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Elena's website:

Short Bio

Research

• Ongoing research projects 

• Research activities 

• PhD supervision 

• Publications 

• Recent and forthcoming conference presentations 

Teaching 

short bio

1990: MA degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela

1992: FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science

1993-1994: Assistant lecturer at the University of A Coruña

1994-1999: Assistant lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela

1996: PhD supervised by Teresa Fanego on the passive voice in Early Modern English.

1999-2010: Permanent position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela

2006: Visiting Professor at the University of Ösnabruck (winter semester)

2011: Permanent position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo. 

2013: I passed the ‘habilitation’ exam qualifying me for promotion to a chair in English Linguistics.

2015-2016: Head of the Department of English, French and German, University of Vigo

2015-2022: I served as Review Editor of English Language and Linguistics (CUP)

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research

My main research interests are:

• Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes
• Interactions between Gibraltar English and Llanito
• Grammaticalization processes in the history of English
• Active-passive variation in early Modern, late Modern and Present-Day English
• Word order changes in early English
• The development of scientific discourse.

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ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. ViEW Variation in English World-Wide.                            

Funded by

- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant FFI2011-26693-C02-02-C). Name of project "Morphosyntactic variation in New Englishes" PI: Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands)

-  Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant FFI2014-53930-P). Name of project "Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, ICE-GBR) (ViEW)"; PI: Elena Seoane (University of Vigo)

-  Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant FFI2017-82162-P). Name of project: "A register approach to morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study (The International Corpus of English - Gibraltar)' (Re-ViEW); PI: Elena Seoane (University of Vigo).

2. Gibraltar English: Compilation of the Gibraltar English subcomponent of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GBR).

Funded by

- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant FFI2014-53930-P). PI: Elena Seoane

3. Democratization, Mediatization and Language Practices in Britain, 1700–1950 (DEMLANG). 01/09/2016 - 31/08/2020.

Funded by

- The Academy of Finland (Research grant 285381). International Partnership with the Tampere-Helsinki consortium. PI: Paivi Pähta. 

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Back in 1993 I won the annual Atlantis research prize to the best paper in English Linguistics, awarded by the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies.

I served on the editorial board of Atlantis, the official journal of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN) between 2005 and 2014, and between 2008 and 2012 I convened the Historical Linguistics section at its annual conferences.

From 2015 to 2022 I served as Review Editor of English Language and Linguistics (CUP)

From 2017 to 2021 I was in the Executive Board of ICAME, the international organization of linguists and information scientists working with English machine-readable texts.

Since 2017 I serve in the Editorial Board of John Benjamins' journal Register Studies

I also have experience in the organization of research meetings, such as the 26th International Conference of AEDEAN (Santiago de Compostela, December 2002), as Secretary, the Third International Conference 'New Reflections on Grammaticalization' (NRG3, Santiago de Compostela, July 2005), as co-chair, and the international conference Englishes Today: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (University of Vigo, October 2013), as chair. Together with Javier Pérez Guerra I co-chaired BICLCE7 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), held in Vigo 28-30 September 2017 and the International Conference Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Theories and methods, Vigo, 24-25 May 2018. I am the chair of the second Gibraltar International Conference, Gibraltar English: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives (Vigo, 8-9 July 2024).

In 2018, 2019 and 2020 I served on the IsLE Richard M. Hogg Prize committee for young researchers, together with Karen Corrigan (President-elect of IsLE) and Martin Hilpert (Vicepresident of IsLE - Research )

I have given invited talks and plenary lectures in Aachen, Bamberg, Freiburg (FRIAS), Helsinki, Northwestern University, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Palma de Mallorca (University of the Balearic Islands), Tampere, Oviedo (3rd Asyras Conference) and Brno (14th ESSE Conference).

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PhD SUPERVISION

I supervised the PhD dissertation of Lucía Loureiro-Porto (USC, 2005), Eduardo Coto-Villalibre (USC, 2014, jointly with Teresa Fanego and Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, from the University of Santiago de Compostela), Laura García-Castro (UVigo, 2018, jointly with Cristina Suárez-Gómez, UIB), Héctor Agrafojo (UVigo, 2020, jointly with Lucía Loureiro-Porto, UIB), Xoana Costa Rivas (Univ. of Sevilla, 2020, with Sara Pons-Sanz, University of Cardiff, and Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma, University of Sevilla) and  Raquel P. Romasanta (UVigo, 2020, jointly with Prof Manfred Krug, University of Bamberg).

