Terminal Degree
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1992. Romance Languages,
specialization in Spanish Linguistics
Publications
- Books
- Rivera-Mills, Susana V., and Daniel J. Villa, eds. 2010. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
- Villa Cresap, Daniel. 1997. El desarrollo de futuridad en el español.
México, D.F.: Grupo Eón.
- Edited journal collections
- Villa, Daniel J., and Susana V. Rivera-Mills, eds. 2009. Special Issue, “Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S. Southwest: History in the making”. Spanish in Context 6 (1)
- Villa, Daniel and Susana Rivera-Mills, eds. 2005. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24 (1,2).
- Villa, Daniel, supplement ed. 2001. Studies in language contact: Spanish in the U.S. and the Caribbean. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20 (2).
- Villa, Daniel, supplement ed. 2001. Studies in Language Contact: Indigenous Languages in the Americas. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20 (1).
- Villa, Daniel, collection ed. 2000. Studies in Language Contact: U.S. Spanish. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 19 (2).
- Villa, Daniel, ed. 1996. First Annual Conference on Spanish for Native Speakers Working Papers. Las Cruces: New Mexico State University.
- Villa, Daniel, guest ed. 1993. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 12 (1,2).
- Articles and book chapters
- Travis, Catherine E., and Daniel J. Villa. 2011. “Language policy and language contact in New Mexico: The case of Spanish”. Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: International Perspectives. Ed. Catrin Norrby and John Hajek, 126-140. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
- Sanz, Israel, and Daniel J. Villa. 2011. “The genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The emergence of a unique dialect in the Americas”. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4. 417-442.
- Villa, Daniel J. 2010. “¿¡Cómo Que Spanglish!? Creating a Service Learning Component for a Spanish Heritage Language Program”. Building Communities and Making Connections. Ed. Susana V. Rivera-Mills and Juan Antonio Trujillo, 120-135. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Rivera-Mills, Susana V., and Daniel J.Villa. 2010. “Introduction. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition.”. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition. Ed. Susana V. Rivera-Mills and Daniel J. Villa, 11-14. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
- Villa, Daniel J. 2010. “Y nos vamos patrás: Back to an analysis of a supposed ‘calque’”. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition. Ed. Susana V. Rivera-Mills and Daniel J. Villa, 239-251. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
- Villa, Daniel J., and Susana V. Rivera-Mills. 2009. “Introduction: Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S. Southwest: History in the making”. Spanish in Context 6. 1-5.
- Villa, Daniel J., and Susana V. Rivera-Mills. 2009. “An integrated multi-generational model for language maintenance and shift: The case of Spanish in the Southwest”. Spanish in Context 6. 26-42.
- Villa, Daniel J. 2009. “General versus Standard Spanish: Establishing empirical norms
for the study of U.S. Spanish”. Spanish in the United States and other contact environments:
Sociolinguistics, ideology and pedagogy. Ed. Manel Lacorte and Jennifer Leeman , 175-189. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
- Mora, Marie T., Daniel J. Villa and Alberto Dávila. 2006.
“Language shift and maintenance among the children of immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence in the Census for Spanish speakers and other language minorities”. Spanish in Context 3. 239-254.
- Mora, Marie T., Daniel J. Villa and Alberto Dávila. 2005. “Language maintenance among the children of immigrants: A comparison of Border States with other regions of the U.S.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24: 127-144.
- Villa, Daniel, and Jennifer Villa. 2005. “Language instrumentality in a border region: Implications for the loss of Spanish in the Southwest”. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24: 169-184.
- Villa, Daniel. 2005. “Back to Patrás: A Process of Grammaticization in a Contact Variety of Spanish”. ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Ed. James Cohen, Kara McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2310-2316.
- Villa, Daniel. 2005. “Aportaciones de la lingüística aplicada crítica
al estudio del español de los EEUU”. Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas Ed. Luis Ortiz López and Manel Lacorte. Madrid/Frankfurt:
Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 301-311.
- Villa, Daniel. 2004. “No nos dejaremos: Writing in Spanish as an Act of Resistance”. Latino/a Discourses on Language, Identity & Literacy Education. Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 85-95.
- Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Como pez en agua: The ‘border’ from a different point of view”. Río Bravo A Journal of Borderlands 2. 1-12.
- Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Heritage Language Speakers and Upper-Division Language Instruction:
Findings from a Spanish Linguistics Program”. AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Ed. Heidi Byrnes and Hiram Maxim. Boston: Heinle and Heinle. 88-98.
- Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Looking After the Spanish Legacy”.
Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication & Education, January. 13-17.
- Villa, Daniel. 2002. "Integrating
Technology into Minority Language Teaching and
Preservation Efforts: An Inside Job". Language Learning and Technology 6. 92-101.
- Villa, Daniel. 2002. "The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia".
Foreign Language Annals 35. 222-230.
- Villa, Daniel. 2001. "A Millennial Reflection sobre la nueva
reconquista". Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20. 1-13.
(Presidential Address)
- Villa, Daniel. 2000. "Languages Have Armies, and Economies, Too: The Impact of U.S. Spanish in the Spanish-speaking world". Southwest Journal of Linguistics 19. 143-154.
- Villa, Daniel. 1999. "El Ragman". Southwest Reader
for Intermediate Spanish, ed. Carole Byrd and Adriana Candia
García. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 77-80.
- Villa, Daniel. 1999. "Memorias de Fairbanks". Southwest Reader for Intermediate
Spanish, ed. Carole Byrd and Adriana Candia García. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 82-85.
- Villa, Daniel and Jennifer Villa. 1998. "Identity Labels and
Self-Reported Language Use: Implications for Spanish Language Programs". Foreign Language
Annals 31.4: 505-16.
- Villa, Daniel. 1998. "Bilingual Pedagogy and Border Environmental Issues." Business Review Yearbook, ed. Grace Ann Rosile. Slippery Rock, PA: International Academy of Business Disciplines. 223-28.
- Villa, Daniel. 1997. "Course Design and Content for a 'Grammar' Class in an SNS Program". La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoría. Ed. M. Cecilia Colombi and Francisco Alarcón. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath. 93-101.
- Villa, Daniel. 1996. "Choosing a 'Standard' Variety of Spanish for the Instruction of Native Spanish Speakers in the U.S." Foreign Language Annals 29.2:191-200.
- Rodríguez Pino, Cecilia, and Daniel Villa. 1994. "A Student-Centered Spanish-for-Native- Speakers Program: Theory, Curriculum Design and Outcome Assessment". AAUSC Issues
in Language Program Direction. Ed. Carol Klee. Boston: Heinle and Heinle. 355-373.
- Rodríguez, Alfred, and Daniel Villa. 1990. "Pedro de Urdemalas de Lope de Vega: El
Disfraz Varonil y el 'Trickster'". Romance Notes, XXXI.1: 53-57.
- Technical reports
- Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et al. 1997. "Discourse Processing in Machine Translation of Dialog". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-97-309.
New Mexico State University: Computing Research Laboratory.
- Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et. al. 1996. "Use of Discourse Models in Machine Translation of Dialog". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-96-294. Las Cruces: Computing Research Laboratory.
- Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et al. 1994. "Adapting Machine Translation Systems to Processing Dialog: A Feasibility Study". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive
Science MCCS-94-275. Las Cruces: Computing Research Laboratory.
Recent Conference Papers and Presentations
- Villa, Daniel. 2010. "Corpus linguistics and SHL instruction: Are we in a 'post-standard' era?" Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIX. Las Cruces, NM, October 7-9.
- "Yes, Mexican/Mexican American/Chicano: Los intersticios entre lengua e identidad al norte del Río Bravo".
Invited presentation given at the X Coloquio de Estudios de la Cultura, Guadalajara, Mexico, November 25-27, 2009.
- “New Mexican Spanish: 150 years of linguistic resistance”.
Colloquium presented at the University of New Mexico, October 7, 2009.
- “New Mexican Spanish: 150 years of contact with English and counting”.
Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXVIII. Provo, UT, September 25-26, 2009.
- “¡¿Cuál ‘Spanglish’?! The impact of English on New Mexican and Southern Colorado Spanish”. XXII Conference on Spanish in the U.S. Miami, FL, February 19-21, 2009.
- “¿¡Cómo que Spanglish¡? Recent research on New Mexican Spanish”. Invited presentation, University of Texas - Pan American. Edinburg, TX, October 29, 2008.
- “Confronting persistent myths: Non-standard Southwest Spanish”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXVII. Corvallis, OR, October 16-19, 2008.
- “Establishing U.S. Spanish as a Variety of General Spanish: Implications for the Teaching of Spanish in the U.S.” Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 21-24, 2007.
