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, 2020).
This award follows previous research distinctions granted by AEDEAN (November 2021) and AESLA (April 2022).
Congratulations!
For further information, please visit https://lvtc.uvigo.es/blog/lvtc-research-awarded-thrice
Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias has brilliantly obtained a three-year postdoctoral contract
Por resolución de 10/07/2022, conjunta de la Consellería de Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades y la Consellería de Economía, Industria e Innovación da Xunta de Galicia, Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias, miembro del grupo PCC, ha obtenido un contrato postdoctoral de tres años de duración (referencia ED481B2022-041). Ana Rita defendió su tesis en diciembre de 2021, al concluir su contrato predoctoral FPU; sus directoras de tesis han sido nuestras compañeras Isabel Fraga y Montserrat Comesaña (Universidade do Minho).
Para más información, pulsar en este enlace.
Congratulations!
Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez has gained a position as Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at UVigo
We are pleased to announce that Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo.
She has also recently been awarded an “Ayuda del Programa de Estancias de Movilidad en Centros Extranjeros de Enseñanza Superior e Investigación” (Programa Salvador de Madariaga) from the Ministry of Universities, to carry out a six-month research stay at The Max Planck New York University Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME).
Congratulations!
Isabel Balteiro-Fernández has passed the accreditation exam to CU
It was recently announced that Isabel Balteiro-Fernández, currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Alicante, has brilliantly passed the accreditation exam qualifying her for promotion to a position as Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics.
We are delighted to be able to congratulate Isabel, her PhD advisor Ignacio Palacios, the SPERTUS team, and ELC!
Further information on Isabel’s profile can be found at:
https://ieg.ua.es/es/estructura-y-organizacion/pdi-integrante/maria-isabel-balteiro-fernandez.html
Daniela Pettersson-Traba obtains a position as AD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
We are very pleased to announce that Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of VLCG, has obtained a tenure-track position as Ayudante Doctora at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Congratulations!
Upcoming ELC research seminars: February-April 2022
We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held between February and April 2022:
Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm:: Christian Ilbury (The University of Edinburgh): “What is Multicultural London English?” [34th ELC Research Seminar]
Monday, 7 March 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm:: Stefan Diemer (Trier University of Applied Sciences & Saarland University): “The Multimodal Discourse of Persuasion in Instastories” [35th ELC Research Seminar]
Monday, 4 April 2022, 5 p,m.: Mario Serrano-Losada (Complutense University of Madrid): “Meaning in the making: the expression of surprise in the history of English” [36th ELC Research Seminar]
Carmen Parafita Couto obtains a position at UVigo as a ‘María Zambrano’ senior researcher
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 are very pleased to welcome Carmen back!
For further information on her distinguished career, please follow this link:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maria-del-carmen-parafita-couto/publications#tab-4
Congratulations!
PhD defence: Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias
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 an International Mention]. Blended format: Faculty of Psychology (Sala de Xuntas) and via Microsoft Teams (please click here to join the virtual session).
Cristina Suárez-Gómez has passed the accreditation exam to CU
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!
Four new competitive grants awarded to state projects led by ELC members
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 la Sociedad.
Project title: Constructionalization in written and oral discourse: Evidence from historical and contemporary English(es).
PIs: María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Grant PID2020-117541GB-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 la Sociedad.
Project title: Fragments: constructionalising non-canonical expressions in written English.
PI: Javier Pérez Guerra, University of Vigo.
Grant PID2020-118143GA-I00. 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 la Sociedad.
Project title: Cognitive representation of multi-word sequences and reduced variants in L1 and L2 users of English: converging evidence.
PI: David Tizón Couto, University of Vigo.
Grant PID2020-117030GB-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 la Sociedad.
Project title: Morphosyntactic variation in International Englishes and elaboration of resources for its study (International Corpus of English – Gibraltar).
PIs: Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto, University of the Balearic Islands.
Congratulations to Belén, Cristina, David, Javier, Lucía and María José, and to the VLCG, LVTC and ViEW teams as a whole!
For further information and funding allocation to each project, please follow this link.
