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Paula Rodríguez-Puente obtains a position at the University of Cantabria
Paula Rodríguez-Puente, a member of the VLCG team, has just obtained a position as Lecturer (‘Ayudante’) at the Department of Philology of the University of Cantabria.
Many congratulations to Paula, her PhD supervisor and the VLCG team!
Three new research grants awarded to the ELC teams
The Autonomous Government of Galicia (Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion) has awarded three new research grants (€70.000 each) to the VLCG (grant no. CN2012/012), LVTC (grant no. CN2012/294) and SPERTUS (grant no. CN2012/081) teams.
Carlos Prado-Alonso receives the ESSE Book Award 2012
Carlos Prado-Alonso’s research monograph Full-verb inversion in written and spoken English (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011) has received the ESSE Book Award 2012 for Junior Scholars in the category ‘English Language and Linguistics’. The winners of these prestigious awards were publicly announced at the General Meeting of ESSE, held in Istanbul the first week of September during the 11th ESSE Conference.
Two new research projects awarded to ELC members
Ignacio Palacios and Carlos Acuña-Fariña have received funding from the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness to carry out the research projects detailed below:
- Ignacio Palacios and team: “El inglés hablado contemporáneo: el componente interpersonal en contextos informales y académicos” (grant FFI2012-31450; 01/01/ 2013-31/12/2015).
- Carlos Acuña-Fariña and team: “El procesamiento sintáctico visto desde la interferencia semántica” (grant PSI2012-32834; 01/01/ 2013-31/12/2015).
Congratulations!
Carlos Prado-Alonso obtains a position at the University of Valencia
Carlos Prado-Alonso, a member of the VLCG team, has just obtained a position as ‘Ayudante Doctor’ at the Department of English and German of the University of Valencia.
Congratulations to Carlos, his PhD supervisors and the VLCG team!
News about the ICAME34 Conference at Santiago de Compostela
The 34th International Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in May 2013. Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary University of London), Holger Diessel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) and Ken Hyland (Hong Kong) have agreed to give plenary presentations.
This meeting is organised by the VLCG and SPERTUS teams, in cooperation with ELC. The organising committee is chaired by María José López-Couso.
Read more at Xornal USC 13/06/2012
The activities of the English Linguistics Circle in the press
Visit Xornal UVigo 12/06/2012.
Luis Jiménez and Javier Pérez Guerra have passed the ‘habilitation’ exam
Our colleagues Luis Jiménez (PCC team) and Javier Pérez Guerra (LVTC team) have passed the ‘habilitation’ exam qualifying them for promotion to chairs in Basic and Social Psychology, and English Linguistics respectively. Congratulations!
Isabel Fraga has been elected to the Executive Board of SEPEX
At the 2012 BAPS-SEPEX Meeting held on 10-11 May at the University of Liège, Isabel Fraga was elected to the Executive Board of SEPEX (Spanish Association for Experimental Psychology).
16th Research Seminar
A new ELC research seminar was held on Thursday 7th June.
Speakers:
Montserrat Comesaña (Universidade do Minho): “The interplay of phonology and orthography in visual cognate word recognition”. [abstract]
Rosa Alonso (UVigo): “Thinking for speaking in SLE”.
Hubert Cuyckens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): “Aspects of the history of absolute constructions in English”. [abstract]
Venue: VERBUM Museum
Avda de Samil nº 17 | 36212 Vigo
Time: 11.00-14.00.
