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nEWS & EVENTS
8-9 July 2010: as part of the activities of the network Corpus Design and Annotation, in which we participate with eight other research groups from Galicia, we have organized an international Seminar on Corpus Linguistics. The speakers were Dominique Longrée (Université de Liège), Mark Davies (Brigham Young University), Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier), Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University), Amaya Mendikoetxea (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), and Christian Mair (Universität Freiburg). The programme can be found here.
15 June 2010: Eduardo Coto-Villalibre obtained a two-year research grant from the Research Council of the University of Santiago de Compostela, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of Elena Seoane.
4 June 2010: It was announced that Iria Pastor-Gómez has obtained a permanent position as Lecturer in English at the Galician School of Higher Studies in Hotel Management, attached to the University of Santiago de Compostela. Congratulations, Iria!
4 May 2010: it was announced that Zeltia Blanco-Suárez has received the National Award for Academic Excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education. Congratulations, Zeltia!
April 2010: María José López-Couso taught an invited seminar at the University of Murcia, within the Master's Degree Programme in English Language and Linguistics.
9 April 2010: 11th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. The invited speakers were Kathryn Allan (University College London) and Eduardo Coto-Villalibre (Santiago); information on the programme can be found here.
8-9 April 2010: Philip Durkin (OUP) and Kathryn Allan (UCL) visited our Department. Kathryn will be an invited speaker at the 11th ELC Research Seminar, with a talk on “An academic question? Exploring the meaning of a contemporary keyword through historical text resources”.
10 February 2010: Cristina Suárez-Gómez has passed the national examination to qualify for promotion to a position as tenured Senior Lecturer.
29-30 January 2010, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS): Teresa Fanego and María José López-Couso attended the foundational meeting of LingNet Europe. This is an initiative of the Hermann Paul Centre for Linguistics at the University of Freiburg which seeks to establish a small network of centres for linguistics and research groups in Europe, with the participation of research teams from the Universities of Antwerp, Bern, Bolzano, Freiburg, Fribourg, Leuven, Newcastle, and Santiago de Compostela.
22 January 2010: 10th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. The invited speakers were Scott Jarvis (Ohio University) and María Luisa Roca (Santiago); information on the programme can be found here.
14 December 2009: it was announced that Nila Vázquez has passed the national examination to qualify for promotion to a position as tenured Senior Lecturer.
26 November 2009: the University of Santiago de Compostela was chosen by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Spanish Ministry for Education as one of the nine universities in Spain which can opt for the recognition, in 2015, as Campuses of International Excellence. The objective of the Campus of International Excellence Programme is to fund innovative and competitive initiatives, and improve the international visibility of the top Spanish universities.
30-31 October 2009: the Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2) was held at the University of Vigo. The conference was organised by postgraduate students from the English
Departments of the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela, and was
supported by the English Linguistics Circle. The plenary speakers were María José López-Couso (Santiago), Geoff Thompson (Liverpool) and Terence Odlin (Ohio State University).
2-3 October 2009: the University of Vigo hosted the First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1). This international workshop was organised by Javier Pérez-Guerra and his team at the University of Vigo, in cooperation with VLCG, with the School of English at the University of Newcastle, and with the Functional Linguistics group at the University of Leuven. NP2 will be held in 2011 at the University of Newcastle.
August 2009: Cristina Suárez-Gómez held a visiting position at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL, México), where she taught a postgraduate seminar on "Variation and linguistic change".
23 July 2009: it was announced that we have been awarded a new grant (2009/047; 120.000 euros) from the Autonomous Government of Galicia, to develop a network on Corpus Design and Annotation. The network is coordinated by Guillermo Rojo, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and comprises nine research groups from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña and Vigo.
June 2009: following a meeting held at ICAME30 (Lancaster) on 28 May 2009, we have joined the international consortium of universities carrying out the expansion and tagging of ARCHER, the diachronic corpus of British and American English registers
originally compiled by Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan in the early
1990s. For further information on this project see the entry ARCHER on this website.
30 May 2009: María José López-Couso was elected to the Executive Board of ICAME, the international organization of linguists and information scientists working with English machine-readable texts.
27 May 2009: it was announced that our PhD students Iria-Gael Romay and Zeltia Blanco-Suárez had been awarded four-year FPU research grants from the
Spanish Ministry of Education.
