Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-3524

IDANELY MORA PERALTA holds an undergraduate degree in Spanish language and literature and master’s and doctoral degrees with honors in linguistics from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM. She was a postdoctoral fellow in 2016 at El Colegio de México.  She is the managing editor of the Electronic Corpus of Colonial Mexican Spanish (CORECOM) of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM and a member of the Corpus Hispánico y Americano international network in the Textos Antiguos network (CHARTA). She is a professor in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras and in the MADEMS graduate program at UNAM. Her undergraduate thesis, “Mayan Toponyms and Anthroponyms in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Documents,” received an honorable mention for the Wigberto Jiménez Moreno Prize, awarded by the Linguistics Area of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. She is a researcher at the Centro de Lingüística Hispánica “J. M. Lope Blanch” of the IIFL, UNAM. Her areas of research include historical grammar, the Spanish of New Spain, discursive traditions, and language contact between Spanish and Maya and between Spanish and Galician.