Milton M.
Azevedo
University of California,
Berkeley
Milton M. Azevedo
was born in Ouro Fino, Minas Gerais, Brazil, studied at the
Catholic University of Santos where he received
a teaching certificate in English as a Second Language in 1965.
He taught English at secondary schools in São Paulo from
1965 until 1968, when he started graduate school at Cornell university,
where he received an MA in 1971 and a PhD in 1973, both in Linguistics.
He has taught at the universities of Illinois, Colorado, Minnesota,
and, since 1976, at University of California at Berkeley, where
he is currently Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing
in Hispanic linguistics. At Berkeley he directed language courses
from 1976 to 1996, helped create and directed the Catalan studies
program from 1986 to 1996. Between 1996 and 1998 he directed
the U of California and U of Illinois education abroad center
in Barcelona, Spain.
His professional activities include two terms on the executive
committee of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese and he is currently
in his second term as associate editor of the journal Hispania. He has also lectured
at universities in the United States, Australia, England, the Netherlands, Portugal,
and Spain. his publications include studies of synchronic and comparative linguistics
(O subjuntivo em português: um estudo transformacional, Editora Vozes (Brazil),
1976; Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese, Georgetown University Press,
1980; A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, Georgetown University
press, 1981), methodology (Teaching Spanish: a practical guide, co-authored with
Wilga M. Rivers (senior author) and William H. Heflin, jr. 2nd edition, national
textbook company, 1988), literary linguistics (La parla i el text, Pagès
Editors, 1996; Vozes em branco e preto: a representação literária
da fala não-padrão, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo,
2003), manuals (Introducción a la lingüística española,
Prentice Hall, 2nd ed, 2005), Portuguese: a linguistic introduction (Cambridge
U Press, 2005), and textbooks in Spanish as a second language (Lecturas periodísticas,
D. C. Heath, 5th ed., 1996), besides reviews and articles on applied linguistics,
translation studies, and literary linguistics in journals including Hispania,
Hispanic Linguistics, Revista de letras (Brazil), Revista de letras (Portugal),
Revista portuguesa de humanidades, The Hemingway Review, and Syntagma.
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