Luis González
Luis González, Ph.D.
Professor
gonzall@wfu.edu
336-758-5428
Greene 534
Syntactic Theory and Spanish Applied Linguistics
Luis González is a professor of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He is the co-author of one book and the author of five other books:
- Gramática para la composición. 2016. 3rd ed. Washington: Georgetown University Press. A Spanish advanced grammar and writing textbook, now in its third edition. Co-authored with M. Stanley Whitley.
- Cómo entender y cómo enseñar por y para. 2020. London: Routledge.
- Four Dichotomies in Spanish: Adjective Position, Adjectival Clauses, Ser/Estar, and Preterite/Imperfect. 2021. London: Routledge.
- The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker. 2021. London: Routledge.
- Understanding and Teaching Reflexive Sentences in Spanish. 2022. London: Routledge.
- Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish. 2023. London: Routledge.
- SPA 153: Intermediate Spanish
- SPA 309: Grammar and Composition
- SPA 371: Contrastive Spanish/English Grammar and Stylistics
- SPA 397: Spanish Independent Study
- SPA 398: Honors Directed Reading and Research