Raquel P. Romasanta

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.
• (Forthcoming) Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes. English Language and Linguistics.
• (Under contract) Regional syntactic variability in the complementation system of global varieties of English. In Rautionaho, Parviainen, Kaunisto and Nurmi (eds.), Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes: Local and Global Perspectives (Studies in Sociolinguistics). Routledge.
• (Under contract) Clausal complementation in World Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World, VEAW). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2021

• A morphosyntactic approach to language contact in African varieties of English. Studia Neophilologica. [link]
• Substrate language influence in postcolonial Asian Englishes and the role of transfer in the complementation system. English Studies. [link]

2019

• Variability in Verb Complementation: Determinants of Grammatical Variation in Indigenized L2 Varieties of English. In Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto and Päivi Pahta (eds.) Corpus Approaches into World Englishes and Language Contrasts. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English eSeries [link]
• Innovation at the grammar-lexis intersection in World Englishes. Nordic Journal of English Studies 18(2): 1-36. [pdf]

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

• "Contact-induced variation and change in World Englishes". ELC Research seminars. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 28 September.
• "Language contact and substrate language effect in Asian varieties of English." 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 30 August - 3 September.
• "Geographical location as predictor of language variation in postcolonial Englishes." International Conference ICAME 42. Dortmund, Germany, 18-21 August.
• "Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes." 6th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE-6). Joensuu, Finland, 2-5 June. [abstract]
• "Substrate language influence in postcolonial Asian Englishes and the role of transfer in the complementation system." Listening to the Voices That Count: LVTC research seminars. Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 2 June.
• "Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes: A corpus-based study of REGRET." Linguistic Research Colloquium, TU Dortmund. Dortmund, Germany, 5 May.
• "Negation and the Cognitive Complexity Principle in the English Clausal Complementation System." 38th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). A Coruña, Spain, 14-16 April. [link to video]

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

• "The compilation of the International Corpus of Gibraltar English: Problems and prospects." Seminar The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century. 16 November, University of Vigo [with Elena Seoane].

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RESEARCH STAYS

2021 

• Two-month research stay at the University of Dortmund (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Buschfeld.
• One-month research stay at the University of Bamberg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Manfred Kug.

2020

• Two-month research stay at the University of Leuven (Belgium) under the supervision of Prof. Hubert Cuyckens.

2019

• Three-month research stay at the University of Münster (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dagmar Deuber.
• One-month research stay at the University of Regensburg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Edgar Schneider.

2018

• Two-month research stay at the University of Bamberg (Germany) under the supervision of prof. Manfred Krug.

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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:

• (24-25 May 2018) "Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: theories and methods”
• (28-30 September 2017) "7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English" (BICLCE2017)

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