Larry D. King
Professor of Spanish
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Puerta Principal, Reales Alcázares, Sevilla

Department of Romance Languages
CB# 3170, UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
larking@unc.edu

Where I will be in the coming months

Short biography

Recent publications

Courses I have taught recently

My major interests

Where I will be in the coming months

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Short Biography

My undergraduate work at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1969) included a major in Spanish language and literature and a minor in Portuguese. During my graduate studies at Indiana University (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1976) my interests became more focused on language, which led me to concentrate on Spanish and Portuguese linguistics and the application of linguistics to the teaching of foreign languages. I began as a medievalist and worked with the Portuguese historian A.H. de Oliveira Marques while holding a Fulbright Grant in Portugal (1972-73). In Lisbon I collected material for my dissertation on the language and works of the fifteenth century Portuguese chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara. After joining the linguistics faculty of Cornell University in 1974, I became interested in the synchronic description of languages, and began research on the the meaning of grammatical forms in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. In 1980 I joined the Chapel Hill faculty and directed the Spanish language program for a number of years. In 1985-86 I served for the first time as Resident Director of the UNC Year at Sevilla, Spain, and thus began what was to become my primary administrative responsibility within the department. In 1987 I became Program Director in Chapel Hill and have also been in residence with the program in Sevilla several semesters during the last seven years. On June 30, 2004 I will left the directorship after seventeen years of continuous service to the program.

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Recent Publications

1992. The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and Grammatical Form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2000 (and M. Suñer). Gramática española: Análisis y práctica. McGraw-Hill.

2004 (and M. Suñer). Gramática española: Análisis y práctica. 2nd edition. McGraw-Hill.

2004. (with M. Suñer).  Para a frente!  An Intermediate Course in Portuguese.  2nd edition.  Linguatexts.

(forthcoming, with H. De Fays). El mundo hispano a lo largo de los años.  A multimedia course on Spanish and Spanish American history and culture.

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Courses I have taught recently

• Spanish 52: Cultural History of the Hispanic World
• Spanish 77: Grammar of Contemporary Spanish

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My major interests

(1) Language variation in Spanish with a focus on the meaning of grammatical forms
(2) the application of lingusitics to the teaching of Spanish grammar
(3) the incorporation of technology into the teaching of courses on Spanish culture and society for use both in the U.S. and abroad

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