Two new research projects awarded to ELC members

April 15th: it was announced that research teams led by Teresa Fanego and Elena Seoane have received funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), to carry out the following R&D projects involving international cooperation:

— Exploring gradience and constructionalization in linguistic variation: evidence from contemporary and historical English (grant FFI2014-52188-P;  funding obtained:  93.700 €, plus one four-year PhD research position). Team members: Teresa Fanego, María José López Couso, Belén Méndez Naya, Paloma Núñez Pertejo, Fátima Faya, Carlos Prado Alonso, Paula Rodríguez Puente, Cristina Blanco García, Tamara Bouso, Tania de Dios, Beatriz Mato Míguez, Mario Serrano Losada, Graeme Trousdale (Univ. of Edinburgh), Hubert Cuyckens (KU Leuven), Hendrik De Smet (KU Leuven), Liesbet Heyvaert (KU Leuven).

— Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English) (grant FFI2014-53930-P; funding obtained:  56.900 €, plus one four-year PhD research position). Team members: Elena Seoane (UVigo), Lucía Loureiro Porto (UIB), Cristina Suárez Gómez (UIB), Eva María Vives Centelles (UIB), Jennifer Ballantine (Garrison Library, Gibraltar), Marianne Hundt (Univ. of Zurich), Gerold Schneider (Univ. of Konstanz).