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Dr. David Lorenz conducted the research seminar “Frequency Effects in Language” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo, on 4 Dec 2017. 

Grupos de investigación das tres universidades galegas acadan máis de 600.000 euros nas axudas competitivas da Xunta (Xornal da USC, 05-12-2017)

Dr. Cristóbal Lozano conducted the research seminar “Investigating word order in L2 English: triangulating corpus and experimental approaches” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo, on 27 Nov 2017. In the first part, he discussed the findings from a series of studies he carried out in collaboration with Dr.

It is a pleasure to announce that on 2 November 2017, Javier Pérez-Guerra, director of the LVTC research group since its creation, became Full Professor of English Linguistics, the first one in this field at the University of Vigo. Congratulations are in order!

On 24 Oct 2017 it was announced that LVTC was approved as a focus group within the R+D Galician network, and this involves generous funding in the following four years.

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.

The 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English took place in Vigo from 28 to 30 September 2017. The conference was organised by the LVTC (Language Variation and Textual Categorisation) research group at the University of Vigo.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III. Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing, volume 209 of Peter Lang’s series Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication.

We are delighted to announce that LVTC will host the 6th Prescriptivism Conference in Vigo in 2020!  This conference series started in 2003 in Sheffield, followed by Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013) and Utah (2017). Keeping the spirit of previous events, we will welcome papers addressing methodological as well theoretical approaches to any aspect of prescriptivism.

LVTC member 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. Register Studies is a refereed journal devoted to

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, supervised by Elena Seoane, PI of ViEW (Variation in English Worldwide), one of the research projects of LVTC. 

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 three years (opting to renewal for another three years).

On 30 May 2017 the University of A Coruña hosted the IDAES Graduate Day 2017 as part of the training programme for the Inter-university Doctoral programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, which is run by the universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo.

David Tizón-Couto, a member of the LVTC team and formerly a postdoc senior researcher with funding provided by Xunta de Galicia, has been awarded a very competitive postdoctoral two-year contract ‘Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación’, funded by the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness).

LVTC member Nuria Yáñez Bouza has been recently appointed Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. She will thus continue contributing actively to research and teaching activities in the said department, in particular in relation to the compilation of the historical corpus ARCHER and to collaborative work with the John Rylan

(from DUVI, the UVigo e-journal)

O Programa de retención do talento investigador da Universidade permite manter en Vigo a Flora Alonso e Nuria Yáñez

On 19 Dec 2016 it was announced that the LVTC research team led by Javier Pérez-Guerra has received funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), to carry out the R&D project "Variation in micro-diachrony: linguistic choice in 21st-century English" (g

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 mo