Loss and Replacement of Arabic Words in Spanish

Ruxandra Drăgan, University of Bucharest

Ruxandra Drăgan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches inflectional and derivational morphology, lexical semantics and sociolinguistics. She is also a Fulbright scholar with a fellowship at the University of Connecticut, where she conducted research on Hate Speech against African Americans in the American Media. She received her Ph.D. in Philology, summa cum laude, from the University of Bucharest in 2011. Her doctoral thesis - Aspects of Lexical Structure: Verbs in Locative Constructions in English and Romanian - was published by Bucharest University Press in 2012.

Her theoretical research, included in two books and numerous articles, focuses on the lexicon, in particular, the linguistic representation of change of location and change of state structures at word level (denominal/deadjectival verbs) and sentence-level (resultatives and goal of motion constructions).