At the moment I'm supervising the following PhDs: 

Heidi Douglas (UVigo) jointly with Lucía Loureiro-Porto (UIB)

Pablo Vilas Santamaría (UVigo) together with Cristina Suárez-Gómez (IUB)

Ricardo Pavón (UVigo)

Anastasia Beloborodova (UVigo) together with Cristina Suárez-Gómez (IUB)

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PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS

• (2000). Aprendiendo y enseñando a traducir / Learning and teaching to translate / Aprendendo e ensinando a traducir. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicacións. [Second author, with Ignacio Palacios].
• (1997). The Passive voice in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicacións. ISBN 848121596.

EDITED BOOKS

• (2024) Seoane, Elena, M.G. Sanchez, Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.). Gibraltarians and their languages - 22 Linguistic Biographies. Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo. 
• (2021) Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.). Corpus based approaches to register variation (Studies in Corpus Linguistics). Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN 9789027210548
• (2018) Seoane, Elena, Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (eds.). Subordination in English. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Topics in English Linguistics 101). Berlin: De Gruyter.   ISBN 978-3-11-058103-4. Reviewed by Adam Smith in English Language and Linguistics (FirstView,doi.org/10.1017/S1360674319000352).
• (2016) Werner, Valentin, Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.). Reassessing the Present Perfect: Corpus Studies and Beyond. (Topics in English Linguistics-TiEL91). Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-044311-0. Reviewed by Johan Elsness in English Language and Linguistics (FirstView).
• (2016) Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.). World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (Varieties of English around the World G57). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. ISBN: 978-90-272-49173. Reviewed by (i) Pam Peters in English World-Wide 38.2: 238-42 (2017); (ii) Sarah Buschfeld in English Language and Linguistics (FirstView); (iii) Simone Bacchini English Today 33.3: 60-61 (2017); (iv) Andrea Sand Anglia 135.3: 561-64 (2017); (v) Amanda Roig-Marín Atlantis 39.2 257-260 (2017). 
• (2015) Suárez-Gómez, Cristina and Elena Seoane (eds.). Englishes Today: Multiple Varieties, Multiple Perspectives. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8386-3. Reviewed by Ana Lúcia Simões Borges Fonseca, Linguist List, Vol-28-99  ISSN: 1069 - 4875 (Jan 05 2017).
• (2008), ed. Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives. (Typological Studies in Language 76). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Second editor, with María José López-Couso]. Reviewed in the Linguist List, issue 20.2282 (2009); Studies in Language 34.1 (2010): 195-204; Folia Linguistica 44.2 (2010): 555-568; eLanguage, issue December 2010.
• (2008), ed. Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization. (Typological Studies in Language 77). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [First editor, with María José López-Couso]. Reviewed in the Linguist List, issue 20.2282 (2009); Folia Linguistica 44.2 (2010): 555-568; Studies in Language 35.1 (2011): 228-237.
• (2003), ed. Fifty years of English Studies in Spain 1952-2002: A commemorative volume. Universidad de Santiago: Servicio de Publicaciones. [Fourth editor, with Ignacio Palacios, María José López-Couso & Patricia Fra López].
• (2002), ed. Sounds, words, texts and change. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins [third editor, with Teresa Fanego & Belén Méndez-Naya]. Reviewed in English Language and Linguistics 8/2 (2004): 355-360; Language 80/1 (2004): 173-174; The Linguist List January 27 2004 (Issue 15.300); The Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2002): 7ff.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• (Forthcoming, 2024) Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane. Towards a classification of Bangladeshi English: a Second Language, a Foreign Language, or Something in between?

• (Forthcoming, 2025) Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane. Gibraltar English. The New Cambridge History of the English Language (General Editor: Raymond Hickey). Vol IV: Varieties of English in Britain, Ireland and Europe ed. by Raymond Hickey.

• (2021). Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber. A Corpus-based approach to register variation. In Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber (eds.) Corpus based approaches to register variation (Studies in Corpus Linguistics). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 

• (2019) Seoane, Elena. 'The role of cotext and context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes.' In Kristin Bech & Ruth Möhlig-Falke (eds.), Grammar - Discourse - Context. Grammar and Usage in Language Variation and Change. Berlin: De Gruyter, 249-277.

