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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 [...]

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!  

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 [...]

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 [...]