Fernando’s areas of interest include Medieval Studies, Poetics, Spanish and Italian Literature, Grammaticalization, Vulgar or Uneducated Speech, Deictics and Expletives in Romance, Vulgar Latin, Comparative Romance Linguistics, Pedagogy of the Romance Languages, Historical Linguistics, Orthoepy, Ortography-Phonology Interface, Phonaesthetics, Stylistics, and Paleography.
