Dylan Jarrett

Assistant Professor
Spanish Linguistics
252-328-6529 (phone)
jarrettd22@ecu.edu
Bate 3315 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Education

  • PhD Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • MA Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • BA Spanish, Furman University

Areas of Interest

  • Historical syntactic and semantic change in Romance
  • Language variation and change in Spanish
  • Experimental pragmatics and typologies of meaning
  • (Im)politeness
  • Second language motivation in Spanish
  • Task-based language teaching

    Courses Taught

    • SPAN 6003: Applied Research Methods
    • SPAN 4330: Spanish in the United States
    • SPAN 3310: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
    • SPAN 1001-2003: Spanish Levels I-III

    Publications

    • Jarrett, D., & Gurzynski-Weiss, L. (2023). Task-specific motivation and development of the Spanish L2 self during domestic immersion. TASK: Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching & Learning, 3(1).
    • Jarrett, D and Amaral, P. (2023) “Usage-based approaches to historical semantic change” in Díaz-Campos, M. and Balasch, S. (Eds.) The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics. John Wiley and Sons Incorporated.
    • Amaral, P. and Jarrett, D. (2022). “Causality and the PA/SN distinction”. Linguistics. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0112
    • Amaral, P., Tian, Z., Jarrett, D. and Escalona Torres, J. M. (2022). “Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversatives”. Journal of Historical Linguistics. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21028.ama
    • Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Giacomino, L., and Jarrett, D. (2021). “Examining high school learners’ experience of task motivation and difficulty in a two-week Spanish immersion camp”. In Ahmadian, M., & Long, M. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 566-584). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Jarrett, D. (2020). “Developing epistemic meaning: a diachronic study of the Spanish adverb ‘a lo mejor’”. In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (Eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (pp. 215-231). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.