and the method problems involved in their study.
One way or another I have been linked to university teaching since 1997. Some of the disciplines I have tought have been more linked than others to my research, but all of them have served in my training as a teacher and researcher:
-Palaeohispanic Languages (Pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula)
-Historical and Comparative Linguistics
-Indo-European Linguistics
-Continental Celtic Languages
-Italic Dialectology
-Germanic Linguistic
-History of Ancient Germanic Literatures