29-30 January 2010, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS): I attended the foundational meeting of LingNet Europe. This is an initiative of the Hermann Paul Centre for Linguistics at the University of Freiburg which seeks to establish a small network of centres for linguistics and research groups in Europe, with the participation of research teams from the Universities of Antwerp, Bern, Bolzano, Freiburg, Fribourg, Leuven, Newcastle and Santiago de Compostela.
26 November 2009: the University of Santiago de Compostela was chosen by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Spanish Ministry for Education as one of the nine universities in Spain which can opt for the recognition, in 2015, as Campuses of International Excellence. The objective of the Campus of International Excellence Programme is to fund innovative and competitive initiatives, and improve the international visibility of the top Spanish universities.
2-3 October 2009: the University of Vigo hosted the First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1). This international workshop was organised by Javier Pérez-Guerra and his team at the University of Vigo, in cooperation with my research group, the School of English at the University of Newcastle, and the Functional Linguistics group at the University of Leuven.
June 2009: following a meeting held at ICAME30 (Lancaster) on 28 May 2009, my research group has joined the international consortium of universities carrying out the expansion and tagging of ARCHER, the diachronic corpus of British and American English registers originally compiled by Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan in the early 1990s. For further information on this project visit <http://www.usc-vlcg.es/ARCHER.htm>.
22 April 2009: Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego) taught a four-hour seminar on "The functional organization of English clauses". The course materials can be accessed here.
14 April 2009: Ruth A. Berman (University of Tel-Aviv) gave a lecture at the Faculty of Philology of Santiago de Compostela on the topic "Complex syntax in narrative texts: cross-linguistic comparisons". Click here for an outline of her presentation.
9-15 February 2009: Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo (University of Oviedo) taught a postgraduate seminar on Textual editing and criticism.
19-27 November 2008: Anette Rosenbach (University of Paderborn) taught a postgraduate seminar on Determinants of grammatical variation in English.
14 November 2008: it was announced that the Autonomous Government of Galicia (Directorate General of Scientific and Technological Promotion) had awarded our research team a new grant (2008/047 / 150 000 euros).
10-13th September 2008: David Crystal visited Santiago to participate as a plenary speaker at the First International Conference on English Language Teaching and Learning. This was a meeting organized by my colleagues Ignacio Palacios-Martínez, Mario Cal-Varela, Xavier Fernández-Polo and Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, and in which I was involved as a member of the Programme Committee.
22-29 June 2008: Alexander Bergs (University of Osnabrück) stayed at our Department as a Visiting Professor to teach a graduate seminar on Sociohistorical linguistics: Principles and methods.
14-25 June 2008: Gregory Ward (Northwestern University) stayed at our Department as a Visiting Professor to teach a graduate seminar on Information Structure and Word Order Variation. Here is a picture from the last session.
10-11 May 2008: My student Carlos Prado-Alonso and other postgrads organized the First ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC1). Ingo Plag (University of Siegen), Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) and Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) presented the following plenary papers:
The ELC (English Linguistics Circle) is a network involving our research team (Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization) and the research teams SPERTUS (Spoken English Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Director: Ignacio Palacios) and Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (University of Vigo; Director: Javier Pérez-Guerra).
18-24 February 2008: Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) stayed in Santiago to teach a postgraduate seminar on the topic Goldvarb-ing: Everything you always wanted to know about variation analysis. An outline of the seminar can be found here.
4-10 June 2007: Karin Aijmer (Göteborg University) stayed at the Department of English to teach a postgraduate seminar on “Discourse and corpus studies: Theory and applications”.
31 May 2007: Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University) and Debra Ziegeler visited the Department of English and gave lectures on the topics "Hypotaxis as building-site: The grammaticalization of concessive conditionals" and "Retention and anti-retention in contact grammaticalization", respectively .
4-9 March 2007: Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere) lectured on "Diachronic perspectives on the language of science".
2 December 2006: Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven) visited the Department of English and gave a lecture on "Clausal complementation in English: Variation and change".
October-November 2006: Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) stayed at the Department of English to teach a postgraduate seminar and several undergraduate courses.
October 2006: Vladimir Plungian (Russian Academy of Sciences) visited the Department of English and gave a lecture on the typology of discontinuous past marking.
April 2006: Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) stayed at the Department of English teaching a postgraduate course on typology. In June 2006 Christopher S. Butler (University of Wales, Swansea) and Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) also visited the Department.