- “Spanglish according to Ilan Stavans: Interpreting popular views of language”. Voces, Palabras e Imágenes de Fronteras: Espacios Geográficos y Metafóricos de Literatura, Lingüística y Cinematografía. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 5-7, 2007.
- “U.S. Spanish as a variety of General Spanish: Establishing empirical norms”. XXI Conference on Spanish in the U.S. Arlington, VA, March 15-18, 2007.
- Co-presented with Susana V. Rivera-Mills. “Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S.: New analytical perspectives”. XXI Conference on Spanish in the U.S. Arlington, VA, March 15-18, 2007.
- “In the eye of the storm: Southwest Spanish and the creation of ethnic identity”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXV. Laredo, TX, September 29-October 1, 2006.
- “Looking to Einstein for inspiration: A panchronic approach to language change”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIV. Lubbock, TX, October 7-9, 2005.
- Co-presented with Devin Jenkins. “The Hispanic population in the Southwest: An update on demographic changes”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIV. Lubbock, TX, October 7-9, 2005.
- “Spanglish: No, it's not a new language. A linguistic perspective on language contact”.
Invited lecture, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, April 12, 2005.
- “Spanish in the United States: a brief history of the language and its current status”. Invited lecture, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, April 11, 2005.
- “Pos aquí truenan mis chicharrones: Changes in the status of Spanish in one region of the Southwest”. XX Congreso, El Español en los Estados Unidos, Chicago, IL, March 24-26, 2005.
- “Stigmatized by whom? The relationship between language researchers and their findings”. Linguistic
Association of the Southwest XXXIII. New Orleans, LA, September 10-12, 2004.
- Co-presented with Marie Mora and Alberto Dávila. “Language Shift and Maintenance among the Children of Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence in the Census for Spanish Speakers and Other Language Minorities”. Linguistic Association of the
Southwest XXXII. Edinburg, TX, October 17-19, 2003.
- “Literacy vs. Literacy Skills: Goals for Writing Instruction for Spanish Heritage Language Speakers”. Linguistic
Association of the Southwest XXXII. Edinburg, TX, October 17-19, 2003.
Funded Research
- 2000-2003. NMSU internal funding for dissemination of research, $6,000.
- 1997-1999. "Widening Our World". Co-Principal Investigator
with Dr. Jon Hunner and Mr. David Blobner, Gadsden High School. U S West
Foundation, $60,000.
- 1996-1997. Principal Investigator. Technology for Language Skills
Development; International Research for Spanish for Professionals. NMSU internal
funding, $18,000.
- 1996-1997. Co-PI with Dr. Jon Hunner. "Preserving Community".
State of New Mexico, Children, Youth and Families Dept., $10,000.
- 1996-1997. Co-PI with the Workgroup on Critical Pedagogy. "Voices
in Harmony: Critical Approaches to Pedagogy." The Center for Teaching
Excellence, Eastern New Mexico University, $2,500.
- 1995-1996. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "An
Integrated Discourse Processing Component for the Machine Translation of
Dialog". National Security Agency (NSA), $156,000.
- 1995-1996. PI. "Spanish for the Spanish-Speaking
Professional". State of New Mexico, $39,600.
- 1995. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "An
Integrated Discourse Processing Component for the Machine Translation of
Dialog". National Security Agency (NSA), $49,900.
- 1994-1995. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "Use
of Discourse Models in Machine Translation of Dialog". NSA,
$151,000.
- 1994-1995. PI. "Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish: New
Directions for the 21st Century". Conference funded by the College
of Arts and Sciences, $2,500.
- 1993-1994. Co-PI with Dr. David Farwell and Dr. Janyce Wiebe. "A
Feasibility Study of the Machine Translation of Spoken Dialog".
NSA, $100,000.
- 1991-1992. PI. "Spanish-English Bilingualism in New Mexico".
UAF Faculty Grant, $5,000.
- 1989-1990. PI. "Dialectal Variation in New Mexican Spanish".
University of New Mexico Challenge Assistantship, $6,300.
Research Interests
- Curriculum development for community-based language instruction for
professionals.
- Language loss and maintenance of Spanish in the U.S.
- The implementation of technology in student-centered language classes.
- Theory, curriculum development and outcome measurement for Spanish
for Native Speakers' programs.
- Issues in language contact in the Americas.
- Inter-institutional collaboration on the integration of secondary and post-secondary pedagogy.
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