Pluricentric Languages in the Americas

The editors: Rudolf Muhr is Professor em. of Graz University and head of the Austrian German Research Centre in Graz. He is also Coordinator of the "International Working Group on Non-dominant Varieties of Phiricentric Languages”. His research is focused on pluricentric languages and the description of Austrian German. Maria Eugenia Lammoglia Duarte is full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil) and holds a research grant from the National Council of Research (CNPq). She studies syntactic change in varieties of Portuguese and other Romance Languages. Cilene Rodrigues is an Associate Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research centers around comparative syntax, particularly on languages of South America. Juan Thomas is Associate Professor of Spanish at Utica College in Utica New York, US. The focus of his research is on Spanish in the US, Languages in contact (Hispanic, Italian, Galician).