RODRÍGUEZ-ABRUÑEIRAS, PAULA
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2006. In October of the same year she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics, and in September 2008 she obtained a four-year FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, to prepare a PhD on the development and conventionalization of English appositive markers, under the supervision of María José López-Couso.
Paula has carried out research at the Department of English of the University of Helsinki (September 2007-May 2008), at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Manchester (September-November 2009), and at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg (September-December 2010). In November 2009 she received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. Recently, she obtained an ESSE bursary, to carry out research at the British Library.
Contact information:
Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: paula.rodriguez5@rai.usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100 ext. 11976
Office: Room C, first floor
MA Dissertation (April 2009): Including and included as appositive markers of exemplification: A prototypical case of apposition? Supervisor: María José López-Couso.
Publications:
(Forthcoming). “Exemplifying markers in English: On the history of for example and for instance". In Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Theory and description, ed. by Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(2012). "From full verbal forms to markers of exemplification: Including and included as a case of grammaticalisation?". In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II: Studies in variation, meaning and learning, ed. by David Tizón-Couto, Beatriz Tizón-Couto, Iria Pastor-Gómez & Paula Rodríguez-Puente. (Linguistic Insights Series). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 131-148.
(2011). "Apposition vs. exemplification with including and included as markers: Same or different categories?" In Current trends in anglophone studies: Cultural, linguistic and literary research, ed. by F.Javier Ruano García, María Jesús Fernández Gil, Miriam Borham Puyal, María
José Díez García, Santiago Bautista Martín, Pedro Álvarez Mosquera & Blanca García Riaza. (Colección Aquilafuente 172). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISBN: 978-84-7800-157-6.
(2010). ”Including and included as markers of exemplification: A diachronic study”. In Proceedings of the 33rd AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by Rafael Galán Moya et al. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, pp. 267-278.
(2010). “For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day English: A corpus-based study”. In Language windowing through corpora, ed. by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel et al. A Coruña: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de A Coruña, pp. 747-758.
Conference presentations:
See the entry Presentations on this website.
