Christopher J Pountain

Christopher J. Pountain is Emeritus Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and a Life Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge. He has an extensive publication record of articles and chapters on a wide range of Romance linguistic themes and is the author of two major books on Spanish, A History of the Spanish Language through Texts (Routledge) and Exploring the Spanish Language (Routledge). He currently leads the 'Loaded Meanings' research strand on the 'Language Acts and Worldmaking' project based at King's College London. He has worked on the phenomenon of Latin influence on the Romance languages for many years and is author of the reference essay 'Latin and the Structure of Written Romance' included in Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (Cambridge University Press).