28 April 2009: 9th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. The invited speaker was Professor Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University), who lectured on "Cartography, intervention and the left periphery in English". Click here for the abstract of her presentation.
24 April 2009: it was announced that Paula Rodríguez-Puente had been awarded an ESSE bursary for 2009, to carry out research at the Bodleian Library.
22 April 2009: Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego) taught a four-hour seminar on "The functional organization of English clauses". The course materials can be accessed here.
14 April 2009: Ruth A. Berman (Tel-Aviv University) gave a lecture at the Faculty of Philology of Santiago de Compostela on the topic "Complex syntax in narrative texts: cross-linguistic comparisons". Click here for an outline of her presentation.
9-15 February 2009: Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo (University of Oviedo) taught a postgraduate seminar on Textual editing and criticism.
29 January 2009: 8th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. Information on the programme can be found here.
23 January 2009: Carlos Prado-Alonso has been awarded a three-year postdoctoral scholarship from the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation (DXIDI) of the Autonomous Government of Galicia for the period December 2008 to December 2011.
12 December 2008: Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane gave invited presentations at the symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond, organized by Christian Mair at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
19-27 November 2008: Anette Rosenbach (University of Paderborn) taught a postgraduate seminar on Determinants of grammatical variation in English.
14 November 2008: it was announced that the Autonomous Government of Galicia (Directorate General of Scientific and Technological Promotion) had awarded the team a new grant (2008/047 / 150 000 euros).
16 October 2008: the English Linguistics Circle held its 7th Research Seminar. The speakers were Ana E. Martínez Insua (UVigo), who talked about "Performative and descriptive speech acts in the recent history of English: a proposal for analysis", and Iria Gael Romay (USC), who presented her ongoing research on English verbs of manner of motion. Further information on the seminar can be found here.
August 2008: at the Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (15 ICEHL; University of Munich) María José López-Couso and Anneli Meurman-Solin (Helsinki) convened a workshop on Information structure and syntactic change. The speakers included Tine Breban (Leuven),
Ans van Kemenade and
Bettelou Los
(Nijmegen), Marit Westergaard and
Toril Swan
(Tromsø), Javier Pérez-Guerra (Vigo),
Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk (York, UK),
and Olga Timofeeva and
Turo Vartiainen (Helsinki).
July 2008: the journal English Language and Linguistics (12.2: 213-394) published a special issue on “English intensifiers” guest-edited by Belén Méndez-Naya. It carries articles by Victorina González-Díaz, Ursula Lenker, Terttu Nevalainen, Carita Paradis, Matti Rissanen, Sali A. Tagliamonte, and Belén herself.
22-29 June 2008: Alexander Bergs (University of Osnabrück) stayed at our Department as a Visiting Professor to teach a graduate seminar on Sociohistorical linguistics: Principles and methods.
14-25 June 2008: Gregory Ward (Northwestern University) stayed at our Department as a Visiting Professor to teach a graduate seminar on Information Structure and Word Order Variation. The course materials can be accessed here: Introduction; Theoretical preliminaries; Preposing; Argument Reversal, as also a picture from the last session.
10-11 May 2008: Carlos Prado-Alonso, Iria Pastor-Gómez and a group of postgraduate students from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo organized the First ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics. The distinguished plenary speakers were Ingo Plag (University of Siegen), Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) and Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh). Below you can find the titles and abstracts of their presentations, and some pictures.
The ELC (English Linguistics Circle) is a network funded by the Autonomous Government of Galicia; it involves our team and the research teams SPERTUS (Spoken English Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Director: Ignacio Palacios) and Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (University of Vigo; Director: Javier Pérez-Guerra).
21 February 2008: the English Linguistics Circle held its 6th Research Seminar. The speakers were Fátima Faya (USC) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto); click here for information on the programme.
19-24 February 2008: Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) stayed in Santiago to teach a postgraduate seminar on the topic Goldvarb-ing: Everything you always wanted to know about variation analysis. An outline of the seminar can be found here.
31 January 2008: Carlos Prado-Alonso publicly defended his PhD dissertation (European Doctorate) on Inversion in written and spoken Contemporary English. Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña. Examiners: Professors Antonio Barcelona (University of Córdoba), Christopher S. Butler (Swansea University), Liesbet Heyvaert (University of Leuven), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands).
14 December 2007: 5th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle; click here for information on the programme.
18 October 2007: 4th Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle; click here for information on the programme.
