At present, I am a working on my PhD dissertation at the University of Vigo under the supervision of Javier Pérez Guerra and Paula Rodríguez. My research topic focuses on the predictors of verbal agreement with collective nouns in British English over the last decades.
I hold a BA in English Studies from the University of Oviedo (2021), where I was awarded the Premio Fin de Grado (Bachelor’s Degree Award). My BA thesis was entitled “The Evolution of Agent Prepositions in Passive Structures: A Corpus-Based Study”. In 2021, I was also awarded a Beca de Colaboración (Collaboration Scholarship) by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training to conduct research on variation in English at the Department of English, French and German Philology of the University of Oviedo under the supervision of Paula Rodríguez Puente.
I also completed an MA in Teacher Training at the University of Oviedo (2022) with a dissertation on the pedagogical applications of film and theatre in the teaching of English as Foreign Language to Spanish secondary school students.
I have collaborated with Paula Rodríguez-Puente in the compilation of the Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD). I have also collaborated in the organisation of conferences: CILC XIV (Oviedo, 10th-12nd May 2023), ICAME 45 (Vigo, 18th-22nd June 2024).
In November 2022 I joined the LVTC group on a grant (FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Universities to work on my PhD.
Conference presentations
“Agreement at the Crossroads of Syntax and Complexity: A Quantitative Account of Hybrid Verbal Agreement with Collective Nouns”. ISLE 8. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Santiago de Compostela, 1st-4th September 2025.
“Register differences and extra-linguistic factors in collective-verb agreement”. VI AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Universidad de Cantabria; Santander, 2nd-4th July 2025.
“Collective-verb agreement: Predictors across recent diachrony”. LVTC Seminars. Universidade de Vigo; Vigo, 12nd February 2025.
“Predictores y evolución de la concordancia colectivo-verbo en el inglés británico contemporáneo”. LIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Universidad de Salamanca; Salamanca, 20th-23rd January 2025.
“Verbal Agreement with Collective Nouns in Recent Diachrony”. 47th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; Seville, 6th-8th November 2024.
“Verbal agreement with collective nouns in Present-Day British English”. Graduate Day 2024. Universidade de Vigo; Vigo, 23rd May 2024.
“Approaching non-standard second person pronouns”. IV AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Universidad de Cantabria; Santander, 6th-7th July 2024.
“A preliminary approach to non-standard pronouns in English”. LVTC Seminar. Universidade de Vigo; Vigo, 15th February 2023.
“Second Person Pronouns in Geographical Varieties of English: A Corpus-based Study”. 44th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Extremadura; Cáceres, 16th-18th November 2022.
“The evolution of agent prepositions revisited: A cross-register approach”. 44th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Cantabria; Santander, 24th-26th November 2021.
Publications
Hernández-Coalla, David. 2023. "Second Person Pronouns in Geographical Varieties of English". In Conejero Magro, L.J., Blanco García, C., Méndez Márquez & Ruiz-Morgán, J. (eds.) Bridging Cultures: English and American Studies in Spain. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Unviersidad de Extremadura: Cáceres. 137-143.
Rodríguez-Puente, Paula & Hernández-Coalla, David. 2023. "The Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD): A new tool for analysing recent changes in English legal discourse". ICAME Journal, 47(1): 109-117.
Hernández-Coalla, David. 2022. "The Evolution of Agent Prepositions: A Cross-Register Approach". In Gallardo del Puerto, F., Camus Camus, M.C. & González López, J.A. (eds.) Moving beyond the pandemic: English and American studies in Spain. Editorial Universidad de Cantabria: Santander. 78-84.
Rodríguez-Puente, Paula & Hernández-Coalla, David. 2022. Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD). https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/CoCELD/
