My research centers on language contact, change, borrowing, and language use in borderland communities. My main area of focus is evidence and practices of language contact and the contexts of the language practices between Romance and Semitic languages among medieval Iberian communities. The languages I work with are Romance, Spanish, Andalusí Arabic, Mozarabic, and Aljamiado.
So far, my work has centered on the documentary evidence related to the Mozarabic (Arabized-Christians) communities, Mudéjars, and Moriscos, living between the Andalusí and Christian frontier from the ninth to the early fourteenth century in Medieval Iberia.
I think it is important to be able to generalize findings or methods to other groups that have similar circumstances as those I study in the Middle Ages. Thus, I maintain a parallel line of research where I study contact between Spanish and English, and Spanish and Indigenous Languages along borderland areas of the United States and Mexico.