ROMAY, IRIA-GAEL

Iria-Gael Romay holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (June 2006); as an ERASMUS exchange student she studied (2003-2004) at the University of Lublin (Poland). In October 2006 she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of the University of Santiago de Compostela and has now completed one year of postgraduate courses and one of research. From October 2008 to June 2009 she worked under contract as a research assistant to the VLCG project, and in July 2009 she obtained a four-year FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Teresa Fanego. In November 2009 she received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies.

In the autumns of 2010 and 2011 Iria stayed at the Department of Psychology of Georgia State University, where she carried out research under the supervision of Prof. Şeyda Özçalışkan.

 

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: iriagael.romay@usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100 ext. 11974
Office: Room E, first floor

MA Dissertation (January 2010): Verbs, manner and motion: A preliminary cognitive linguistic approach based on evidence from contemporary English. Supervisor: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo.

Publications:

(2011). “A preliminary study of neutral motion verbs in LOB and FLOB”. In Las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones: Presente y futuro en el análisis de córpora. Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, ed. by María Luisa Carrió Pastor & Miguel Angel Candel Mora. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 543-551. ISBN: 978-84-694-6225-6.

conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.