Fernando Tejero-Herrero

Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (PhD)is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works primarily in the fields of (socio)historical linguistics, dialectology, and lexicography and lexicology. His research combines corpus-based analyses of historical data with socio-historical approaches to language variation and change. His current interests lie in the development of Spanish as a standard language. In particular, his research focuses on standardization practices as reflected in the transmission of texts from manuscript to print, questions about the formation and transmission of specialized vocabulary, and the development of language ideologies that promote or reject linguistic variants as part of a (supra)norm.

He is the co-author, with Francisco Gago-Jover, of Diccionario militar de Raimundo Sanz. Edición y estudio (Institución Fernando el Católico, 2007); he is co-editor, with Sandro Sessarego, of Spanish language and Sociolinguistic Analysis (John Benjamins, 2016) and co-editor, with Gabriel Rei-Doval, of Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics: Bridging Frames and Traditions (Routledge, 2019).