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Workshop at ICAME 39 in Tampere 2018

November 13, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Turo Hiltunen, from the University of Helsinki, will hold the Workshop entitled Democratization in English(es): Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives during the 39th International Conference of ICAME, to be held in Tampere, Finland, from May 30 to June2 2018. The call for papers is open until 15 December.

Cristina Suárez delivers a lecture at the University of Cardiff on relatives in WEs

October 26, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 25 October, Cristina Suárez-Gómez delivered a lecture entitled Language contact and grammatical complexity in the structural nativization of relative clauses in Asian Englishes. She was invited by Dr Sara Pons-Sanz, Senior Lecturer at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy of the University of Cardiff. In her lecture she examined morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes.

Workshop at 7BICLCE: Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes: Apparent-time and diachronic studies

October 03, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 28 September, our team members Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto successfully organised, together with Robert Fuchs (Hong Kong Baptist University), the workshop entitled "Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes: Apparent-time and diachronic studies" within the International Conference 7BICLCE (Vigo, 28-30 September).

Guest Seminar by Michael Westphal: New Englishes - New Methods

September 14, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 2 October Dr. Michael Westphal, from the University of Münster, gave a seminar entitled New Englishes - New Methods, divided into two parts. Part 1 dealt with Tag questions across Englishes with a focus on text type variation, and part 2 concentrated on language attitude research with special reference to mixed methods.

E. Seoane on Editorial Board of Benjamins' Register Studies

June 20, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

Elena Seoane has been appointed to serve at the Editorial Board of the new John Benjamins' journal Register Studies (ISSN 2542-9477), edited by Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University) and Bethany Gray (Iowa State University), with Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) as Consulting Editor.

Raquel P. Romasanta defends her MA Thesis on complementation across varieties of English

June 14, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 14 June Raquel P. Romasanta successfully defended her MA thesis entitled "Synchronic Variation in Clausal Complementation: The case of regret in British and American English". This is her initial step towards a PhD on morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes, which will be supervised by Elena Seoane. Congratulations, Raquel!

Elena Seoane, new member of Executive Board of ICAME

June 08, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

At the General Assembly of ICAME, held during the 38th ICAME Conference which took place at Charles University in Prague (23 to 28 May 2017), Elena Seoane was nominated and elected as a new member of the ICAME Executive Board, where she will serve for a period of four years (opting to renewal for another four years).

Language and Identity in Gibraltar, with M. G. Sanchez

May 04, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

As previously announced, on 26 April the Symposium Language and Identity in Gibraltar was held at the University of the Balearic Islands. The turn out was spectacular, with over 80 students and members of staff, and the interest generated by Gibraltarian writer Mark G. Sanchez was highly remarkable. The organisers, Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro Porto, who also participated in the symposium together with Elena Seoane, want to express their gratitude to M. G.

Language and Identity in Gibraltar: Symposium at UIB

February 22, 2017 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 26 Abril the Symposium Language and Identity in Gibraltar will take place, organised by Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto. They will open the symposium with a talk on the "Sociolinguistic situation in Gibraltar: English, Spanish and Yanito." Invited speakers are Elena Seoane (University of Vigo), who will focus on the compilation of the Gibraltarian component of the ICE (International Corpus of English) project with a talk entitled "Resources for the study of Gibraltar English: Compiling a representative corpus" and Gibraltarian writer Mark G.

The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century

November 17, 2016 Posted by Elena Seoane

On 16 November 2016 we hosted the Seminar The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century. The program comprised three talks, the first by Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands) with the title “Gibraltarian English and its status within ‘World Englishes’”, which dealt with the recent history of Gibraltar and the linguistic status of Gibraltarian English according to model of analyses of World Englishes, essentially Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model and the analyses of data by D. Levey and D.

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Workshop at ICAME 39 in Tampere 2018

Cristina Suárez delivers a lecture at the University of Cardiff on relatives in WEs

Workshop at 7BICLCE: Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes: Apparent-time and diachronic studies

Guest Seminar by Michael Westphal: New Englishes - New Methods

E. Seoane on Editorial Board of Benjamins' Register Studies

Raquel P. Romasanta defends her MA Thesis on complementation across varieties of English

Elena Seoane, new member of Executive Board of ICAME

Language and Identity in Gibraltar, with M. G. Sanchez

Language and Identity in Gibraltar: Symposium at UIB

The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century

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