Faculty Portrait

Contact Information

Name: Edward Baranowski

Title: Professor Emeritus

Office Location: 2039 Mariposa Hall

Email: ebaranowski@csus.edu

Office Phone: 916.278.6336

Mailing Address: 6000 J Street, Sacramento CA 95819

Office Hours: (Fall 2025) Wednesdays, 12-1PM

Courses That I Teach

 

SPAN 102: Spanish Phonetics

SPAN 103: Advanced Spanish Grammar

SPAN 201A: General Spanish Linguistics

SPAN 201B: History of the Spanish Language

SPAN 201C: Contrastive Grammatical Structures of Spanish and English

Personal and Publications

About Me

I am Professor Emeritus of Spanish at Sacramento State, where I’ve been part of the faculty since 2002. I earned my Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, and have taught all levels of Spanish language and linguistics—including undergraduate courses in grammar and phonetics, and graduate seminars in dialectology, contrastive grammar, and historical linguistics.

My main area of research is Spanish Historical Linguistics. Over the years, I’ve published on the evolution of Spanish verbal morphology and contributed to broader studies in Romance linguistics. I co-authored the third edition of Bilingual Grammar of English-Spanish Syntax with Dr. Maria Mayberry, updating the late Prof. Sam Hill’s original text.


Study Abroad and International Programs

Promoting study abroad has always been central to my work. I’ve directed or co-directed multiple programs for the M.A. in Spanish Travel Study, including academic residencies in Peru, Mexico, Spain, and Guatemala. In 2011–2012, I served as Resident Director for the CSU International Programs in Spain (Madrid and Granada).


Selected Publications and Projects

  • “The Spanish Future Perfect habré cantado: From Subjunctive to Indicative?” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84.1 (2007): 1–12.

  • “Defining the Spanish Future Subjunctive.” Hispania 91.2 (2008): 495–509.

  • Contributor to UC Berkeley’s Cíbola Project: Documents from the 1602–1603 Sebastián Vizcaíno Expedition