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One of our research projects (ViEW:  Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, ICE-GBR))  has received funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, grant FFI2014-53930-P).

At a recent meeting, the Press Syndicate of Cambridge University Press formally confirmed the appointment of our colleague Elena Seoane as Review Editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics (ELL), for a four-year term.

From 4 to 6 February 2015 two conferences were held jointly at the University of Vigo: ELC4 and ASYRAS2015, both organised by four postgraduate members of the LVTC research group.

Entitled Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English. Preposition Placement 1500-1900, this book investigates preposition placement in the early and late Modern English periods (1500–1900), with a special focus on preposition stranding (The house which I live in) in opposition to pied piping (The house in which I live).

On 19 January Prof. Philip Miller and Prof. Anne Abeillé taught the seminar “Ellipsis: An Advanced Introduction”, following an invitation by the LVTC group.

On 3 December Javier Valenzuela Manzanares delivered the talk "How language can be based on general cognitive abilities", following an invitation by the LVTC group.

On 18 November Dr Jukka Tyrkkö delivered the seminar Corpora, XML and TEI at the Faculty of Philology and Translation of the University of Vigo. Dr Tyrkkö is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Research at the University of Tampere.

The website of the project ‘The art of writing English’: A corpus of schoolchildren’s writings has just been launched. This project is coordinated by LVTC members Nuria Yáñez-Bouza and Victorina González-Díaz.

The English Linguistics Circle (ELC) network has received funding under grant no. FFI2014-51873-REDT from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, within the programme of Thematic Networks of Excellence (‘Redes Temáticas de Excelencia’).

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Carla Bouzada Jabois has obtained a two-year grant to carry out research on scientific and technical terminology in Galician language, joining the Servizo de Terminoloxía Galega (TERMIGAL).

Prof Dr. Marianne Hundt (University of Zürich) visited our group on the second week of September to do joint research with Elena Seoane, one of our members. Together, they are examining variation in academic Englishes, in particular differences regarding degrees of author involvement as represented in the use of voice alternation.

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".