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 Office Newton 9 · Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución · Campus Universitario · E-36310 Vigo (Spain)

 Supervisors: Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena

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Laura Abalo-Dieste holds a BA in Foreign Languages (2020) from the University of Vigo (Spain), which included a semester-abroad at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) within the ERASMUS programme (March-September 2019). She also completed an MA in Advanced English Studies (2021) (linguistics specialisation) at the University of Vigo, with a Master’s Thesis on ‘Fragmentary constructions as proxies for colloquialisation in Present-Day written English’ (supervisor: Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra). In October 2021, she joined the PhD programme in Advanced English Studies at the same university. Her dissertation is framed within the research lines of the ‘Language Variation and Textual Categorisation’ (LVTC) research group in Vigo, particularly within its project “Fragments: Constructionalising non-canonical expressions in written English” (funded by the Spanish Research Agency, grant no. PID2020-117541GB-I00).

As a predoctoral researcher, Laura has carried out:

Research stays:

• In 2023

1. (October-November) at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany), under the supervision of Dr. Manfred Krug.
2. (April-September) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Hoffmann.

• In 2022 (February-May) at Lancaster University (UK) under the supervision of Dr. Vaclav Brezina. 
• In 2021 (September-October) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL; The Netherlands), under the supervision of Dr. María Carmen Parafita Couto.

Publications:

• Abalo-Dieste, Laura. 2024. A corpus-driven taxonomy of strategies for stylistic change in contemporary English. In Ana Montoya Reyes, Anabella Barsaglini-Castro & Estefanía Sánchez-Barreiro (eds.), A Multidisciplinary Approach to Applied Linguistics and Education: Building Knowledge in Foreign Language Teaching, Translation, Critical Discourse Analysis and Posthumanism, 177–208. Berlin: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-90315-5. DOI: 10.3726/b21446.
• Abalo-Dieste, Laura. 2023. Screening colloquialisation strategies in recent diachrony. In Luis Javier Conejero Magro, Cristina Blanco García, Laura Méndez Márquez & Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan (eds.), Bridging Cultures: English and American Studies in Spain, 113–121. Caceres: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Extremadura. ISBN 978-84-9127-212-0. http://hdl.handle.net/10662/18604.
• Abalo-Dieste, Laura & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2021. Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in Present-day English: a corpus-based study. In V.P. Zakharov (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Corpus Linguistics–2021’. July 1–3, 2021, St. Petersburg. Saint Petersburg: Scythia. 56-64. ISSN 2412-9623. ISBN 978-5-98620-557-1.

Conference presentations:

2025

• “Economy and informality: On the complexity of no(t)-fragments”. 16th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2025). University of Salamanca (Spain).
• “Tracing the rise of no(t)-fragments: Colloquialisation in written Present-Day English”. In Andra Kalnača, Paula Ozola and Milan Hoplíček (eds.), 10th International conference ‘Grammar and Corpora’ Book of abstracts. June 26–28, 2025, University of Latvia. Riga: University of Latvia Press. 21-23. DOI: 10.22364/gcc.10.ba.

2024

• “Investigating the role of not-fragments in colloquialisation”. 45th International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English International Conference (ICAME45). University of Vigo (Spain).

2023

• “Fragments as potential proxies for register levelling in contemporary written English”. ESSE Doctoral Symposium. University of Milano (Italy).
• “A corpus-driven study of proxies for register levelling in Present-Day British English”. 12th International Corpus Linguistics conference. Lancaster University (UK).
• Co-authored with Jeffrey Blokzijl, María del Carmen Parafita Couto & Elena Seoane. “Characterising multilingual practices in Gibraltar”. 3rd Multilingual Theories and Practices Conference (MTP3). Dublin City University (Ireland). Presenter.
• “A corpus-based study of colloquialisation strategies in Present-Day British English”. International Workshop Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: cognitive and empirical developments. University of Vigo (Spain).

2022

• “Screening colloquialisation strategies in the recent diachrony”. 45th Conference of the Spanish Association of Ango-North American Studies (Asociación Española de Estudos Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN). University of Caceres (Spain).
• “Colloquialisation and informality: a corpus-driven taxonomy of linguistic features. 13th International Conference in Corpus Linguistics (CILC2022). University of Bergamo (Italy).
• “Fragments as Proxies for Colloquialisation in Contemporary English”. 4th Seminar in English Studies (IV SEING 2022). University of Zaragoza (Spain).

2021

• “Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in Present-day English: a corpus-based study”. International Conference ‘Corpus Linguistics–2021’. St Petersburg University (Russia).
• Co-authored with Yolanda Fernández-Pena. “Fragmentary constructions as proxies for colloquialisation in Present-Day written English”. 12th International Conference in Corpus Linguistics (CILC2021). University of Murcia (Spain).
• “Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in Present-day English: a corpus-based study”. 38th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). University of A Coruña (Spain).
• “Passivisation and relativisation as colloquialisation strategies in Present-day English: a corpus-based study”. Graduate Day 2021. Universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo (Spain). 

R&D activities:

(18-22/06/2024) Member of the organising committee of the ICAME45 International Conference University of Vigo (Spain).

(06-07/10/2022) Member of the organising committee of the International seminar ‘Advancing code-switching research’, University of Vigo (Spain).

Research contracts for national and international projects:

(01/09/2024 - 15/06/2027)

Contract for the training of predoctoral staff - University of Vigo 

(01/09/2021 - 31/08/2024)

Project Fragments: Constructionalising non-canonical expressions in written English (PID2020-117541GB-I00) (IP: Javier Pérez-Guerra, University of Vigo). Contribution: compilation of a database, statistical analyses and characterisation of ‘fragments’ as proxies for stylistic change in English.

(01/01/2021 - 20/11/2024)

Consolidation and organisation of competitive research units – research group ‘Language Variation and Textual Categorisation’ (GRC-ED431C 2021/52; Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade) (IP: Javier Pérez Guerra, University of Vigo; 200.000€). Contribution: support to the research lines of the group.

(01/03/2022 - 31/07/2022)

Project Policy, practice and perceptions: addressing the gender-gap in Liverpool’s schoolchildren writing (IP: Victorina González-Díaz, University of Liverpool). Contribution: syntactic analysis of samples of narrative and argumentative writing by English children in primary education in 1979.

Funding:

• (2024) ISLE Bursary to attend the ISLE Summer School at the University of Freiburg (800€).
• (2023) ESSE Bursary for research trips (1,800€)
• (2022) Research grant AEDEAN Patricia Shaw (800€).
• (2022) Mobility grant for PhD students, University of Vigo (3.000€).
• (2022) Award to academic excellence for students starting a PhD in the academic year 2021/2022. University of Vigo (250€).