Professor, Department of Modern Languages
Dr. Michael Galant graduated from UCLA in 1998 with a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics and Literature. Born and raised in Southern California, Professor Galant studied French in high school and learned Spanish at UCLA while working on his B.S. in Biochemistry. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics and Literature at UCLA, majoring in Spanish linguistics and minoring in French and Portuguese linguistics. His dissertation, “Comparative Constructions in Spanish and San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec,” studies both Spanish and San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, and he coauthored a trilingual San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec/Spanish/English dictionary. Before coming to CSUDH, he taught at Texas A & M University-Kingsville, worked as a linguistic consultant at InQuizit Technologies, and lectured at UCLA. Here at CSUDH, where he has been faculty since 2004, he teaches Spanish linguistics and beginning French. He is the director of the Language Learning Center and the advisor for Sigma Delta Pi. His main areas of interest are morphosyntax, historical linguistics, language contact and lexicography, and he focusses his research on indigenous languages of the Americas, primarily Zapotec languages and Quichua. He is currently participating in two trilingual dictionary projects (San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec/Spanish/English and Imbabura Quichua/Spanish/English), and he is part of a research group that analyzes Zapotec and Mixtec colonial documents.
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