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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

Our new book is now available:  Re-assessing the Present Perfect. Corpus studies and beyond, issue 91 of the De Gruyter's series TiEL (Topics in English Linguistics), edited by Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg), Elena Seoane & Cristina Súarez-Gómez, both ViEW members.

Expertos de sete países converten Vigo nun foro internacional sobre literatura e lingua inglesa medieval

(from http://duvi.uvigo.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11758&Itemid=2)

We are pleased to announced that our new book is now available: World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, issue 57 of the John Benjamins series Varieties of English around the World [VEAW g57], edited by Ele

At  BICLCE6, celebrated at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in August 2015, it was announced that LVTC will organise the 7th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE2017) in Vigo, on 28-30 September 2017.

On 12 April 2016, Evelyn Gandón Chapela, a member of the LVTC team, defended her doctoral dissertation “A corpus-based analysis of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis in Modern English: methodological and theoretical issues” (international doctorate) at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo.

On February 29 and March 1, Professor Ulrike Gut, from the University of Münster, gave an eight hour seminar on “Grammatical variation across varieties of English and the compilation of corpora for their study”.