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Maria Luisa Carrió Pastor, senior lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de València, delivered the lecture “Research in linguistics – publish or perish!” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo on September 24 2014, following an invitation by the LVTC group.

Yolanda Fernández-Pena has obtained a competitive four-year FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education.

On 26 August it was announced that Nuria Yáñez-Bouza has received generous funding (88,000 Euros) from the Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria (Axudas para proxectos de investigación desenvolvidos por investigadores emerxentes)

The LVTC group participated in a European Erasmus LLP project on teaching English from an intercultural perspective. Teachers and students presented their contributions at a meeting in Poland.

On 3 April 2014 Dr Philip Durkin gave a seminar entitled Etymology and the OED: linguistic approaches to lexicographical problems at the Faculty of Philology and Translation. Dr Durkin is Deputy Chief Editor and Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary.

On 21 November, Professor Pascual Cantos Gómez conducted a four-hour seminar on "Quantifying linguistic data: statistical description, decision taking and modeling".

On 29 October, Professor Päivi Pahta gave a seminar on Multilingual Practices in Writing at the Faculty of Philology and Translation.

On 18-19 October 2013 we had the pleasure of hosting the International Conference Englishes Today: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.

Dr. Magnus Levin conducted a seminar on "Change and variation in the English verb phrase, with a focus on progressives and Global Englishes" on 23 October 2013 at the Faculty of Philology and Translation. Dr Levin is Senior Lecturer at Linnaeus University (Department of Languages), where he teaches English linguistics and language proficiency courses.

The Inter-university Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (iMAES), run by the Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo), in Galicia (Northwestern Spain), is an accredited programme which meets the high standards of excellence of the European System of Higher Education.

On 18-19 October 2013 we will host the International Conference Englishes Today: Theoretical and Methodological Issues, with the following plenary speakers: Christian Mair (Freiburg), Stephanie Hackert (Munich), Marianne Hundt (Zurich) and Edgar Schneider (Regensburg).

On 22nd April 2013, Michael James O'Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) conducted the workshop “Systemic-Functional linguistics and corpus annotation” at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo, invited by the LVTC research group.

The LVTC Research Group had the pleasure to host the International Workshop 'ELLIPSIS2012: crosslinguistic, formal, semantic, discoursive and processing perspectives' in Vigo on 09-10 November 2012. 

On October 30 Prof. Sebastian Hoffmann taught the seminar “Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb”.

On May 15 and 16 2012 Prof. J. Lachlan Mackenzie conducted the seminar ‘Topics in English grammar and lexis’.

On April 23 2012 Dr Graeme Trousdale taught the seminar "Constructionalization and constructional changes in the history of English".

On March 5 and 6 2012 Prof. Britta Mondorf taught the seminar "Determinants of grammatical variation in English".

On January 9 and 10 2012 Prof. Marianne Hundt taught the seminar "Variable article use".