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Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso take over as Editors of RiCL
Carlos Prado-Alonso and Paula Rodríguez-Puente have been appointed editors of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), the official journal of AELINCO, the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics. Their nomination and subsequent election took place during the business meeting of CILC XI, held at the University of Valencia from 15 to 17 May.
RiCL is a peer-reviewed international journal, founded in 2013 and indexed in ERIH Plus, DOAJ and MIAR. Its former editors were our colleagues Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso.
Congratulations to Paula and Carlos!
C.U.P. has just published a research monograph authored by Paula Rodríguez-Puente
Paula Rodríguez-Puente, a member of VLCG, has just published the following important research monograph on the development of English phrasal verbs:
Paula Rodríguez-Puente. 2019. The English Phrasal Verb, 1650-1990. History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xx + 321 pp. ISBN: 9781107101746.
Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from Early modern to Present-Day English, this study covers almost 400 years in the history of English, and provides both a diachronic and synchronic account based on over 12,000 examples extracted from stratified electronic corpora. The corpus analysis provides evidence of how registers can inform us about the history of English, as it traces and compares the usage and stylistic drifts of phrasal verbs across ten different genres – drama, fiction, journals, diaries, letters, medicine, news, science, sermons, and trial proceedings. The study also sheds new light on the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of phrasal verbs, proposing a new approach to the category, considering not only their grammatical features, but also their historical development, by discussing the category in terms of a number of central mechanisms of language change.
Table of contents and additional information available at:
Congratulations!
Behavioral Neuroscience Award for Best Paper in Behavioral Neuroscience for 2018
The paper entitled “Preventing the Return of Fear Memories With Postretrieval Extinction: A Human Study Using a Burst of White Noise as an Aversive Stimulus” from Xosé Fernández-Rey and Jaime Redondo, members of the PCC research team, has been chosen as the winner of the D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award for Best Paper in Behavioral Neuroscience for 2018. This award is decided upon by the editor and consulting editorial board of Behavioral Neuroscience and is made by Division 6 (Society of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience) of the American Psychological Association.
PhD awarded: Yolanda Fernández Pena
On Friday 14 December 2018 Yolanda Fernández Pena brilliantly defended her PhD thesis on Determinants of verb number agreement with complex collective subjects: A corpus-based analysis in English [International Doctorate; cum laude].
Yolanda was a predoctoral student in the LVTC group, under funding from research grants from the Xunta de Galicia (ref. PRE/2013/396) and the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU13/01509). She is currently affiliated with the University of Cantabria as a junior lecturer.
PhD examiners: Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven), J. Carlos Acuña Fariña (Santiago de Compostela) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University). Supervisor: Javier Pérez Guerra (University of Vigo).
Congratulations to Yolanda and her supervisor!
Follow this link to view a nice picture of the public defence.
PhD awarded: Laura García-Castro
On Monday 10 December 2018 Laura García-Castro successfully defended her PhD entitled The complementation profile of REMEMBER in Post-colonial Englishes [International Doctorate].
Laura graduated in 2014 at the University of Vigo, completed an MA in Secondary Education in 2015 and has since been a member of the ViEW project within the LVTC team, on funding from an FPI research grant (BES–2015–071543; 12/2015-12/2018) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. In the incoming days she will become a postdoctoral fellow at Vigo, on a competitive one-year grant awarded by the State Research Agency (‘Agencia Estatal de Investigación’) and the European Social Fund.
PhD examiners: Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven), Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands) and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Vigo).
Supervisors: Elena Seoane (University of Vigo) and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands).
Congrats to Laura and her supervisors on this remarkable achievement!
Cristina Lastres López, elegida nueva presidenta de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas y directora de la revista Estudios Interlingüísticos
Cristina Lastres, miembro del grupo VLCG, ha sido elegida recientemente presidenta de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas y nombrada nueva directora de su revista Estudios Interlingüísticos.
Cristina es actualmente contratada predoctoral FPU y está elaborando su tesis doctoral – un análisis croslingüístico de la subordinación condicional en inglés, francés y castellano – bajo la dirección de Teresa Fanego.
