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Yolanda Fernández-Pena, a member of the LVTC team, has been awarded a three-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship (reference ED481B-2019/077) by the Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion of the Regional Government of Galicia.

Yolanda, currently a Junior Lecturer (‘Ayudante’) at the University of Cantabria, defended her PhD in December 2018. Within the next few days, she will return to her alma mater, the Department of English, French and German at the University of Vigo. 

During the first year of her postdoctoral contract Yolanda plans to continue with her research at the University of Graz (Austria), under the supervision of Professors Gunther Kaltenböck and Javier Pérez Guerra, the latter her PhD advisor and tutor at Vigo. 

Further information can be found at:
http://www.edu.xunta.gal/portal/sites/web/files/20191004_concesion.pdf 

Congratulations!

It was announced on 30 September 2019 that the ‘Centro Internacional de Estudos de Doutoramento e Avanzados da USC’  (CIEDUS) has proposed the PhD dissertations of Zeltia Blanco-Suárez and Tamara Bouso-Rivas for the Extraordinary Awards 2017-2018, in competition with 13 other candidates in the field of Arts and Humanities.

Full details of the dissertations follow here:

– Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Death-related intensifiers in the history of the English language: Grammaticalisation and other processes of language change (International Doctorate). Supervisor: María José López-Couso.
– Tamara Bouso-Rivas, Changes in argument structure in the history of English, with special reference to the emergence and development of reaction object constructions (International Doctorate). Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya.

Congratulations!

To the oft-asked question ‘Is there life after the PhD?’, we can now answer: ‘Yes, there is indeed!’ 

We are happy to announce that Tamara Bouso-Rivas and Mario Serrano-Losada, both members of the VLCG group, have obtained tenure-track positions as Lecturers (‘Ayudantes Doctores’) at the Departments of English of the University of the Balearic Islands and the Complutense University of Madrid, respectively. 

Congratulations to Mario, Tamara, and their supervisors!

La Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) ha otorgado el premio a la Mejor Publicación Científica del Año 2018 (Modalidad ‘Albert Costa’) al siguiente artículo de nuestra compañera Montserrat Comesaña, miembro del grupo PCC:

“The impact of cognateness of word bases and suffixes on morpho-orthographic processing: A masked priming study with intermediate and high-proficiency Portuguese-English bilinguals.” PLoS ONE (2018), 13/3.

El comité de evaluación destaca en su propuesta de concesión que este trabajo expone “a methodologically sound set of experiments that provide important knowledge about the underlying similarities and differences between the manner in which lexical access of polymorphemic words is completed in a native and in a nonnative language as a function of cross-linguistic overlap. The materials are carefully selected and the analysis procedure is of very high quality, providing univocal responses to the main questions of the study.”

Congratulations, Montse!

Idoya Cancelas León and Raquel P. Romasanta have been awarded four-year FPI grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, to prepare their PhDs in the context of the following research projects, respectively:

– “Constructionalization in contemporary and earlier English: Cognitive, variationist and discourse-pragmatic perspectives” (ref. FFI2017-86884-P; PIs: María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya).
– “Re-ViEW: A register approach to morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (The International Corpus of English – Gibraltar)” (ref. FFI2017-82162-P; PI: Elena Seoane). 

Congratulations!

Por resolución de 14/06/2019 das Consellerías de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional, e Economía, Emprego e Industria da Xunta de Galicia concedeuse ao grupo PCC unha importante axuda de investigación dentro do Programa de Consolidación e Estruturación de Unidades de Investigación Competitivas – GPC:

Referencia: ED431 B 2019/20; IP: Isabel Fraga Carou; período de execución: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021; dotación: 90.000 euros.

Parabéns a todos os compañeiros!

Tamara Bouso-Rivas, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a position as ‘Ayudante Doctora’ at the Faculty of Education (Cáceres) of the University of Extremadura. She will be in charge of the subject English as a Second Language. 

Congratulations to Tamara and her PhD advisors, Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) funds world-class, independent researchers in a wide range of subjects from history and archaeology to philosophy and languages. It was recently announced that Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, a member of the LVTC team, and David Denison, Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, have been awarded a major three-year research grant from the AHRC (Ref: AH/S007121/1; 1 million GBP, approx. 1,125,000 EUR). 

For further details, please follow this link.

Congratulations, Nuria!

We are delighted to announce that David Tizón-Couto, a member of the LVTC team, has obtained a tenure-track five-year contract as distinguished senior researcher at the University of Vigo. This has been made possible by the program for the retention of talent implemented at UVigo, which is aimed at highly qualified postdoctoral fellows from the programs Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva, Marie Curie and the like. 

For further details, please click here. 

Congratulations, David!

Our colleague at the Universidade do Minho and member of the PCC group Montserrat Comesaña has been appointed Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology is currently ranked 39 (Q2) out of 135 Psychology journals in the JCR, with an impact factor of 2.089.

Congratulations!