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, under the supervision of María José López-Couso.
Paula has carried out research at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg (spring 2009), at the Bodleian Library, on an ESSE bursary (January 2010), and at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of the University of Manchester (October-December 2010). She has experience in the compilation of computer corpora: she helped the VLCG team compile British legal texts for the ARCHER corpus, and is currently compiling the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports (CHELAR). She has also been involved in the organization of research meetings: she was one of the organizers of ELC2, the Second International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics, held in October 2009, and is now preparing a new edition of this conference series, to be held in September 2012.
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:
(2012), editor, with David Tizón-Couto, Bea Tizón-Couto & Iria Pastor-Gómez. New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II: Studies in variation, meaning and learning. (Linguistic Insights Series). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang.
(2012). "The development of non-compositional meanings in
phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study". English Studies 93.1: 71-90.
(2011). "Introducing the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports: Structure and
compilation
techniques". Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 15 [Special Issue on Diachronic English
for Specific Purposes].
(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.
