Contact Information: Office: Wilson 108 Phone: 924-7478 E-mail: lft5p at virginia.edu

FERNANDO TEJEDO-HERRERO is Assistant Professor of Spanish. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Philology from the Universidad de Valladolid (1994), an M.A. in Spanish (1997), an M.A. in Linguistics (2000), and a Ph.D. in Hispano-Romance Philology/Linguistics (2005) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He focuses on language change in Spanish, and in the Romance languages in general. He is particularly interested in grammaticalization approaches to morphosyntactic changes from Latin to Romance. He also has a strong interest in historical lexicography. His dissertation includes a dictionary of the Siete Partidas, and he is currently working on its electronic version. Further interests include socio-historical approaches to language, specifically processes of standardization and koineization.
He has been awarded an Excellence in Diversity Fellowship by the Teaching Resource Center (2004) at UVA. In 2003 he won the Campus-wide Capstone Ph. D. Teaching Award and in 1999 he won the Excellence in Teaching Award granted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Publications

Diccionario militar de Raimundo Sanz. Estudio y edición. Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2007.

“Condicionamientos sociolingüísticos en la productividad afijal de finales del siglo XV,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Forthcoming.

“Prácticas estandarizadoras en el léxico de las Siete Partidas (1491),” Romance Philology Forthcoming.

“The Metalinguistics of the term latín in Hispano-romance (13th-16th centuries),” in Latin vulgaire - latin tardif VIII, edited by Roger Wright. Hildesheim & Zürich & New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007: 578-587.

“El Diccionario militar de Raimundo Sanz en el contexto de la lexicografía especializada del siglo XVIII,” Dieciocho 29/1 (2006): 85-106.

“Contribución al estudio de los latinismos en las Siete Partidas”. Two Generations: A Tribute to Lloyd A. Kasten (1905-1999). Ed. Francisco Gago-Jover. New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (2002): 229-51.

Introduction to Electronic Text and Concordances of Alfonso Fernández de Palencia's 1492 Spanish Translation of Flavius Josephus' Guerra Judaica. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. [Also proofreader for complete publication] (1999).

“Carta de Colón” (Barcelona [1493]). Electronic Texts and Concordances of the Madison Corpus of Early Spanish Manuscripts and Printings Prepared by John O'Neill. Madison and New York (1999).