On 24 Oct 2017 it was announced that LVTC was approved as a focus group within the R+D Galician network, and this involves generous funding in the following four years.
On 2 October Dr. Michael Westphal, from the University of Münster, gave a seminar entitled New Englishes - New Methods, divided into two parts. Part 1 dealt with Tag questions across Englishes with a focus on text type variation, and part 2 concentrated on language attitude research with special reference to mixed methods.
We are delighted to announce that LVTC will host the 6th Prescriptivism Conference in Vigo in 2020! This conference series started in 2003 in Sheffield, followed by Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013) and Utah (2017). Keeping the spirit of previous events, we will welcome papers addressing methodological as well theoretical approaches to any aspect of prescriptivism.
LVTC member Elena Seoane has been appointed to serve at the Editorial Board of the new John Benjamins' journal Register Studies (ISSN 2542-9477), edited by Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University) and Bethany Gray (Iowa State University), with Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) as Consulting Editor. Register Studies is a refereed journal devoted to
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
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.
