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November 2013: Yolanda Fernández Pena and Mario Serrano Losada have obtained three-year postgraduate grants from the Plan I2C (Directorate General for University Policy) of the Autonomous Government of Galicia.

Yolanda is a member of the LVTC team and her PhD advisor is Javier Pérez Guerra; Mario is a member  of the VLCG team, and his PhD advisors are Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez Naya.

25 September 2013: join us in congratulating Fátima Faya on the completion of her PhD dissertation, entitled Courtesy markers in requests: The case of pray and please in Late Modern English (European Doctorate). Congratulations, too, to her supervisor Belén Méndez-Naya!

Examination Committee: Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), María José López Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands), Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki), Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Vigo)

Venue: Faculty of Philology, USC

4 September 2013: join us in congratulating Paula Rodríguez-Puente on the successful completion of her PhD. Paula’s thesis is entitled The development of phrasal verbs in British English from 1650 to 1990: A corpus-based study. [European Doctorate].

24 July 2013: Join us in congratulating Vanesa Gil-Vilacoba, who publicly defended her PhD dissertation entitled Quirky NPs with special reference to close apposition. Vanesa is a member of the PCC team.

Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela).

Examination Chair: Belén Méndez Naya  (University of Santiago de Compostela).

Examination Committee: Daniel García Velasco (University of Oviedo), Ana Martínez Insua (University of Vigo), Paloma Núñez Pertejo (University of Santiago de Compostela), Elena Seoane (University of Vigo).

5 July 2013: Congratulations to Begoña Soneira, who publicly defended her PhD thesis entitled A lexical description of English for Architecture: A corpus-based study. Begoña is a member of the SPERTUS team.

Supervisor: Ignacio Palacios Martínez (University of Santiago de Compostela).

Examination Chair: Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela).

Examination Committee: Gualupe Aguado de Cea (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Isabel Balteiro Fernández (University of Alicante), Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas (University of Alcalá), Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela).

25 June 2013: Congratulations to Vera Vázquez-López,  who defended her PhD thesis entitled Action nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English. Vera is a member of the VLCG team.

Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and María José López Couso.

Examination Chair: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela).

Examination Committee: Javier Calle Martín (University of Málaga), Belén Méndez Naya (University of Santiago de Compostela), Javier Pérez Guerra (University of Vigo), Nila Vázquez (University of Murcia).

The new Inter-university Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (iMAES), run by the Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo), is an accredited programme which meets the high standards of excellence of the European System of Higher Education.

The Master is a one-year academic programme consisting of 60 ECTS. Classes are held at each of the three organising universities, so that students can choose the location and schedule that best suit their needs and interests.

The Master consists of both attendance-based and online training. There is also a Master’s thesis (12 ECTS), and a practicum module (6 ECTS) which affords students a unique opportunity to work with outside organisations with which the organising universities have established partnership arrangements.

The Master also allows students to begin work on a PhD, in that it provides the preparatory coursework required for writing a PhD dissertation. It constitutes the pre-requisite coursework for the Inter-university PhD Programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, also jointly organised by the Universities of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña and Vigo. This new inter-university PhD programme builds on the strength of pre-existing doctoral programmes which have received Official Recognition for Excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports for the period 2011-2014, under grants MEE2011-0070 and MEE2011-0300 (BOE 20/10/2011).

The Master prepares students for the demanding standards of the international job market and offers advanced training in the core subject areas of English language and linguistics and Anglo-American literature and culture. It also gives students the opportunity to gain practical experience in both conducting and applying linguistics and literary research.

Contact and academic coordination: Dr Margarita Estévez Saá (margarita.estevez.saa@usc.es)

On 12 March it was announced that Montserrat Comesaña (PCC team) and David Tizón-Couto (LVTC team) have been awarded three-year postdoctoral contracts funded by the Plan for Research, Development and Innovation of the Autonomous Government of Galicia. This very competitive programme received over 200 applications; Montserrat and David were among the very few successful applicants in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities respectively.

Congratulations to both of them, as well as to their PhD supervisors, our friends and colleagues Isabel Fraga and Javier Pérez-Guerra.

Further information available at: <http://www.edu.xunta.es/web/node/8832>

A new ELC research seminar will be held on Tuesday 9th April 2013. The two invited speakers are Zeltia Blanco-Suárez (USC) and Begoña Soneira (USC). The topics of their presentations are, respectively:

• “Grammaticalisation and subjectification of death-related intensifiers in the history of English”
• “The role of loanwords in the lexical description of English for Architecture: a corpus-based study”

Venue: Faculty of Philology, USC

Room: 10, second floor

Time: 16.30-18.30

Cristina Blanco-García and Tamara Bouso, both members of the VLCG team, have recently obtained four-year postgraduate grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness  and the Spanish Ministry of Education, respectively. Tamara’s PhD advisors are Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya; Cristina’s PhD advisor is María José López-Couso.