PRADO-ALONSO, CARLOS

Carlos Prado-Alonso studied English Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela and obtained his MA in 2001. He also holds a Master's Degree in Applied Foreign Languages and Management (Santiago de Compostela, 2003). In April 2004 he completed his MA dissertation and was honored with the Extraordinary Award. As an ERASMUS exchange student he studied at the University of Birmingham, and in 2006 he stayed for four months at the University of Manchester. From October 2003 to January 2008 Carlos was an FPU researcher at the Department of English, under funding from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science; he defended his PhD dissertation in January 2008. From February to September 2008 he worked as a research assistant to the VLCG project, and then as a temporary lecturer at the University of Vigo (October-December 2008). In January 2009 he returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela on a three-year postdoctoral contract 'Angeles Alvariño', funded by the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation (DXIDI) of the Autonomous Government of Galicia.

Carlos was actively involved in the organization of the First ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (10-11 May 2008), and has edited a refereed volume containing a selection of the papers presented at the conference. This season he has taught English Historical Syntax and English as a Foreign Language IV. With María José López-Couso he co-supervised Vera Vázquez-López’s MA dissertation, publicly defended in June 2010.

As from 1 December 2009 Carlos is staying as a Visiting Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid, under the auspices of Professor Juana Marín-Arrese and the Department of English Language and Linguistics.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: josecarlos.prado@usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100 ext. 11993
Office: Room B, first floor

PhD Dissertation (January 2008; European Doctorate): Inversion in written and spoken Contemporary English. Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña. Examiners: Professors Antonio Barcelona (University of Córdoba), Christopher S. Butler (Swansea University), Liesbet Heyvaert (University of Leuven), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands).

Publications:

(Forthcoming). Full-verb inversion in written and spoken English. (Linguistic Insights Series 127). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang.

(2011). “Text structuring in English: The role of inversion”. English Studies.

(2011). "El proyecto 'Variación, cambio lingüístico y gramaticalización': objetivos y líneas metodológicas". In Actas del XXXIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, ed. by Milagros Fernández Pérez. Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [joint paper with Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Elena Seoane].

(2010). “A comprehensive account of full-verb inversion in English”. Folia Linguistica 44.2: 439-484 [joint paper with J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña].

(2009), ed. New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies. (Linguistic Insights Series 103). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang [first editor, with Lidia Gómez-García, Iria Pastor-Gómez & David Tizón-Couto]. ISBN 9783034300469. 350 pp.

(2009). "Introduction: Exploring new methodologies in English language research". In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies, ed. by Carlos Prado-Alonso et al. (Linguistic Insights Series 103). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 11-22.

(2009). “The iconic function of full inversion in English”. In Naturalness and iconicity in language, ed. by Klaas Willems & Ludovic De Cuypere. (Iconicity in Language and Literature Vol. 7). Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 149-166.

(2008). Inversion in written and spoken Contemporary English. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. ISBN 9788498870400. [CD-ROM]

(2007). "Full inversion in fictional and scientific American English". In Studies in contrastive linguistics. Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (Santiago de Compostela, September 2005), ed. by Cristina Mourón Figueroa & Teresa Icíar Moralejo Gárate. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, pp. 845-854.

(2006). “The pragmatics of prepositional and adverb phrase full inversion in fictional and non-fictional British English”. In Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes, Concepción Soto Palomo & María de la Cinta Zunino Garrido. Jaén: Universidad de Jaén. [CD-Rom]

(2005). “Inversion in Present-day British and American English: A corpus-based study”. In Actas del XXVIII Congreso Internacional AEDEAN, ed. by Juan José Calvo García de Leonardo, Jesús Tronch Pérez, Milagros del Saz Rubio, Carme Manuel Cuenca, Barry Pennock Speck & María José Coperías Aguilar. Valencia: Universitat de València. [CD-Rom]

Conference Presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.