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ISLE awards Raquel Romasanta the 2020 Richard M. Hogg Prize
Raquel Romasanta, a member of the LVTC team and the research project ViEW, has obtained the prestigious Richard M. Hogg Prize in its 2020 edition. The prize is awarded annually by ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English, to an outstanding paper on any research-related topic in the field of English language and linguistics.
Fuller details can be found at:
http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/news/richard-m-hogg-prize-awarded-raquel-romasanta
Congratulations to Raquel, her PhD advisor Elena Seoane and the ViEW team!
A new research monograph by Iván Tamaredo is out!
Iván Tamaredo-Meira, a member of the VLCG team, has just published the following important research monograph:
Complexity, efficiency, and language contact: Pronoun omission in World Englishes. (Linguistic Insights 270). Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4066-3; 292 pp.
This book, originating in the author’s PhD thesis (2018), supervised by Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña Fariña, provides an assessment of the contribution of pronoun omission to the complexity and efficiency of varieties of English and the influence of language contact on its attestation and pervasiveness.
Table of contents and additional information available at:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72508?format=HC
Congratulations!
Two new research monographs published by ELC members
Our friends and colleagues at ELC, Rosa Alonso and Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, have just published two important monographs. Details follow here:
- Rosa Alonso Alonso. 2020. La transferencia lingüística: perspectivas actuales. Granada: Comares. Pp. 1-160. ISBN 978-84-9045-934-8.
- Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras. 2019. When apposition meets exemplification: A semantic and syntactic description of two related categories. Palma (Illes Balears): Edicions UIB. Pp. 1-152. ISBN 978-84-8384-420-5.
Please visit these links:
https://www.comares.com/libro/la-transferencia-linguistica-perspectivas-actuales_105614/
https://www.amazon.es/When-Apposition-Meets-Exemplification-Description/dp/8483844206
Congrats to both Paula and Rosa!
Bloomsbury Academic has just published a research monograph authored by Evelyn Gandón Chapela
Evelyn Gandón Chapela, a member of the LVTC team, has just published the following important research monograph on ellipsis:
On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi & Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. ISBN: 9781350064515. Pages: 289
This book, originating in the author’s PhD thesis, supervised by Javier Pérez Guerra, investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical, semantic/discursive, usage-related and processing variables.
Table of contents and additional information available at:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-invisible-language-in-modern-english-9781350064539/
Congratulations!
Yolanda Fernández-Pena has obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award 2018-2019
We are happy to announce that Yolanda Fernández-Pena, a member of the LVTC team, has received the Extraordinary PhD Award from the International Doctorate School at the University of Vigo, for her dissertation entitled Determinants of verb number agreement with complex collective subjects: A corpus-based analysis in English (International Doctorate; supervisor: Javier Pérez-Guerra).
Full details of the award ceremony can be found at:
Congratulations!
Montserrat Comesaña obtains a permanent research position
We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Montserrat Comesaña has obtained a permanent position as researcher (‘Investigadora’) at CIPsi (Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga).
Congratulations!
We do really envy Portuguese institutions of Higher Education, for counting Montserrat among their ranks!
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras has been appointed convenor of the Sociolinguistics and Dialectology panel at AEDEAN
At the business meeting of the 43rd AEDEAN International Conference held at the University of Alicante on 13-15 November 2019, Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras was appointed convenor of the Sociolinguistics and Dialectology panel. She succeeds Lucía Loureiro-Porto, who did a wonderful job as convenor over the last three years. Thanks, Lucía!
Paula, currently affiliated with the University of Valencia, did her PhD at Santiago de Compostela within the VLCG group and is now one of the members of the research project ViEW, based at the University of Vigo (PI: Elena Seoane).
Congratulations!
Carlos Prado-Alonso & Paula Rodríguez-Puente announce publication of Volume 7 of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL)
Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso, Editors-in-Chief of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguisitcs (AELINCO), have just announced that Volume 7 for 2019 is now available online at the following address:
https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl
RiCL is a peer-reviewed periodical publication indexed in a number of major databases, such as DOAJ, ERIH Plus and MIAR.
Congratulations to Carlos and Paula, and to the members of ELC that have contributed to this issue!
Paula Rodríguez-Puente obtains the ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2019
At the 43rd AEDEAN International Conference held at the University of Alicante on 13-15 November 2019 Paula Rodríguez-Puente’s research monograph The English phrasal verb, 1650-present. History, stylistic drifts, and lexicalisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) has received the prestigious ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2019.
Congratulations!
Daniela Pettersson-Traba receives the Best Presentation Award AEDEAN 2019
At the 43rd AEDEAN International Conference held on 13-15 November 2019 at the University of Alicante, Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of the VLCG team, received the prestigious Catalina Montes Award to the best presentation by a PhD student, in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics.
Congratulations!
