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Miguel Roman

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Miguel Roman

Lecturer in Linguistics and Coordinator, Less Commonly Taught Languages

Department/Office Information

Humanities
301D Lawrence Hall

Contact

(315) 228-6963

Miguel Román is a linguist whose work centers on multilingualism and languages in contact. He uses a variety of usage-based frameworks and research methods to model language use and variation within areas of semantics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

Education

BA, University of New Mexico
MA, University of New Mexico
PhD Candidate, Indiana University Bloomington

Interests

Japanese-Latin American Migrations (Nikkei and Dekasegi); Multilingualism; Language Contact; Language Change; Language Variation; Verb Class Typologies; Grammatical and Lexical Aspect; Information Structure

Publications

Journal Publications
Román, M.G. (Forthcoming 2026). Variable Forms of Past Expression in Second Language Spanish: the Role of L1 Influence. Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2024. Elsevier.

Román, M.G. (2026). ‘Espero su favorable respuesta.’ Expectations and complaints in L1 Japanese, L1 Portuguese L2 learners of Spanish. IULC Working Papers 25(1).

Román, M. G. (2019). Manutenção da Cultura Nikkei por Meio de Haicai. Revista Hon no Mushi  - Estudos Multidisciplinares Japoneses. Universidade Federal do Amazonas.

Chapters in Edited Volumes
Díaz-Campos, M. A., Román, M.G. (Under review). Venezuela: Sociolinguistic Overview. In Caravedo, R., Escobar, A. M., Martín Butragueño, P., & Moreno Fernández, F. (eds.) Handbook of Ibero-American Sociolinguistics. De Gruyter.

Díaz-Campos, M. A., Román, M.G. (Under review). Contribuciones de los estudios de variación regional a la teoría lingüística.

Román, M.G. (2025). La variación fonética/fonológica del español en contacto con el criollo haitiano. In Díaz-Campos, M.A. & Hernández-Campoy, J.M. (eds.) Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES), pp.499-507. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Díaz-Campos, M. A., Román, M.G. (2025). La variación fonética/fonológica en el español de Venezuela. In Díaz-Campos, M.A. & Hernández-Campoy, J.M. (eds.) Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES), pp.203-212. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Conference Proceedings
Román, M. G. (2022). Linguistic Ideology via Public Signage the Presence of Spanish and Portuguese in Japan. The Japanese Society for Language Sciences: JSLS 2022 Conference Handbook, 41-44.

 

Works-in-Progress

Migration and the Indexical Field: Crosslinguistic Variation of Dekasegi in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese Online Discourse