Marco Túlio Bittencourt

Research/Teaching Interests

• Heritage Linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
• Applied Linguistics
• Morphology
• Spanish as a heritage language
• Portuguese as a heritage language
• Spanish and Portuguese for specific purposes
• Spanish as an additional language
• Portuguese as an additional language

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.A., Linguistics, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil) 

Licentiate degree (Licenciatura em Letras Inglês), Universidade Católica de Brasília (Brazil)

B.S., Business Administration, University of Southern California

Awards

•  2016 Yumi Nakamura prize for excellence in graduate student research
• An analysis of the progressive with stative verbs in Portuguese, University of Texas at Arlington

Courses Taught at Baylor

Spanish

• Elementary Spanish (SPA 1301)
• Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers (SPA 2304)

Publications

Articles

Heritage Portuguese learners' performance with derivational morphology. revistaconfluencia.org.br (2025). 

An analysis of the progressive with stative verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Caderno de Squibs: Temas em estudos formais da linguagem - Universidade de Brasília (2016).