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Yolanda Fernández-Pena has gained a position as Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at UVigo

We are pleased to announce that (ELC- and LVTC-member) Yolanda Fernández-Pena has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. For a nice picture of this special event, please click here: https://lvtc.uvigo.es/blog/yolanda-fernandez-pena-becomes-associate-professor Congratulations, Yolanda!

 

Daniela Pettersson-Traba obtains the ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ 2023 Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics

We are delighted to announce that, at the General Assembly of AEDEAN held on 10 November, Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of the VLCG team, received the prestigious ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ 2023 Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics for her research monograph The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022; [...]

 

Daniela Pettersson-Traba receives AELINCO’s (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics) 2023 Book Award ‘Aquilino Sánchez’ for Early Career Researchers

We are delighted to announce that Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of VLCG, has received  AELINCO’s (Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics) 2023 Award ‘Aquilino Sánchez’ for Early Career Researchers for her monograph The development of the concept of SMELL in American English: A usage-based view of near-synonymy (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022; 267 pp.). Daniela’s study examines five adjectival near-synonyms in [...]

 

Cristina Lastres-López receives AESLA’s (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics) 2023 Book Award for Early Career Researchers

We are delighted to announce that Cristina Lastres-López, a member of VLCG, has received AESLA’s 2023 Award for Early Career Researchers for her monograph From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021; 254 pp.). Cristina’s study constitutes a groundbreaking approach to if/si-constructions, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. [...]

 

USC Extraordinary PhD Awards 2020/2021 go to three members of ELC

We are very pleased to announce that Cristina Lastres-López, Daniela Pettersson-Traba and Iria de Dios-Flores have obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award for their doctoral dissertations, defended at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2020/2021. Cristina, Daniela and Iria competed with 25 other candidates in the fields of Linguistics, Philology and Philosophy. For further information, [...]

 

Two ELC members have recently obtained tenure-track positions as AD

Noelia Castro-Chao and Raquel P. Romasanta, who were holders of competitive postdoctoral contracts funded, respectively, by the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish Ministry of Universities, have recently obtained tenure-track positions as Lecturers (AD) at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of the Balearic Islands. Noelia is a member of the VLCG team, [...]

 

David Tizón-Couto has gained a position as Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at UVigo

We are pleased to announce that David Tizón-Couto has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. For a very nice picture of this special event please click here. Congratulations, David!

 

FPU grants awarded to Jorge Fernández-Avilés and David Hernández-Coalla

The Spanish Ministry of Universities has recently announced that Jorge Fernández-Avilés and David Hernández-Coalla have been awarded four-year FPU grants (reference nos. FPU21/05035 and FPU21/06186) to prepare their PhDs at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo. Both Jorge and David have very distinguished CVs already! Their PhD supervisors will be, respectively, María José [...]

 

Isabel Balteiro Fernández and Cristina Suárez-Gómez have been promoted to Full Professors of English Language and Linguistics

We are very pleased to announce that our friends and colleagues Isabel Balteiro-Fernández and Cristina Suárez-Gómez have recently been promoted to positions as Full Professors of English Language and Linguistics at the Universities of Alicante and the Balearic Islands respectively. Congratulations, Isabel and Cristina!

 

Yolanda Fernández-Pena’s research monograph on verb number agreement has been distinguished with ESSE Book Award 2022

At the ESSE Book Awards Ceremony, held at the University of Mainz on 29 August 2022, Yolanda Fernández-Pena, a member of the LVTC group, received the prestigious ESSE Book Award (€1,500), in the category English Language and Linguistics, for her monograph Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects (Routledge, [...]