Opening Remarks
2009
Dr. David Pharies
Dr. Pharies is a Professor of Spanish and Linguistics and the Department Chair in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Florida. He specializes in Spanish and Romance Historical Linguistics, having studied with Yakov Malkiel at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of eight books and a numerous amount of articles in this field, his most notable publications being the Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles, published by Editorial Gredos of Madrid in 2002 and Breve historia de la lengua española, recently published by Univeristy of Chicago Press. In addition, Dr. Pharies completed a project outside this specialty as editor-in-chief of the fifth edition of the University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary. He has been a Humboldt fellow, a Fulbright fellow (both in Germany), and an NEH fellow (three times).