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

On June 22 and 23 2011 Prof Gregory Ward taught the seminar "Information structure and word-order variation".

On June 13 and 14 2011 Prof. J. Lachlan Mackenzie conducted the seminar "Understanding English grammar from the angle of psycholinguistics and dialogue analysis".

On 3 June 2011 Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Málaga) lectured on “Linguistics with corpus: foundations, challenges and applications”.

On 2 June 2011 Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) taught a seminar on "Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Applications".

On 12 and 14 April 2011 Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela) taught a seminar on the grammar and the processing of agreement in English and Romance.

On 1 June 2010, Enric Vallduví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona) conducted a seminar on information structure, invited by the LVTC research group and the MA degree in Advanced English Studies.

On May 10-12 2010 Professor Terttu Nevalainen taught the seminar "Sociolingusitics and the history of English".

The LVTC Research Group had the pleasure to host the 28th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) in Vigo on 15-17 April 2010.

Monserrat Martínez Vázquez delivered a lecture on the syntax and semantics of reaction object constructions (Levin 1993) in English and Spanish. These structures include non-subcategorised objects which express a reaction which is realised by means of the verbal action (Pauline smiled her thanks = ‘Pauline expressed her thanks by smiling’).

The Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2) was held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 30-31 October 2009. The objective of the conference was to provide linguistics postgraduate students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.

The First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven Workshop on ‘The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations’ (NP1) was held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 2-3 October 2009.

Prof Douglas Biber conducted a workshop on the methods and applications of corpus linguistic research methods.

Gert Webelhuth taught a seminar on "Sign-based Construction Grammar: an overview and application", by invitation of the LVTC research group, in which he introduced the philosophy underlying the constructional approaches and described Sign-based Construction Grammar.

Liliane Haegeman conducted the seminar “Cartography, intervention and the left periphery in English”, in which she paid attention to the revision of Rizzi’s cartography as well as to consequences which the placement of adverbials has for the syntax of the clause.

Lachlan Mackenzie, from the VU University Amsterdam, conducted a five-hour seminar in which he presented a functional-typological approach to language.

Javier Martín Arista delivered the lecture "From the dictionary to the lexical database of Old English: theoretical, methodological and descriptive aspects" by invitation of the LVTC research group.

Heinz Giegerich, from the University of Edinburgh, taught a five-hour seminar on various aspects of morphophonology and English metrics.