Cynthia Kauffeld's area of specialty is historical Spanish linguistics, particularly early Andalusian Spanish and American Spanish of the colonial period. Additional research interests include paleography and Spanish dialectology. Kauffeld has been teaching at Macalester since 2006. EDUCATION: Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Journal Articles
Some New Thoughts on Old Spanish Second-Person Plural Verb Endings, Romance Philology (2010)
Old Spanish -ir/-ecer Verb Variation: Tracing the Extension of -ec- Through the Lexicon, Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2007)
Books
Andalusian Spanish: A Linguistic Study of 14th- and 15th-century Texts from Sevilla and Córdoba (2011)
Contributions to Books
Textual Evidence of Seseo in Andalusian Texts (1324-1500), Two Generations. A Tribute to Lloyd A. Kasten (1905-1999) (2005)
Presentations
Editing the Residencia de Vázquez de Coronado (1544), 64th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (2011)
The Loss of -d- in the Old Spanish Second-Person-Plural Verb Endings -ades, -edes, -ides: A New Contribution, 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2010)