Profile
Category: PhD student
University: University of the Balearic Islands
Department: Spanish, Modern, and Classical Languages
Phone: +34 -
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Research group: CAVA
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Bio | Research Activities | Teaching | My main interests in ViEW | Publications | Presentations
Bio
I hold a BA in English Studies (2019-2023) from the University of the Balearic Islands. In 2023, I completed my undergraduate thesis on multiple negation in Asian Englishes under the supervision of Cristina Suárez-Gómez, which received the Premi al millor TFG de Estudis Anglesos de la UIB 2022-2023 (BA dissertation extraordinary prize).
I completed a MA in Modern Languages and Literatures (2024) with specialisation in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands. My MA thesis, dealing with the distribution of restrictive adnominal relative clauses functioning as subjects in the written registers of Gibraltar English in contrast to the patterns found in British and United States English, was also supervised by Cristina Suárez-Gómez.
In 2024, I was awarded a four-year predoctoral grant from the Comunitat Autónoma de les Illes Balears (FPU2024-004-C) to work on my PhD dissertation entitled "Relativization strategies in Gibraltar English," which focuses on the non-categorical variation of relative clauses in Gibraltar English, under the supervision of Cristina Suárez-Gómez. While developing my thesis, I am also actively conducting teaching and research activities at the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages of the University of the Balearic Islands.
Research Activities
- Awards
- 2023: BA Dissertation Extraordinary Prize ("Premi al Millor Treball de Final de Grau de la UIB").
- 2024: Four-year predoctoral grant from the Comunitat Autónoma de les Illes Balears (FPU2024-004-C).
- Research stays
- 2025: 2-month research stay at Technische Universität Dortmund (TU Dortmund) under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Buschfeld and Prof. Patricia Ronan.
- 2027: 2-month research stay at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg under the supervision of Prof. Manfred Krug.
Teaching
- English for Specific Purposes courses at the Univeristy of the Balearic Islands: English for Philology and Philosophy; English for Education and Social Work; English III (Degree of Tourism).
- Specialized English Linguistics courses: Introduction to Syntax (Technische Universität Dortmund).
My main interests in ViEW
- Variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics in the field of World Englishes.
- Non-standard negation in Asian Englishes, with reference to the sociolinguistic factors that influence the occurrence and variation of multiple negation in non-native varieties of English.
- Relativization strategies in Gibraltar English, focusing on the intralinguistic and extralinguistic predictors that alter the selection of markers across written and spoken registers.
- Corpus linguistics, especially in relation to the Gibraltarian and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
Publications
- Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. 2026."Multiple Negation in Asian Englishes: A Corpus-Based Analysis." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 44 (2026): 109-32. DOI: 10.14198/raei.28986
- Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. 2025. "Relativization Markers in Gibraltar English." NEXUS 2025(2): 160-61. DOI: Nexus-2025-2.4.26
Presentations
(2026) Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. Everything That Gives Us an Identity: Subject Relativizers in Gibraltar English. 4th Gibraltar International Conference. Cádiz, 6-8 May.
(2026) Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. Relative Clauses in Gibraltar English: Register Variation and Language Contact. 11th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Klagenfurt, 3-5 July.
(2025) Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. Relativization Markers in Gibraltar English. VI AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. University of Cantabria, Santander, 2-4 July.
(2025) Suárez-Goméz, Cristina & María Victoria Rodríguez-Lázaro. Global and Local Norms in Relativization in World Englishes. 48th AEDEAN Conference. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 12-14 November.
(2025) Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. Multiple Negation in Asian Englishes. 48th AEDEAN Conference. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 12-14 November.
(2024) Rodríguez-Lázaro, María Victoria. Relativization Strategies in Gibraltar English. 2nd Gibraltar International Conference (GIC2): Gibraltar English: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives. University of Vigo, 8-9 July.