Riley VanMeter is a PhD Candidate in Romance Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research investigates computational, experimental, and corpus methods in researching grammatical change. Additional work spans alignment in machine translation and the evaluation of multilingual large language models. His dissertation examines integrative approaches to grammaticalization and grammatical change across Romance varieties, bringing together cognitive, computational, and sociolinguistic perspectives, with a focus on Spanish and Italian varieties. He holds an MA in Romance Languages and a BA in International Business and Spanish from The University of Alabama.
Linguistics, Computational linguistics/NLP, Linguistic methodologies, Grammatical change, Sociolinguistics
