Marco T. Bittencourt

Marco is currently a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), and he is interested in Heritage Language as well as Second Language Acquisition of morphosyntactic properties. He is currently working on derivational morphology in heritage speakers of Portuguese. He also holds a Master's in Linguistics from the University of Brasilia in Brazil where he investigated the semantics of stative verbs with the periphrastic progressive in Brazilian Portuguese. He is currently a teaching associate of Spanish and Portuguese at UMass and has been an Adjunct instructor of Portuguese and Instructor of Spanish at Texas A&M International University; a Language Specialist of TESOL, at Texas A&M International University, and an English instructor at University of Houston-Downtown, and Lone Star College in Houston.