VÁZQUEZ-LÓPEZ, VERA

Vera Vázquez-López obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2007. As an ERASMUS exchange student she studied (2005-2006) at the University of Manchester, where she also worked as an assistant of Spanish at Xaverian College. In October 2007 Vera was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of the University of Santiago de Compostela; she has now completed one year of postgraduate courses and one of research, and works (since September 2008) as an FPU researcher funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. In November 2008 she received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies.

In the autumn of 2009 Vera carried out research at the Department of English of the University of Tampere, under the supervision of Professor Päivi Pahta.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: vera.vazquez@rai.usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100 ext. 11976
Office: Room C, first floor

MA Dissertation (June 2010): Nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English: Structural and functional perspectives. Supervisors: María José López-Couso & Carlos Prado-Alonso.

Publications:

(2010). "Doublets and nominalization in Early Modern scientific English". 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. 933-944.

Conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.