Author Archive: teresa

M. Carmen Parafita Couto (BA University of Santiago de Compostela, PhD University of Kansas), formerly a Lecturer in Linguistics (2014-2021) at the University of Leiden, has just joined the LVTC research group as a María Zambrano senior researcher, within the programme ‘Ayudas a la Recualificación del Sistema Universitario Español’ (Ministerio de Universidades, Gobierno de España). We [...]

On  Friday, 17 December 2021,  at 11:00 am, Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias will publicly defend her PhD dissertation on the Representation and processing of grammatical gender: Analysing the gender congruency effect. Supervisors: Isabel Fraga and Montserrat Comesaña. Examiners: Carlos Acuña-Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela), Daniela Paolieri (University of Granada) and Niels Schiller (Leiden University). [Opting to [...]

It was recently announced that Cristina Suárez-Gómez has brilliantly passed the accreditation exam qualifying her for promotion to a position as Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics. This is indeed a great achievement! We are delighted to be able to congratulate Cristina, her PhD advisor Belén Méndez-Naya, the VLCG and ViEW teams, and ELC!

The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) announced last week that the following research projects led by members of ELC have been awarded competitive funding for the period 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2024: Grant PID2020-114604GB-100. Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i y de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de [...]

We are very pleased to be able to announce that Elena Seoane, who passed the national accreditation examination in 2013, has been promoted to a position as Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. The members of the jury were Ignacio Palacios Martínez (University of Santiago de Compostela), Javier Pérez Guerra (University of [...]

ELC members continue very active. This post reports on several new monographs that have just appeared in national and international publishing houses: Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire. (Linguistic Insights 274). Bern: Peter Lang. 277 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-4189-9. [...]

We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held this term: Tuesday, 28 September, 5:00-6:30 pm: Dr Raquel P. Romasanta (University of Vigo): ”Contact-induced variation and change in World Englishes”. [32nd ELC Research Seminar] Tuesday, 9 November, 5:00-6:30 pm: Prof Dr Claudia Claridge (University of [...]

Por resolución de 10/06/2021, conjunta de la Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade y la Consellería de Economía, Empresa e Innovación da Xunta de Galicia, Noelia Castro-Chao, miembro del grupo VLCG y actualmente Profesora interina de sustitución en la UVigo, ha obtenido un contrato postdoctoral de tres años de duración (referencia ED481B2021-046). Noelia defendió su [...]

The following PhD dissertation will be publicly defended in the coming weeks: 4 May 2021 (10:30 am, blended): Alba Pérez González, The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach. Supervisor: María José López-Couso. Examiners: Ignacio Palacios Martínez (USC), Javier Calle Martín (University of Málaga), Nila Vázquez (University of Murcia). Link: If you [...]

Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente have obtained the AESLA 2021 Book Award (‘Premio de Investigación Rafael Monroy 2021 de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada’) for the volume Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 91, Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, 2019; viii + 294 pp. ISBN 978 9027202352). Corpus-based Research on Variation in [...]