Para una detallada ampliación de esta información, véanse las siguientes notas de prensa:
http://xornal.usc.es/xornal/acontece/2018_11/noticia_0099.html
El Subprograma Estatal de Infraestructuras de Investigación y Equipamiento Científico Técnico concede una importante subvención al grupo LVTC
El Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, a través del Subprograma de Infraestructuras de Investigación y Equipamiento Científico Técnico, ha concedido al Profesor Javier Pérez Guerra y el grupo LVTC una subvención (ref. EQC2018-004934-P) de 291.000 euros destinada a la puesta en marcha en la UVigo de un Laboratorio de Cognición y Lenguaje (Lang&Co. Lab).
Con tal motivo, el próximo jueves 22 de noviembre tendrá lugar una jornada inaugural de conferencias a partir de las 10:30 h., en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Filología y Traducción, con el siguiente programa:
10:30: Inauguración.
11:00-12:30: Conferencia de la profesora Maria-Josep Solé (UAB): “Distinguir entre las propiedades fonológicas y fonéticas en el habla”
13:00-14:30: Conferencia de la profesora Pilar Prieto (UPF): “Una visión multidimensional de la prosodia: lecciones del Romance Prosody Project”
Mario Serrano-Losada has obtained a three-year postdoctoral contract
Mario Serrano-Losada, a member of the VLCG team, has been awarded a three-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship (reference ED481B 2018/041; €42,000 per annum) by the Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion of the Regional Government of Galicia.
Mario, currently a substitute lecturer at the University of Cantabria, defended his PhD on 22 June 2018. Within the next few weeks, he will return to his alma mater, the Department of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Congratulations!
Further information to be found here.
Teresa Fanego, nova presidenta electa da Societas Linguistica Europaea
Teresa Fanego, coordinadora do ELC, vén de ser nomeada este venres 31 de agosto presidenta electa (‘President Elect’) da Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) no marco da asemblea xeral de socios celebrada na Universidade de Tallin (Estonia). Trala súa elección, Teresa Fanego incorporouse ao Comité Executivo da SLE para converterse, a partir do 1 de setembro de 2019, en Presidenta desa prestixiosa institución.
A Societas Linguistica Europaea, con sede en Amsterdam, conta con preto de 1.500 socios. É a asociación de lingüistas de maior importancia a nivel internacional, xunto coa Linguistic Society of America. Foi fundada en 1966 por iniciativa de Werner Winter, catedrático de Lingüística da Universidade de Kiel (Alemaña), coa finalidade de promover o estudo científico das linguas europeas e non europeas. Entre os lingüistas que presidiron a asociación cóntanse, entre outros, André Martinet (U. da Sorbona), Eugenio Coseriu (U. de Tubinga), Josef Vachek (U. de Praga), Peter Trudgill (U. de Friburgo), Bernard Comrie (U. de California en Santa Bárbara), Martin Haspelmath (Instituto Max Planck de Leipzig) ou Ian Roberts (U. de Cambridge).
Teresa Fanego será a primeira persoa de nacionalidade española en acceder á presidencia da SLE nos seus 53 anos de historia, un cargo no que sucederá a Mira Ariel, catedrática de Lingüística da Universidade de Tel Aviv.
Ligazóns:
Artigo completo en El Progreso do 17 de setembro de 2018
Artigo completo en El Correo Gallego do 10 de setembro de 2018
http://xornal.usc.es/xornal/acontece/2018_08/noticia_0008.html
Iria de Dios ha obtenido una beca Iberoamérica – Santander Investigación
Iria de Dios Flores, miembro del grupo PCC, ha obtenido una beca Iberoamérica – Santander Investigación en la convocatoria 2018/2019. La dotación de estas becas, altamente competitivas, asciende a 5.000 euros, destinados a la realización de una estancia de investigación de cuatro meses en un país iberoamericano.
A esta convocatoria han concurrido tanto alumnos de doctorado, a los que se concedieron un total de dos becas, como miembros del PDI.
Congrats to Iria and her supervisor, J. Carlos Acuña Fariña!
