Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
University of Santiago de Compostela
15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

E-mail: teresa.fanego@usc.es
Phone: +34 981 563100, ext. 11899
Office hours:
Wednesday 12.00-14.00, 16.00-17.00

I work as a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I studied Germanic Philology in Santiago de Compostela and specialized (1975-1976) in English Linguistics at University College London, on a British Council scholarship.

In 1978 I completed my doctorate on “Linguistic Variants in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Editions of Shakespeare”. In 1984 I was appointed Associate Professor of English in Santiago de Compostela and since May 1990 I hold the chair in English Language and Linguistics.

Most of my published work has been on the English of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, English historical syntax, and sentential complement constructions. I am also interested in grammaticalization processes and in functional and cognitive models of grammar.

Since 1990 I have been the director of the research unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization. I am also the coordinator of the research network English Linguistics Circle (ELC), established in December 2006 under funding from the European Regional Development Fund and the Autonomous Government of Galicia. Six years ago (September 2005) I succeeded Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna) as Editor of Folia Linguistica, the peer-reviewed journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea published by Mouton de Gruyter.

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