Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

Scott Schwenter

Scott Schwenter

Scott Schwenter

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

schwenter.1@osu.edu

274 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210

Google Map
Dr. Scott Schwenter is a Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. He is a variationist sociolinguist and pragmaticist, working on grammatical issues in both Spanish and Portuguese, including comparative aspects of the two languages. His work is corpus-based, and features multivariate statistical analysis of broad-scale patterns across different varieties of Spanish and Portuguese.
 
Dr. Schwenter is primarily interested in the contextual conditioning of linguistic variables, and why speakers choose to express things in a given way when they are faced with multiple options for conveying the same content. His most recent work has focused on the pronominal systems of both Spanish and Portuguese and also on negation in Romance languages more generally.