Dissertations

• (2018) PhD Thesis (International Doctorate, PhD Extraordinary Award in 2020): Determinants of verb number agreement with complex collective subjects: A corpus-based analysis in English. Supervisor: Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra. PhD examiners: Prof. Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven), Prof. Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Prof. Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University).
• (2015) BA Thesis ("tesina"): A corpus-based study on verbal agreement with collective nouns in the recent history of English. Supervisor: Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra.
• (2013) MA Thesis: Verbal agreement and animacy in British English collective noun-based constructions: A case study with of-dependents. Supervisor: Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra.

Publications      

forthc.

• Modelling verb number agreement variation with complex collective subjects in inner-circle varieties of English. In Manfred Krug, Valentin Werner, Ole Schützler & Fabian Vetter (eds.), Perspectives on contemporary English: Structure, variation, cognition. Bern: Peter Lang.

2021

• Agreement morphology errors and null subjects in young (non-)CLIL learners. VIAL, Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics 18(1). 59-96. doi: 10.35869/vial.v0i18.3365 [First author, with Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto]

2020

• Reconciling synchrony, diachrony and usage in verb number agreement with complex collective subjects. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-367-41715-4.​ doi: 10.4324/9780367815899. Reviewed in Nexus 2021.01.
• Review of Laure Gardelle's Semantic plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities. John Benjamins, 2019. Babel - AFIAL: Aspectos de Filología Inglesa y Alemana 29(1). 153-160. doi: 10.35869/afial.v0i29.3282.
• Complex collective subjects in inner-circle World Englishes: Verb number variation and quantifying usage. In Pilar Guerrero Medina, Macarena Palma Gutiérrez & María Valero Redondo (eds.), Advances in English and American studies: Current developments, future trends, 117-129. Córdoba: UCOPress, Cordoba University Press. ISBN: 978-84-9927-546-8.

2018

• The expression of quantification in binominal subjects integrating collective nouns. In Mª Beatriz Hernández, Manuel Brito & Tomás Monterrey (eds.), Broadening horizons: A peak panorama of English studies in Spain, 237-246. La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna. ISBN: 978-84-15939-66-5.
• New insights into the idiomatisation of N_COLL-of-N_PL constructions. In María Ferrández San Miguel & Claus-Peter Neuman (eds.), Taking stock to look ahead: Celebrating forty years of English studies in Spain, 197-206. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN: 978-84-16723-51-5. doi: 10.26754/uz.978-84-16723-51-5.

2017

• Sujetos colectivos y concordancia verbal: Un estudio de frecuencias, semántica y sintaxis (Collective subjects and verbal agreement: A study of frequency, semantics and syntax). RÆL, Revistælectrónica de Lingüística Aplicada 16(1). 70-84.
• Patterns of verbal agreement with collective nouns taking plural of-dependents: A corpus-based analysis of syntactic distance. Corpora 12(2). 207-241. doi: 10.3366/cor.2017.0117.
• Verbal agreement with collectives taking of-dependents: Syntactic and structural complexity as determinant factors. In Sofía Bemposta-Rivas, Carla Bouzada-Jabois, Yolanda Fernández-Pena, Tamara Bouso, Yolanda J. Calvo-Benzies & Iván Tamaredo (eds.), New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III: Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing, 109-130. Bern/New York: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-2039-9, doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0932-0.
• Introduction. In Sofía Bemposta-Rivas, Carla Bouzada-Jabois, Yolanda Fernández-Pena, Tamara Bouso, Yolanda J. Calvo-Benzies & Iván Tamaredo (eds.), New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III: Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing, 7-16. Bern/New York: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-2039-9, doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0932-0. [Third author, with Sofía Bemposta-Rivas & Carla Bouzada-Jabois]
• (ed.) New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III: Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing. Bern/New York: Peter Lang. 280 pages. ISBN: 978-3-0343-2039-9, doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0932-0. [Third editor, with Sofía Bemposta-Rivas, Carla Bouzada-Jabois, Tamara Bouso, Yolanda J. Calvo-Benzies & Iván Tamaredo] 
• Verbal agreement with collective nominal constructions: Syntactic and semantic determinants. Atlantis 39(1). 33-54. 
• 'These points stated, a number of problems remain': A corpus-based analysis of the idiomatisation of collective noun-based constructions. In Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand & Sabine Arndt-Lappe (eds.), Exploring recent diachrony: Corpus studies of lexicogrammar and language practices in Late Modern English (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 18). Helsinki: VARIENG.
• Exploring the patterns of verbal agreement of collective noun-headed subjects in a parsed corpus of Present-Day English. In Chelo Vargas-Sierra (ed.), AESLA 2016 – Professional and academic discourse: An interdisciplinary perspective, 325-334. Manchester: Easychair. doi: 10.29007/8v9n.

