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During the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM), hosted by the University of Granada, it was announced that LVTC will organise the 28th International Conference of the Society in Vigo, on 15-17 September 2016.

From 22-23 September 2015, the LVTC team hosted a seminar on Data Analysis and Statistics with the open-source software tool ‘R’. The seminar was held by David Lorenz, lecturer and postdoc researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany), and David Tizón-Couto, lecturer and postdoc researcher for the LVTC team.

During the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM), hosted by the University of Granada in 17-19 September 2015, it was announced that Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso, founding member of LVTC, will be the new editor of SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature.

On 19 June 2015 the LVTC team organised a seminar on corpus linguistics, in particular about the Variant Detector software (VARD).

The Inter-university Doctoral programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, run by the Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo), celebrated the IDAES Graduate Day 2015 on May 15th at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo.

On 11 and 12 May 2015 Professors Alexander Bergs, from the University of Osnabrück, and Thomas Hoffmann (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) gave a 12-hour seminar on Language Variation and Change in Construction Grammar.

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’).

http://xornal.vigo.org/xnnoticia.php?noticia=20324

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.