• (2018) Acuña-Fariña, Carlos, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez  and Elena Seoane. "Subordination, or the permanent allure of the ‘adjacent possible'".  In Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (eds.).  Subordination in English. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Topics in English Linguistics). Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-21.
• (2018) Seoane, Elena, Cristian Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto. " The ICE project looks at Iberia: The International Corpus of Gibraltar English" In María Ferrández San Miguel and Claus-Peter Neuman (eds.). Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitaria de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 241-247.
• (2017) Seoane, Elena. "Syntax".  In Alexander Bergs & Laurel Brinton (eds.), The history of English 4. Early Modern English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 68-88. [DOI 10.1515/9783110525069-005]
• (2017). López-Couso, MJ and Elena Seoane. "Grammaticalization." In: Anne Barron, Gerard Steen and Gu Yueguo (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. London: Routledge, 277-292.
• (2016) Seoane, Elena. "The perfect in creole-related varieties of English: the case of Jamaican English." In V. Werner, E. Seoane & C. Suárez-Gómez (eds.), Reassessing the Present Perfect. Corpus Studies and Beyond. (Topics in English Linguistics-TiEL91). Mouton de Gruyter, 195-221.
• (2016). Werner, Valentin, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez. "Introduction: The present perfect - a re-assessment." In  In V. Werner, E. Seoane & C. Suárez-Gómez (eds.), Reassessing the Present Perfect. Corpus Studies and Beyond. (Topics in English Linguistics-TiEL91). Mouton de Gruyter, 1-20.
• (2016).  Seoane, Elena. World Englishes Today. In E. Seoane and C. Suárez-Gómez (eds.). World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (Varieties of English around the World G57). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1-16.
• (2016). Seoane, Elena. "Authorial presence in Late Modern English philosophical writing: Evidence from CEPhiT." In 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English Texts on Philosophy, ed. by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 123-144. 

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• (2024) Súárez-Gómez, Cristina and Elena Seoane. The role of attitude studies in sociolinguistic variation research in World Englishes. Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE2024), 26-28 September.
• (2024) Abalo, Laura, Jeffrey Blokzijl, Carmen Parafita-Couto and Elena Seoane. Uniformity and variability in codeswitching patterns:  A comparative analysis of Spanish- English (creole) data from Nicaragua, Miami and Gibraltar. Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, 10-12 January.

• (2024) Blokzijl, Jeffrey, Laura Abalo-Dieste, Carmen Parafita-Couto, Elena Seoane and Margaret Deuchar. Uniform en variatie in codeswitching: Een analyse vans Spaans - Engelse (creeol) data van Nicaragua, Miami en Ginraltar. De Grote Taaldag, Utrecht, 2 February.

• (2024) Seoane, Elena. Invited speaker. "Tejiendo vínculos entre lengua y sociedad: El desarrollo sociohistórico de las lenguas de Gibraltar". Symposium on interdisciplinary studies "Tejiendo vínculos: Mujeres entre lenguas y culturas". Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht, 8 March. 

• (2023) Seoane, Elena. Language Dynamics in Gibraltar: Multilingualism as a socio-historical construct. Invited talk, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. 18 September.
• (2023) Seoane, Elena. Multilingualism in Gibraltar. Invited talk, Department of English Linguistics, University of Dortmund. 14 June.
• (2023) Seoane, Elena. Modelling the linguistic ecology of Gibraltar. Language and cognition seminar, Laboratorio de Lingua e Cognición, University of Vigo, 3-4 July.
• (2023) Seoane, Elena & Cristina Suárez-Gómez. 'Speak, that I may see thee': Language and Identity. Invited talk at John Mackintosh Hall, Gibraltar Cultures Services (Ministry of Education). 21 April.
• (2023) Loureiro-Porto, Lucía and Elena Seoane.  Democratization, colloquialization and informalization in NYT editorials (1860-1979). 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, University of Oviedo, 10-12 May.
• (2023) Abalo, Laura, Jeffrey Blokzijl, Carmen Parafita-Couto and Elena Seoane. Characterising multilingual practices in Gibraltar. International Conference on Multilingual Theories and Practices (MTP 3), Dublin City University, 20-21 April.
• (2022) Suárez-Gómez, Cristina & Elena Seoane. "Shedding light on Bangladeshi English: Its current evolutionary status vis-á-vis other South-East Asian Englishes". 39 AESLA Conference. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 27-29 April.
• (2022) Suárez-Gómez, Cristina, Elena Seoane & Lucía Loureiro-Porto. "The Gibraltar component of the Interntional Corpus of English (ICE-GBR): Methodological contextualization and linguistic exploitation". 39 AESLA Conference. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 27-29 April.
• (2019) Javier Pérez-Guerra & Elena Seoane. Plenary Lecture. "Comparative variation in World Englishes: New, (more) newer determinants?" 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (8 BICLCE). Bamberg, 26-28 September.

• (2019) Seoane, Elena & Cristina Suárez-Gómez. "Assessing complexity in academic and popular writing in Hong-Kong English". 12th Annual International Conference on Languages & Linguistics. Athens, 8-11 July. 
• (2019) Seoane, Elena & Douglas Biber. Workshop convenors. "Register approaches to language variation and change in English(es)." ICAME40. University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 1-5 June.
• (2019) Suárez-Gómez, Cristina & Elena Seoane. "Complexity as a register-specific feature of academic and popular writing in World Englishes." ICAME40. University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 1-5 June.
• (2018) Invited parallel lecture. "A Register Approach to Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes".  14th ESSE Conference. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 29 August – 2 September. 
• (2018) "Language and age: The role of young speakers as instigators of change in World Englishes." Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS.2). Budapest, Hungary, 6-8 September [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2018) Seoane, Elena & Suárez Gómez. "Exploring the youthquake behind language variation and change in spoken World Englishes". ICNICE 2018, University of Santiago de Compostela, 14-15 June.
• (2018) Loureiro-Porto, Lucía & Elena Seoane. "Epicene pronouns, Asian Englishes and register variation: Pulling Ariadne’s thread out of the democratization labyrinth." Workshop Democratization in English(es): Synchronic and diachronic perspectives.International Conference ICAME 39, Tampere, Finland, 30 May - 3 June.
• (2017) Resources for the study of Gibraltar English: Compiling a representative corpus. Symposium Language and Identity on Gibraltar. 26 April, University of the Balearic Islands.
• (2016) The compilation of the International Corpus of Gibraltar English (ICE-GBR): problems and prospects. The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century. 16 November, University of Vigo [with Raquel Pereira Romasanta]
• (2016). "The ICE project looks at Iberia: The International Corpus of Gibraltar English". 40th AEDEAN Conference. University of Zaragoza at Huesca, 9-12 November [with Lucía Loureiro-Porto & Cristina Suárez-Gómez]. 
• (2016). "The entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes from a Usage-Based Theory perspective". 4th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4). Poznan, 18-21 September.
• (2016) "An onomasiological approach to the perfect in African, Asian and Caribbean Englishes." 4th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4). Poznan, 18-21 September [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez].
• (2016) "Socially-induced language change in academic writing", 15-18 June, Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia [with Marianne Hundt].
• (2016) "Predicting voice alternation across academic Englishes". 4-5 April, Workshop Probabilistic variation across dialects and varieties, KU Leuven [with Marianne Hundt].
• (2015) "The rhetoric of science across varieties of English: interdisciplinary variation", 8-10 June, 2nd Conference Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives, University of Helsinki [with Marianne Hundt]
• (2015) "Diachronic change in philosophical writings (1700-2000): Change within a genre or change to a different genre?", 24 April, Research Seminar Virtaa, University of Tampere (Finland)
• (2014) "Who is more active and involved? A corpus-based approach to voice in academic Englishes" 24-27 August, 3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University of Zurich [with Marianne Hundt and Gerold Schneider]
• (2014) "A contrastive analysis of tense in spoken ENL and ESL". 4-6 June, International Conference on Spoken English (ICSE): Descriptive and Applied Perspectives, University of Santiago de Compostela [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez] 
• (2014) Pre-conference Workshop Convenor “Perfect and perfectivity re-assessed through corpus studies”. 30 April-4 May, ICAME 35, University of Nottingham [with Cristina Suárez (UIB) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg)]
• (2013) "The rhetoric of philosophy from Late Modern to Present-Day English: diachronic change or intradisciplinary variation?" 13-15 November, 37 AEDEAN Conference, University of Oviedo, Spain.
• (2013) "Grammatical variation in written and spoken World Englishes: a comparative analysis of the ICE corpora." 18-21 September, 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split University, Croacia [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2013) "Pragmatic and cognitive determinants of grammatical variation in World Englishes" 8-13 September, 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA13), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2013) Plenary lecture "Exploring Variation and Change in New Englishes: Diachronic answers to synchronic questions" 5-7 June, 3rd International Conference of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS), University of Oviedo (Gijón Campus)
• (2013) "Re-examining the levelling of present perfect and simple past in World Englishes" 22-26 May, ICAME 34, University of Santiago de Compostela  [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2012) “Factors determining language variation in New Englishes: Vernacular universals versus contact-induced change” 14-16 November, 36th AEDEAN Conference, University of Malaga [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2012) "The expression of perfect meaning in East Africa and Jamaica" 29 August - 1 September, 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Stockholm [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2011) "The impact of mode on morphosyntactic variation in Asian New Englishes" 16-18 November, 35th AEDEAN International Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2011)  "On hedging adverbs in texts and discourses: A diachronic corpus study of perhaps" 28 September-2 October, Helsinki Corpus Festival: The past, present and future of English historical corpora, University of Helsinki [with Päivi Pahta and Anu Lehto]
• (2011)  "The myth of the have+past participle construction across Englishes" 8-11 September, 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of La Rioja (Spain) [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2011) "'They have published a new cultural policy that just come out': Competing forms in spoken and written New Englishes" 1-5 June, 32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), University of Oslo  [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2010)  "A transnational approach to South-East Asian Englishes: The case of Singapore and Hong-Kong" 11-13 November, 34th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Almería. [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2010) “The expression of the perfect in Asian Englishes” 2-5 September, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Vilnius (Lithuania) [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2010) "I just come in Hong-Kong by myself: Tense in spoken Hong-Kong English" 13-15 May, 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), University of A Coruña [with Cristina Suárez-Gómez]
• (2010)  “Recent and ongoing changes in the use of the passive voice in scientific discourse” 9 February, Linguistics Research Seminar of the University of Tampere.
• (2009) “On the different notions of givenness and their role in the use of long passives” 14-17 July, Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE3), Institute of English Studies, University of London:
• (2009) Invited lecture "The role of syntactic complexity in linguistic change".  30 April, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).
• (2009) Invited lecture: "'Thou shalt not use the passive' or the decay of the passive voice in contemporary scientific discourse" 26 March 2009. Faculty of Letters of the University of the Balearic Islands.
• (2008) Invited presentation:  “The role of syntactic complexity, discourse status and animacy in the use of long passives in Modern English” 12 December 2008. Symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond, organized by Christian Mair at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
• (2008) Invited presentation: "Machine-aided manual retrieval and annotation of constructions: Desiderata for investigating grammatical variation in corpora.” 21-23 July 2008. Symposium on Approaches to Variation and Change in English, held at the University of Bamberg.  [with Nicholas Smith]
• (2007) "On the conventionalization of pragmatic strategies in Late Modern English scientific discourse" 14-17 November 2007: 31st International AEDEAN Conference, University of A Coruña:
• (2007)“The effect of prominence hierarchies on Modern English long passives (1500-1900): Syntactic vs pragmatic factors” 6-11 August 2007, 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 2007), University of Quebec at Montreal.

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Teaching

At the University of Santiago de Compostela (1994-2010) I taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on different aspects of the history of English, both from a synchronic perspective (Old English, Middle English, Early modern English) and from a diachronic one (History of English Syntax, Diachronic Inflectional Morphology, Lexical and Semantic Change, Historical Linguistics). I also taught Contemporary Morphosyntax and English Language.

In the autumn of 2006 (1 October-31 December) I held a visiting professorship at the University of Osnabrück, to lecture on English historical linguistics, and in 2013 I taught a Master Class on Early Modern English at the same university .

I have also taught for briefer periods, or carried out research, at the Universities of Aachen, Helsinki, Manchester, Oulu, Tampere, Leuven, Vienna, Cambridge and Zurich.

This year I teach English Morphosyntax (undergraduate, 2nd year), Sociolinguistics (undergraduate, 4th year) and English for Specific Purposes (Master Class).

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