Daniel J. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. He completed a BA in Spanish at Bob Jones University, an MEd in Foreign Language Education at the University of Georgia, and the PhD in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Smith has taught Spanish at colleges and universities in Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina. He teaches grammar and linguistics courses at Clemson and is currently the Spanish 100 level coordinator.
His research interests include Spanish/English language contact in the Southeastern U.S.; language acquisition; indigenous languages of Latin America in contact with Spanish, Portuguese, and English; languages in contact with Spanish. He has published on grammatical and social aspects of Spanish/English bilingualism, including "Thresholds leading to shift: Spanish/English codeswitching and convergence in Georgia, USA" in the International Journal of Bilingualism ; "Intra-speaker variation of standard and nonstandard grammatical patterns: Spanish influenced by English in Georgia" in the Southwest Journal of Linguistics ; and "Social and Grammatical Patterns in Spanish/English Bilingualism in Georgia, USA" in the Southern Journal of Linguistics.