20 August-24 September 2007: Lucía Loureiro-Porto stayed at the Department of Linguistics of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
23-27 July 2007: Milagros Chao, Fátima Faya, Iria Pastor-Gómez and Carlos Prado-Alonso attended the Summer School on Linguistic Methodology organized in Campobasso, Italy, by the Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Università degli Studi del Molise.
18 July 2007, 11.30 am-14.00 pm, Room C, Faculty of Philology (USC): the English Linguistics Circle held its 3rd Research Seminar; click here for information on the programme.
14-19 July 2007: Lucía Loureiro-Porto participated in the International School on Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics, and Language, held in Erice, Sicily.
5 July 2007: it was announced that the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science had awarded the team a new grant (HUM2007-60706) and had included the project in the category CONSOLIDER, a Programme of Excellence intended to promote high-quality scientific research.
2-6 July 2007: summer course convened at the University of the Balearic Islands by Lucía Loureiro-Porto (jointly with Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez) on Centres i margis de la cultura anglòfona: Cinema, llengua i literatura [‘Centres and margins of anglophone culture: Cinema, language, literature’].
22 June 2007: Pilar Castillo-González publicly defended her PhD dissertation on Uncontracted negatives and negative contractions in Contemporary English: A corpus-based study. Supervisor: María José López-Couso. Examiners: Professors Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), Montserrat Martínez Vázquez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville), Juana Marín Arrese (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Ignacio Palacios (University of Santiago de Compostela), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo).
3-10 June 2007: Karin Aijmer (Göteborg University) visited the Department of English to teach a postgraduate seminar on “Discourse and corpus studies: Theory and applications”.
31 May 2007: Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University) and Debra Ziegeler visited the Department of English and gave lectures on the topics "Hypotaxis as building-site: The grammaticalization of concessive conditionals" and "Retention and anti-retention in contact grammaticalization", respectively .
30 May 2007, 11.30 am-2.00 pm, Faculty of Philology and Translation, University of Vigo: 2nd Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. View the programme and pictures: Iria Pastor, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, David Tizón and Carlos Prado, group 1, group 2.
22 March 2007, 12.00 am-2.00 pm, Room C: 1st Research Seminar of the English Linguistics Circle. Daviz Tizón (Univ. of Vigo) and Ignacio Palacios (Univ. of Santiago) presented their ongoing research on left dislocation and learners' corpora, respectively. [Click here to see some pictures: group1, group2, Ignacio Palacios, David Tizón, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Elena Seoane, Teresa Fanego and Dolores González Álvarez, María José López-Couso and Ana Martínez Insua, Mario Cal, Rosa Alonso and Ignacio Palacios].
15 March 2007: our friend and colleague at the Department of English Carlos Acuña-Fariña passed the national examination qualifying him for a professorial chair in English Linguistics. Congratulations, Carlos!
5-9 March 2007: Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere) lectured on "Diachronic perspectives on the language of science". Click here to see a photograph of Paivi, with Elena Seoane and Teresa Fanego, during her stay in Santiago.
20 December 2006: the research group obtained a new grant (reference no. 2006/14-0; Directorate General of Scientific and Technological Promotion, Autonomous Government of Galicia) to increase its cooperation with the research groups SPERTUS (Spoken English Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Director: Ignacio Palacios) and Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (University of Vigo; Director: Javier Pérez-Guerra).
2 December 2006: Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven) visited the Department of English and gave a lecture on "Clausal complementation in English: Variation and change".
18 October-17 December 2006: Elena Seoane stayed at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) as a Visiting Professor.
She lectured on English historical linguistics.
October-November 2006: Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) stayed at the Department of English to teach a postgraduate seminar and several undergraduate courses.
October 2006: Vladimir Plungian (Russian Academy of Sciences) visited the Department of English and gave a lecture on the typology of discontinuous past marking.
29 August-2 September 2006: at ESSE-8 (Eighth International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of London) Elena Seoane and Päivi Pahta (University of Helsinki) convened a workshop on The Rhetoric of Science Across Times and Disciplines.
June 2006: Christopher S. Butler (Swansea University) and Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) stayed at the Department as Visiting Professors.
The latter was interviewed by Paloma Núñez-Pertejo; click here to read his very interesting comments on teaching, research, and corpus linguistics.
April 2006: Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) stayed at the Department of English teaching a postgraduate course on typology.
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