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Conference closing at Vigo: Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Theories and Methods
La primera edición del Congreso Internacional Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Theories and Methods, organizado por el grupo LVTC y la red ELC en la sede del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO) de Vigo, finalizó el pasado viernes con enorme éxito. Durante dos días, el MARCO reunió a algunos de los especialistas sénior y junior más destacados en el ámbito de la lingüística inglesa, en un simposio que ha servido como ámbito de generación de ideas y plataforma de exposición de los avances en las distintas actividades de la red de investigación ELC.
Nuestro agradecimiento en primer lugar a los tres miembros de ELC más directamente implicados en la organización, Elena Seoane, Javier Pérez Guerra y Yolanda Fernández Pena; asimismo a todos los demás miembros de la red que han hecho posible este evento.
Remito a todos a esta detallada noticia de prensa que recoge imágenes del congreso y da cuenta de su desarrollo:
https://www.uvigo.gal/universidade/comunicacion/duvi/arquitectura-lingua-inglesa-modelase-vigo
Ph.D. Viva Announcement
Ph,D. candidate: Mario Serrano-Losada
Title of Ph.D. Dissertation (International Doctorate): Evidential and mirative expressions in English and Spanish: grammaticalization and discourse functions
Examiners: Professor Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven), Professor Juana Marín Arrese (Complutense University of Madrid), Dr María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya
Date and time: Friday 22 June 2018 at 10:30 am
Venue: Salón de Grados, Facultad de Filología, University of Santiago de Compostela
Belén Méndez-Naya has passed the ‘habilitation’ exam
Yolanda Fernández Pena obtains a position as Lecturer at the University of Cantabria
Yolanda Fernández Pena, a member of the LVTC team, has obtained a position as Lecturer in English (‘Ayudante’) at the University of Cantabria.
Congratulations to Yolanda and her PhD advisor, Javier Pérez Guerra!
It was also announced today that Mario Serrano Losada, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a position at the same University, as Substitute Lecturer in English.
Congratulations to Mario and his PhD advisors, Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez Naya!
21st ELC research seminar: la Prof. Isabel Fraga impartirá el seminario “Las palabras emocionales desde una perspectiva psicológica (o cuando el usuario de la lengua es el lingüista)”
El próximo martes 20 de marzo la profesora Isabel Fraga-Carou, coordinadora del grupo Procesos Cognitivos y Conducta (PCC) impartirá un seminario de investigación titulado “Las palabras emocionales desde una perspectiva psicológica (o cuando el usuario de la lengua es el lingüista)”. Resumen.
Dicho seminario tendrá lugar en la Facultad de Filología de la USC, aula D03, de 16:00 a 18:00.
La actividad está organizada por el grupo de investigación VLCG (http://www.usc-vlcg.es) y la red ELC (https://elc.org.es).
ELC teams pay tribute to Professor Teresa Fanego
The research teams of the ELC network VLCG, SPERTUS, PCC and LVTC have edited two collective volumes that will be published by De Gruyter (Subordination in English, diachronic and synchronic perspectives) and Bloomsbury (Crossing linguistic boundaries: Systemic, synchronic and diachronic variation in English) in tribute to Professor Teresa Fanego, leader of the English Linguistics Circle (ELC) research network. These volumes, which will be available soon this year, include contributions by Bas Aarts, Alexander Bergs, Elisabeth Bruckmaier, Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens, Kristin Davidse, Hendrik De Smet, David Denison, Raymond Hickey, Marianne Hundt, Manfred Krug, Sven Leuckert, Diana Lewis, Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Christian Mair, Rahel Oppliger, Nikolaus Ritt, Günter Rohdenburg, Juhani Rudanko, Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Gunnel Tottie, Gregory Ward and Debra Ziegeler, among others.
EmoFinder now accessible online
EmoFinder, a web-based search engine for Spanish word properties developed by researchers of the PCC group led by Isabel Fraga, is now accessible online at http://usc.es/pcc/emofinder.
This wonderful tool incorporates subjective word properties for 16,375 distinct words. Although it focuses particularly on normative ratings for emotional dimensions (e.g., valence and arousal) and discrete emotional categories (fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness), it also makes available ratings for other word properties that are known to affect word processing (e.g., concreteness, familiarity, contextual availability, and age of acquisition).
Reference:
I. Fraga, M. Guasch, J. Haro, I. Padrón & P. Ferré. (2018). “EmoFinder: The meeting point for Spanish emotional words”. Behavior Research Methods (pub. Jan 8 ahead of print; doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-1006-3)
Two new postgraduate grants awarded to junior members of ELC
Raquel P. Romasanta and Adriana Taboada González, both members of the LVTC group, have been awarded competitive postgraduate grants to prepare their PhD dissertations under the supervision, respectively, of Elena Seoane and Jorge L. Bueno Alonso, under funding from the ‘Convocatoria 2017 de Axudas Predoutorais da Universidade de Vigo’.
The list of applications and results can be checked here.
This is really great news. Congratulations to Raquel, Adriana, Elena, Jorge Luis and the LVTC group!
Ph.D. Viva Announcement
Ph.D. candidate: Tamara Bouso-Rivas
Title of Ph.D. Dissertation (International Doctorate): Changes in argument structure in the history of English, with special reference to the emergence and development of reaction object constructions
Examiners: Professor J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela), Professor Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel), Dr Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands)
Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya
Date and time: Tuesday 23rd January 2018 at 10:30 am
Venue: Salón de Grados, Facultad de Filología, University of Santiago de Compostela
New research project awarded to the VLCG team
It was recently announced that the project proposal submitted in July 2017 to the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness by María José López-Couso and Belén Mendez-Naya as Principal Investigators has received funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research.
Details are as follows:
Grant no.: FFI2017-86884-P, for the period 01/01/2018 – 31/12/2020
Project title: “Constructionalization in contemporary and earlier English: Cognitive, variationist and discourse-pragmatic perspectives”
Funding awarded: 49.610 euros plus one four-year PhD research position
Other team members: Teresa Fanego, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Carlos Prado-Alonso (U. of Oviedo), Paula Rodríguez-Puente (U. of Oviedo), Zeltia Blanco-Suárez (U. of Cantabria), Cristina Blanco-García, Tamara Bouso, Noelia Castro-Chao, Tania de Dios Miguéns, Cristina Lastres-López, Daniela Pettersson-Traba, Mario Serrano-Losada and Iván Tamaredo
Congratulations!
