David Korfhagen

David Korfhagen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
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New Cabell Hall 434
Office Hours:
Virtual Meetings Monday & Wednesday 2:00pm-3:00pm & by appt.

Summary

Education

Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                   
M.A., Spanish Literature and Linguistics, Bowling Green State University                                 
B.A., Spanish Literature and Linguistics, University of Cincinnati                                              

Teaching

University of Virginia (2018-present)
Spanish 4530: Meaning in (the Spanish) Language
Spanish 4200: History of the Language (2 sections)
Spanish 3000: Phonetics (2 sections)
Spanish 2020: Advanced Intermediate Spanish (8 sections)
Spanish 1060: Accelerated Elementary Spanish (2 sections)
 
University of Wisconsin-Rock County (2017)
Spanish 236: The Culture and Civilization of Latin America
Spanish 201: Intermediate Spanish
Spanish 101: Elementary Spanish
 
University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2014, 2016-2017)
Spanish 320: Spanish Phonetics
Spanish 311: Advanced Language Practice
Spanish 226: Intermediate Language Practice - Writing and Grammar
Spanish 204: Fourth Semester Spanish
Spanish 203: Third Semester Spanish
Spanish 102: Elementary Spanish
Spanish 101: Elementary Spanish
 
Rockford University (2014-2015)
Spanish 376: Decoding Spanish (Introduction to Spanish linguistics)
Spanish 309: History of Spanish Language/Phonetics
Spanish 210: Beginning Translation
Spanish 208: Intermediate Spanish Composition
Spanish 111: Spanish for Nursing
Spanish 102: Elementary Spanish II
Spanish 101: Elementary Spanish I

Research interests

  • Socio-cognitive approaches to the study of language variation and change
  • Hispanic linguistics
  • Romance linguistics
  • Politics of language

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

Korfhagen, David, Rajiv Rao, & Sandro Sessarego. (Forthcoming, 2020). Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties: Phonological Analysis and Implications. In R. Rao (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Korfhagen, David. (2016). Social factors in semantic change: A corpus-based case study of the verb afeitar ‘to adorn, to apply cosmetics, to shave’. In Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (eds), Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 345-62.

Work in Progress

Korfhagen, David. (in prep.). Social and cognitive factors in the loss of the Spanish verb asmar ‘think, estimate’.
Korfhagen, David. (in prep.). Social influence in metaphorical extension: siniestro ‘left > sinister/evil’.
Korfhagen, David. (in prep.). A socio-cognitive account of the ‘intransitivization’ of ahorrar ‘save [money]’ and similar Spanish verbs.
Carpenter, Marisa, David Korfhagen & Nate Maddux. (in prep.) On the historical development of auxiliary saber ‘tend to’ in Andean Spanish.

Book review

Korfhagen, David. (2017). Solicited review of Stolova, Natalya I. (2015). Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In Language & Cognition (Cambridge University Press). https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2017.25

Transcriptions

“Silves de la selva”. (Forthcoming). Corpus of Hispanic Chivalric Romances. Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. Online at textred.spanport.wisc.edu/chivalric.

Balbontín, Georgina, Stacy Bryant, David Korfhagen, & Rocío Moirón. (2017). Francisco Vázques?, Primaleón (Salamanca: [Juan de Porras], 1512). Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, F.151.b88. Corpus of Hispanic Chivalric Romances. Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. Online at textred.spanport.wisc.edu/chivalric

Translation Experience

 

Recent Conference Presentations

“On the Historical Development of Auxiliary saber ‘Tend to’ in Andean Spanish” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 72, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (11 April 2019)

“The status and origins of auxiliary saber in periphrastic constructions of habitual aspect in Andean Spanish” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas-Austin (25-27 October 2018)

“On the Historical Development of Spanish siniestro ‘left > sinister/evil’ and izquierdo ‘left’ Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 71, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (20 April 2018)

“A socio-cognitive account of the ‘intransitivization’ of ahorrar ‘save [money]’ and similar Spanish verbs” 6th Luso-Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (29-30 September 2017)

“Social influence in metaphorical extension: siniestro ‘left > sinister/evil’” 5th Luso-Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin (29 October 2016)

“On the Loss of the Spanish Verb Asmar ‘To Think, To Estimate’” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 68, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (23 April 2015)

Fellowships and Awards

University Housing’s Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)

University Housing’s Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015)

Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012)

University Housing’s Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)

Professional Service and Community Outreach