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We are happy to announce that Iván Tamaredo-Meira, a member of the VLCG team, has received the Extraordinary PhD Award 2018-2019 from the International Doctorate School at the University of Santiago de Compostela, for his dissertation entitled Processing grammatical structures: Morphosyntactic complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world, with special reference to pronoun [...]

Fátima Faya Cerqueiro, a member of the VLCG team, has brilliantly passed the examination for promotion to a permanent position as ‘Contratada Doctora’ (Associate Professor) at the USC. Congratulations!

The following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held next term: Thursday, 28 January, 5:00-6:30 pm: Iria de Dios Flores (USC) [26th ELC Research Seminar] Monday, 22 February: José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante), “Don’t take it out on words, blame the suffixes: On the morphopragmatic properties of pejorative suffixation [...]

We are pleased to announce that ELC keeps growing: several new tenured members have recently joined the network, among others Susana Doval Suárez and Elsa González Álvarez, both affiliated now to the SPERTUS team coordinated by Ignacio Palacios Martínez. Welcome!

La convocatoria 2020 de Accións Transversais de Apoio á I+D del Vicerrectorado de Investigación e Innovación de la USC,  co-financiada por la Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade da Xunta de Galicia, ha concedido al grupo VLCG una ayuda por valor de  €3.095 para costear la publicación en abierto de dos artículos aceptados en 2020 por revistas científicas [...]

A new research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams, on Tuesday, 15 December, 5:00 – 6:30 pm. Speaker: Dr Noelia Castro-Chao (USC) Title of talk: “Pathways to English complement clauses: from adverbial subordination to complementation in object territory” Convenor: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (UVigo) Certificates of attendance will be issued. Registration is free. Those interested in connecting [...]

At the General Assembly of AEDEAN held on 13 November, Evelyn Gandón Chapela, a member of the LVTC team, has received the prestigious ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2020 for her research monograph On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi & Sydney: [...]

A new research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams, on Thursday, 26 November, 5:30 – 7 pm. Invited speaker: Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen / University of Extremadura) Topic: “Sure he does be always telling me my heart is too near my mouth: Irish English discourse markers in perspective” (Click on the title to watch the [...]

A new research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams, on Wednesday, 11 November, 5 pm. Invited speaker: Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias (USC) Title: “On the syntactic vs. lexical nature of grammatical gender: the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis” (Click on the title to watch the video recording of the seminar) Convenor: Isabel Fraga Certificates [...]

The following PhD dissertations have been submitted and will be publicly defended in the coming weeks: Héctor Agrafojo Blanco, “The pragmatic markers KIND OF and SORT OF in World Englishes”. Supervisors: Elena Seoane and Lucía Loureiro-Porto. To be defended Thursday 3 December. Carla Bouzada Jabois, “Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of  English” (Cotutelle doctorate opting [...]