RODRÍGUEZ-PUENTE, PAULA

Paula Rodríguez-Puente holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (June 2004). From September 2004 to June 2005 she taught Spanish at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences of the University of Wolverhampton. In October 2005 she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she completed two years of postgraduate courses on a grant from the Autonomous Government of Galicia. From January to September 2008 she worked as a research assistant to the VLCG project. In September 2008 she obtained a four-year FPI grant from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, to prepare a PhD on the grammaticalization of phrasal verbs with get, under the supervision of María José López-Couso.

In the spring of 2009 Paula carried out research at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg (Germany); in January 2010 she stayed at the Bodleian Library, on an ESSE bursary.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: paula.rodriguez.puente@usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100 ext. 11907
Office: Room D, first floor

MA Dissertation (defended October 2007): On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization: Phrasal verbs with get as a test case.  Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Publications:

(2010). "Phrasal verbs in Late Modern English: Evidence from ARCHER 3.1". In Analysing data > Describing variation. Proceedings of the XXVIII International Conference of AESLA, ed. by Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. Vigo: University of Vigo, pp. 865-873.

(2009). “The effects of lexicalization, grammaticalization and idiomatization on phrasal verbs in English: some combinations with get as a test case”. In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies, ed. by Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Gómez-García, Iria Pastor-Gómez & David Tizón-Couto. (Linguistic Insights Series 103). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 71-85.

(2009). "Is there a prototypical phrasal verb? On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization". In Applied linguistics now: Understanding language and mind, ed. by Carmen M. Bretones Callejas et al. Almería: Universidad de Almería, pp. 1671-1680.

(2009). “How to define a phrasal verb? Testing the validity of structural criteria for the identification of phrasal verbs”. In New perspectives on English studies (Proceedings of the 32nd AEDEAN International Conference), ed. by Marián Amengual, María Juan & Joana Salazar. Palma: Edicions UIB, pp. 604-610.

conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.