Diana Ranson

Diana L. Ranson (Ph.D. Romance Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1986) is Professor of French and Spanish at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on change and variation in the Romance languages. Her publications include Change and Compensation: Parallel Weakening of /s/ in Italian, French and Spanish (Peter Lang, 1989) and articles on Spanish historical linguistics, syntactic variation in Modern Spanish, and phonological variation in Modern French.  Her textbook, The History of Spanish: A Student's Introduction, co-authored with Margaret Quesada, was published in October 2018 by Cambridge University Press.