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), and at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Manchester (September-November 2009). Recently she received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies.

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:

(Submitted). "Apposition vs. exemplification with including and included as markers: Same or different categories?". In Proceedings of the First Conference of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (University of Salamanca, 1-3 October 2009).

(Forthcoming). ”Including and included as markers of exemplification: A diachronic study”. In Proceedings of the 33rd AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by Asunción Aragón et al. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz.

(2010). “For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day English: A corpus-based study”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), 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.