Associate Professor Graduate Coordinator Contact Info chowe@uga.edu Office: 218 Gilbert Hall 7065421075 Dr. Howe works on issues of language variation and change, primarily focusing on structural (morphosyntactic) phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, he investigates the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. Through his fieldwork in Peru, he is also involved in researching contact-induced language change among Spanish-Quechua bilinguals in the Andean region of South America. Dr. Howe is currently the Coordinator for the Indigenous Languages Initiative in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Education: Georgia Southern University, BA (1999) The Ohio State University, MA (2001) The Ohio State University, PhD (2006) Research Research Interests: Areas of Interest: Corpus Methods Sociolinguistics and Language Variation Specific Research Areas: Some Current Projects: Grammaticalization and language change in Romance Languages Language variation and change in social media Incipient Language Shift in a Southern Latino Community Indigenous Languages in Latin America: Contact, Shift, and Maintenance Personal Website: https://chadhoweuga.github.io/
