Contact Information: Office: Wilson 117 Phone: 4-4657 E-mail: jr6b@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: On leave

JOEL RINI is Professor of Spanish linguistics and philology in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and French from Kent State University (1981) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan (1984, 1987). Specializing in the history of the Spanish language, Professor Rini has published over 25 books and articles on various aspects of Spanish historical grammar, and more than 20 book reviews on Hispanic linguistics in general. He has presented scholarly papers in the US, England, and Spain, and in 1996 was invited as the "Distinguished Foreign Visitor" to address the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. He continues his scholarly pursuits in the areas of Spanish diachronic morphology and syntax.

Selected publications:

Motives for Linguistic Change in the Formation of the Spanish Object Pronouns. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 1992.

Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 179, 1999.

"A New Perspective on the Origin of le for les." Journal of Hispanic Philology 12 (1988): 207-19.

"Dating the Grammaticalization of the Spanish Clitic Pronoun." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 106 (1990): 354-70.

"On the Chronology of Spanish conmigo, contigo, consigo, and the Interaction of Phonological, Syntactic, and Morphological Processes." Hispanic Review 58 (1990): 503-12.

"Metathesis of Yod and the Palatalization of Latin Medial /k'l/, /g'l/, /t'l/; /ks/, /ssj/, /sj/; /kt/, /ult/ in Hispano- and Luso-Romance." Linguistic Studies in Medieval Spanish. Eds. Harris-Northall, Ray and Thomas D. Cravens. Hispanic Seminary for Medieval Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991): 109-33.

"On the Evolution of Spanish cigüeña and the Blending of Multiple Variants." Hispanic Review 61 (1993): 519-29.

"The Evolution of the Nature and Position of the Spanish Clitic Pronoun." La corónica 24 (1995): 173-95.

"The Vocalic Formation of the Spanish Verbal Suffixes -áis/-ás, -éis/-és, -ois/-os, and -ís: A Case of Phonological or Morphological Change?" Iberoromania 44 (1996): 1-16.

"The Origin of Spanish ser: A Phonosyntactic Analysis." Romance Philology 50 (1997): 295-307.

"The Formation of Old Spanish buey(s), bueyes, grey(s), greyes, ley(s), leyes, rey(s), reyes: A Morphophonological Analysis." Hispanic Review 66 (1998): 1-19.

"The Rise and Fall of Old Spanish Y' all: vos todos vs. vos otros." Essays in Hispanic Linguistics Dedicated to Paul M. Lloyd. Eds. Blake, Robert J., Diana L. Ranson, and Roger Wright. Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta (1999): 209-21.

"The Extraordinary Survival of Spanish veía: Another Facet of Analogy Revealed." Hispanic Review 69 (2001): 501-25.

"The Origin of Spanish entre tú y yo, 'between you and me': A Typological Parallel to English 'between you and I'?" Diachronica 20 (2003): 139-65.