News and Events

On 20 November Professor Dagmar Deuber, from the University of Münster (Germany), gave a four-hour seminar entitled English in the Caribbean and beyond: Corpora, perception studies and models in World Englishes research.

Lucía Loureiro-Porto, together with Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki) held a workshop entitled Democratization in English(es): Synchronic and diachronic perspectives at ICAME 39, Tampere, 30 May-3 June. The success of the workshop was the thematic coherence and quality of the papers given by Minna Palander-Collin, Minna Nevala, Turo Hiltunen,  Jenni Riihimäki, Jukka Tyrkkö, Laura Paterson, Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Elena Seoane, Susanne Wagner, Svenja Kranich, Elizabeth Hampel, Hanna Bruns and Nick Smith.

On December 26th it was announced that our research project  "A register aprroach to morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (The International Corpus of English - Gibraltar),"  Re-ViEW, has received three-year funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, grant FFI2017-82162-P), €60.500 plus one four-year PhD research position.

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.