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My teaching concerns Spanish historical linguistics and language history, Spanish syntax and grammatical description, Romance linguistics. My active research topics extend top other Romance languages and a systematic embedding of these topics into current theoretical thinking. After an extended period as department chair, I am still actively involved in departmental and University policy.My doctoral studies at the University of Zürich (Switzerland) dealt with the three areas of Italian, Spanish, and French philology in the tradition of historical and comparative Romance linguistics. The dissertation dealt with the phonology of the modern Venetian dialect (1971), an attempt at using some more contemporary descriptive devices in the standard philological setting.