Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986

Dr. Diana L. Ranson has research interests in language change and variation in the Romance languages. She is the author of Change and Compensation: Parallel Weakening of /s/ in Italian, French, and Spanish (Peter Lang, 1989) and co-editor of Essays in Hispanic Linguistics Dedicated to Paul M. Lloyd (Juan de la Cuesta, 1999). Her two primary areas of published research include Spanish historical linguistics, with articles on velarization and posteriorization, compound tenses, epenthesis, and variation in voicing and syncope, and language variation and change, with articles on the morphological consequences of the weakening of Spanish [s] to number and person marking and on the position of Spanish demonstrative adjectives. Currently she is investigating the factors influencing subject pronoun and noun expression and position in French and Spanish.

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