GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ, ANABEL

Anabel González-Cruz obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 1998. In October 1998 she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics and from October 2000 to March 2003 she worked at the Department of English of the University of Santiago de Compostela as a researcher of the Autonomous Government of Galicia. From September 2004 to June 2005 Anabel taught at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Liverpool and in July 2005 she passed the national examination qualifying her for a permanent position as teacher of English at the Official School of Languages. She is now preparing a PhD on the development of English adverbial clauses, under the supervision of María José López-Couso.

MA Dissertation (February 2001): Semantic change in adverbial subordination: The case of while-clauses. Supervisor:  María José López-Couso.

Publications:

(2007). "On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations on the development of while-clauses". In Connectives in the history of English ed. by Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 283). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 145-166.

(2004). "Delimiting innovations in the category of adverbial subordinators: Some evidence from the grammaticalization of provided that in early English". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen CV/3: 331-345 [with Rosa Cougil].

(2003). "On the development of deverbal conjunctions. A case study on the grammaticalisation of provided (that) in Early Modern English". In  Nothing but papers, my Lord. Studies in Early Modern English language and literature (SEDERI XIII), ed. by Jorge L. Bueno Alonso, Jorge Figueroa Dorrego, Dolores González Álvarez, Javier Pérez-Guerra & Martín Urdiales Shaw. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, pp. 33-44 [with Rosa Cougil].

(2003). “Adverbials in focus: Adverbial clauses in cleft constructions in the history of English”. In Fifty years of English studies in Spain (1952-2002). A commemorative volume ed. by Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, pp. 311-319.

(2002). “Register influence on language change: Some notes concerning the development of while-clauses in the history of English”. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), Granada, 13-15 December 2001, ed. by Marta Falces Sierra, Mercedes Díaz Dueñas & José María Pérez Fernández. Granada: Universidad de Granada. [CD-ROM]