MEMBER INFO
I have a BA in Elementary School Teaching (2010) and a BA in Foreign Languages with a specialization in English Linguistics (2016), both from the University of Vigo. I completed an MA in Advanced English Studies at the same University, where I also wrote my dissertation on “Synchronic Variation in Clausal Complementation: The case of regret in British and American English" under the supervision of Elena Seoane. In November 2015, I was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Beca de Colaboración) to work as a research assistant in the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo (from November 2015 to June 2016).
In December 2017, I was awarded a two-year predoctoral grant from the University of Vigo to condunct my PhD research. In 2019 I obtained a four-year FPI research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. My PhD is entitled "Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes: A corpus-based study of REGRET" [International doctorate; Cum Laude] and my advisors were Elena Seoane (University of Vigo) and Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg).
Currently I am a full-time postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vigo on a competitive one-year grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
I am a member of the ViEW research project (Variation in English Worldwide), a member of the LVTC (Language Variation and Textual Categorisation) research group and of the ELC (English Linguistics Circle) network.
Contact information:
University of Vigo
Department of English, German and French Philology
Faculty of Philology and Translation
Campus Lagoas Marcosende
Vigo, Pontevedra, ES 36955,Spain
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PROJECTS
Currently, I am a full-time posdoctoral researcher in the project A register approach to morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (The International Corpus of English - Gibraltar); PI: Elena Seoane (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; grant FFI2017-82162-P).
I have also participated in the following projects:
- In November 2017, I worked as a research assistant in the LVTC group (Regional Government of Galicia; grant ED431C 2017-50).
- From July 2016 to August 2017, I worked as a research assistant in the project Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, ICE-GBR); PI: Elena Seoane (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; grant FFI2014-53930-P). I was in charge of the transcription and codification of texts for the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GBR).
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DISSERTATIONS
(December 2020) PhD Dissertation: Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes: A corpus-based study of REGRET (International Doctorate; Cum Laude). Supervisors: Elena Seoane and Manfred Krug. Examining board members: Sarah Buschfeld (TU Dortmund), Lucía Loureiro Porto (University of the Balearic Islands), and Javier përez Guerra (UVigo).
(June 2017) MA Dissertation: Synchronic variation in clausal complementation: The case of regret in British and American English, supervised by Elena Seoane
(June 2016) BA Dissertation: Clausal complementation patterns with the verb remember in Present-Day British English: Variation and factors involved in it, supervised by Elena Seoane
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AWARDS
Richard M. Hogg Prize 2020 of the International Society for English Linguistics (isLE) for the paper Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes
Best Junior Paper Award 2019 of the 8th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (8BICLCE; University of Bamberg, Germany)for the presentation of the paper Negation and the Cognitive Complexity Principle in the English clausal complementation system
Academic Excellence Award within the PhD programme in Advanced English Studies 2017 (Premios Excelencia Académica para novo alumnado de Doutoramento)
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PUBLICATIONS
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- (Submitted) Variation in clausal complementation in contemporary American and British English
- (Submitted) A morphosyntactic approach to language contact in African varieties of English
- (Submitted) Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes
- (Under contract) Clausal complementation in World Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World, VEAW). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019
2017
- Contact-induced variation in clausal verb complementation: The case of regret in World Englishes. In José A. Sánchez-Fajardo & Ignacio Palacios-Mártínez (eds.), Language and Dialect Contact in World Englishes. Special issue of Alicante Journal of English Studies 30: 121-147. [pdf]
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PRESENTATIONS
2021
2020
- "Determinants of variation in sentential complementation in World Englishes: A corpus- based approach." International Conference ICAME 41. Heidelberg, Germany, 20-24 May. Link to video here.
2019
- "The complementation profile of the verb REGRET in World Englishes." Research Seminar of the Department of English, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, 21 November .
- "Negation and the Cognitive Complexity Principle in the English Clausal Complementation System.” 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (8 BICLCE). Bamberg, Germany, 26-28 September. Winner of the Best Junior Paper Award.
- "African, Asian and the metropolitan varieties of English: a study on pluricentrity." International Conference on Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality- Models, Vartieties, Approaches. University of Münster, Germany, 8-10 February.
- "GloWbE: properties, problems and limitations." New Englishes, new Methods: Current methods in New Englishes research. University of Bochum, Germany, 6 February.
2018
- "Complementation patterns of regret in World Englishes." Research Seminar of the Department of English, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, 15 November 2018.
- "English as the lingua franca of the Internet in a polylingual world: Creativity and innovation." Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS.2), Budapest, Hungary, 6-8 September.
- "Substrate influence as a predictor of variability in sentential verb complementation: The case of Hong Kong English." 5th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE-5), London, 17-20 July.
- "'I don't regret towards the support that never came': Innovation in the interface between ELF and World Englishes." ICNICE 2018, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14-15 June.
- "The impact of substrate influence on sentential verb complementation across World Englishes." International Conference ICAME 39, Tampere, Finland, 30 May - 3 June.
- "The verbal complementation profile of regret in World Englishes: Variation and innovation." IDAES (Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Advanced English Studies) Graduate Day 2018. University of Vigo, 4 May.
2017
- "‘I regret that I spoke’ vs. ‘I regret speaking’: Variability in sentential verb complementation in British and American English." 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 2017). University of Vigo, 28-30 September.
- "Morphosyntactic variation in contemporary American and British English: The sentential complementation profile of emotion verbs." IDAES (Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Advanced English Studies) Graduate Day 2017. University of Coruña, 30 May.
- "The clausal complementation profile of the verb regret in British and American English." Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English. 4-5 April, University of Leuven.
2016
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RESEARCH STAYS
2021
2020
2019
2018
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
As a member of the LVTC research group, I have been involved in the organisation of the following international conferences held at the University of Vigo:
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I have taught and collaborated in different modules in the Degrees of Foreign Languages and Translation and Interpretation at the University of Vigo:
