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On 14 June Raquel P. Romasanta successfully defended her MA thesis entitled "Synchronic Variation in Clausal Complementation: The case of regret in British and American English". This is her initial step towards a PhD on morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes, supervised by Elena Seoane, PI of ViEW (Variation in English Worldwide), one of the research projects of LVTC. 

At the General Assembly of ICAME, held during the 38th ICAME Conference which took place at Charles University in Prague (23 to 28 May 2017), Elena Seoane was nominated and elected as a new member of the ICAME Executive Board, where she will serve for a period of three years (opting to renewal for another three years).

On 30 May 2017 the University of A Coruña hosted the IDAES Graduate Day 2017 as part of the training programme for the Inter-university Doctoral programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, which is run by the universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo.

David Tizón-Couto, a member of the LVTC team and formerly a postdoc senior researcher with funding provided by Xunta de Galicia, has been awarded a very competitive postdoctoral two-year contract ‘Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación’, funded by the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness).

LVTC member Nuria Yáñez Bouza has been recently appointed Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. She will thus continue contributing actively to research and teaching activities in the said department, in particular in relation to the compilation of the historical corpus ARCHER and to collaborative work with the John Rylan

(from DUVI, the UVigo e-journal)

O Programa de retención do talento investigador da Universidade permite manter en Vigo a Flora Alonso e Nuria Yáñez

On 19 Dec 2016 it was announced that the LVTC research team led by Javier Pérez-Guerra has received funding from the National Programme for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), to carry out the R&D project "Variation in micro-diachrony: linguistic choice in 21st-century English" (g

On 16 November 2016 we hosted the Seminar The Sociolinguistics of Gibraltar in the 21st Century. The program comprised three talks, the first by Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands) with the title “Gibraltarian English and its status within ‘World Englishes’”, which dealt with the recent history of Gibraltar and the linguistic status of Gibraltarian English according to mo

Our new book is now available:  Re-assessing the Present Perfect. Corpus studies and beyond, issue 91 of the De Gruyter's series TiEL (Topics in English Linguistics), edited by Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg), Elena Seoane & Cristina Súarez-Gómez, both ViEW members.

Expertos de sete países converten Vigo nun foro internacional sobre literatura e lingua inglesa medieval

(from http://duvi.uvigo.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11758&Itemid=2)

We are pleased to announced that our new book is now available: World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, issue 57 of the John Benjamins series Varieties of English around the World [VEAW g57], edited by Ele

At  BICLCE6, celebrated at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in August 2015, it was announced that LVTC will organise the 7th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE2017) in Vigo, on 28-30 September 2017.

On 12 April 2016, Evelyn Gandón Chapela, a member of the LVTC team, defended her doctoral dissertation “A corpus-based analysis of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis in Modern English: methodological and theoretical issues” (international doctorate) at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo.

On February 29 and March 1, Professor Ulrike Gut, from the University of Münster, gave an eight hour seminar on “Grammatical variation across varieties of English and the compilation of corpora for their study”.

On 25 February Dr Lise Fontaine conducted an eight hour seminar on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This seminar was prepared in collaboration with Margaret Berry. The seminar approached the notions of choice, metafunction and meaning.

On 3 December Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands) gave a talk at the Faculty of Philology and Translation entitled “Structural creativity in multilingual countries." In her presentation she examined structural creativity in World Englishes, i.e. varieties of English which have emerged in multilingual countries.

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.