Two ELC members have recently obtained tenure-track positions as AD
Noelia Castro-Chao and Raquel P. Romasanta, who were holders of competitive postdoctoral contracts funded, respectively, by the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish...
Tuesday, 18 April 2023, 5 p.m.: Ana Fernández Dobao (University of Washington): “A study of heritage and second language learners’ interaction and learning: A mixed methods approach” [41st ELC Research Seminar]
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 5 p.m.: Holger Diessel (University of Jena): “Exploring the constructicon: Construction families, grammatical paradigms and syntactic neighborhoods” [40th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 10 October 2022, 5 p.m.: Daniel Schreier (University of Zurich): “Multiple modality in World Englishes: Perspectives from dialect typology” [39th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the PDF and the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 5 p.m.: María del Carmen Parafita Couto (Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC), Universidade de Vigo & Center for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University): “Uniformity and variability in code-switching across multilingual communities” [38th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 9 May 2022, 5 p.m.: Christian Mair (University of Freiburg): “Global Naijá, Global Patois: Migration, Media and the Emergence of Pidgin and Creole-Based Informal Epicentres” [37th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 4 April 2022, 5 p.m.: Mario Serrano-Losada (Complutense University of Madrid): “Meaning in the making: the expression of surprise in the history of English” [36th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 7 March 2022, 5 p.m.: Stefan Diemer (Trier University of Applied Sciences): “The Multimodal Discourse of Persuasion in Instastories” [35th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 5 p.m.: Christian Ilbury (The University of Edinburgh): “What is Multicultural London English?” [34th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 5 p.m.: Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg): “The pragmatics of intensifiers in the Late Modern English courtroom” [33rd ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 5 p.m.: Raquel P. Romasanta (University of Vigo): ”Contact-induced variation and change in World Englishes” [32nd ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 5 p.m.: Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg & Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies): “Reflections on the quantitative turn in linguistics” [31st ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 5 p.m.: Gema Alcaraz-Mármol (University of Castilla-La Mancha) & Jorge Soto-Almela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): “The discursive representation of migrants and refugees in the written press from a CADS perspective” [30th ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 5 p.m.: Jerzy Nykiel (University of Bergen): “Grammaticalization, analogy, and linguistic cycles – insights from the development of (mainly) purpose subordinators in the history of English”. [29th ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 15 March 2021, 5 p.m.: Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria), “Discourse Grammar and its applications: Evidence from language disorder and diachrony.” [28th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Monday, 22 February 2021, 5 p.m.: José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante), “Don’t take it out on words, blame the suffixes: On the morphopragmatic properties of pejorative suffixation in English.” [27th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 5 p.m.: Iria de Dios Flores (USC), “Negative Polarity Item illusions: experimental and theoretical insights.” [26th ELC Research Seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 5 p.m.: Noelia Castro-Chao (USC), “Pathways to English complement clauses: from adverbial subordination to complementation in object territory.” [25th ELC research seminar]
Thursday, 26 November 2020, 5.30 p.m.: Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen / University of Extremadura), “Sure he does be always telling me my heart is too near my mouth: Irish English discourse markers in perspective.” [24th ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 5 p.m.: Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias (USC), “On the syntactic vs. lexical nature of grammatical gender: the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis” [23rd ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 5 p.m.: Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands), “Democratization, prescriptivism and gender-neutrality: the good, the bad and the ugly?” [22nd ELC research seminar] (Contact Lidia Gómez-García to get access to the video recording of the seminar)
20 March 2018, Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 21st research seminar. Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Isabel Fraga (Faculty of Psychology, USC), “Las palabras emocionales desde una perspectiva psicológica (o cuando el usuario de la lengua es el lingüista)” [abstract]
Venue: Faculty of Philology, Room D03
Time: 16:00-18:00
9 May 2014, Verbum Museum (Samil, Vigo), 20th research seminar. Speakers:
Venue: Verbum Museum (Samil, Vigo)
Time: 17.00-19.00
24 January 2014, Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 19th research seminar. Speakers:
Venue: Faculty of Philology, USC
Room 7, second floor
Time: 16.30-18.30
9 April 2013, Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 18th research seminar. Speakers:
Venue: Faculty of Philology, USC
Room: 10, second floor
Time: 16.30-18.30
19 December 2012, Verbum Museum (Samil, Vigo), 17th research seminar. Speakers:
7 June 2012, Verbum Museum (Samil, Vigo), 16th research seminar. Speakers:
Further details at Xornal UVigo
5 March 2012, University of Vigo, Faculty of Philology and Translation, 15th research seminar. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Britta Mondorf (Mainz), “Determinants of grammatical variation in English”.
21 December 2011, University of Santiago de Compostela, 14th research seminar. Speakers:
27 April 2011, University of Santiago de Compostela, 13th research seminar. Speakers:
1 February 2011, University of Vigo, 12th research seminar. Speakers:
9 April 2010, University of Santiago de Compostela, 11th research seminar. Speakers:
22 January 2010, University of Santiago de Compostela, 10th research seminar. Speakers:
28 April 2009, University of Vigo, 9th research seminar. Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) talked on “Cartography, intervention and the left periphery in English”. [abstract]
29 January 2009, University of Santiago de Compostela, 8th research seminar. María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya talked on “Beyond the adverbial domain: On the complementizer use of adverbial subordinators in the history of English.”
16 October 2008, Centro Cultural Caixa Galicia Vigo, 7th research seminar. Speakers:
21 February 2008, University of Santiago de Compostela, 6th research seminar. Speakers:
14 December 2007, University of Vigo, 5th research seminar. Speakers:
18 October 2007, University of Santiago de Compostela, 4th research seminar. Speakers:
18 July 2007, University of Santiago de Compostela, 3rd research seminar. Lidia Gómez-García (USC) presented her research on cleft sentences in Modern English, and Carlos Prado-Alonso (USC) talked on the pragmatic function of full inversion in English press reportage.
30 May 2007, University of Vigo, 2nd research seminar. Iria Pastor-Gómez (USC) presented her research on nominal premodifiers in English noun phrase structure. Nuria Yáñez Bouza (Manchester) talked about preposition stranding in the social history of English from 1500 to 1900.
22 March 2007, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1st research seminar. David Tizón-Couto (Univ. of Vigo) and Ignacio Palacios (Univ. of Santiago) presented their research on left dislocation and learners’ corpora, respectively.