2016

• Tracing the history of of-collectives: On the idiomatisation of a number of, a/the majority of and a group of. In Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz & Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena (eds.), On the move: Glancing backwards to build a future in English studies, 247-256. Bilbao: University of Deusto. ISBN: 978-84-15759-87-4.
• Revisiting the role of plural of-dependents on verbal agreement with collective nouns: A syntactic pilot study on New Englishes. In Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz & Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena (eds.), On the move: Glancing backwards to build a future in English studies, 237-245. Bilbao: University of Deusto. ISBN: 978-84-15759-87-4.

2015

• Verbal agreement with collective noun-based constructions: Syntactic and lexical implications of of-dependents. In Alberto Lázaro Lafuente & María Dolores Porto Requejo (eds.), English and American studies in Spain: New developments and trends, 206-217. Alcalá de Henares: University of Alcalá de Henares. ISBN: 978-84-16599-11-0. 

2014

• Collective nouns in English: A corpus-based study on agreement. In Esther Álvarez López, Emilia María Durán Almarza & Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo (eds.), Building interdisciplinary knowledge. Approaches to English and American studies in Spain, 323-334. Oviedo: KRK Ediciones. ISBN: 978-84-8367-475-8.

Conference organisation

I have been involved in the organisation of the following conferences:

University of Vigo

• (23-25 September 2021) 6^th Prescriptivism Conference. Modelling Prescriptivism: Language, Literature, and Speech Communities
• (24-25 May 2018) Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Theories and Methods
• (28-30 September 2017) 7^th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE2017)
• (15-17 September 2016) 28^th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM 28)
• (04-06 February 2015) Exploring Liminality in Anglophone Studies (4^th ASYRAS Conference)
• (04-06 February 2015) Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4)
• (18-19 October 2013) Englishes Today International Conference: Theoretical and methodological issues
• (09-10 November 2012) International Workshop: Ellipsis2012

University of Cantabria

• (27-28 June 2019) On Potentialities (6th ASYRAS Conference)
• (25-27 June 2018) V Congreso Internacional de Lingüí­stica y Literatura: Intersecciones en el Estudio de Lenguas Modernas

Teaching

University of Vigo

I have taught different modules

• (2017/18) Language and society of the first foreign language: English (4th year, Degree in Foreign Languages)
• (2014-18) Structure of the first foreign language: English (4th year, Degree in Foreign Languages)
• (2014/15) Variation and changes in the first foreign language: English (4th year, Degree in Foreign Languages)
• (2013/14) Foreign language I: English (2nd year, Degree in Early Childhood Education)

and collaborated in some others

• (2016/17) Morphosyntax of the first foreign language: English (2nd year, Degree in Foreign Languages)
• (2016/17) Modern language: Language 1, III: English (2nd year, Degree in Translation and Interpretation)
• (2014/15) History of the first foreign language: English (3rd year, Degree in Foreign Languages)

University of Cantabria

• (2019/20) English (1^st year, Degree in Industrial Technologies Engineering)
• (2018-20) English (2^nd year, Degree in Nursing)
• (2018/19) Language acquisition research methodology (Master’s Degree in Second Language Learning and Teaching)
• (2018/19) Conversation in English (4^th year, Senior Program)
• (2017/18) English (1^st year, Degree in Economics)