Major Conferences Organized (1990-present)

24-27 september 1991: Fourth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). Position: Chair.

7-11 September 2000: Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (11 ICEHL). Position: Chair. This conference series is the major forum for debate in the field of English historical linguistics; the last edition (16 ICEHL) was hosted by the University of Pécs. 17 ICEHL will be held at the University of Zurich from 20-25 August 2012.

12-14 December 2002: 26th International Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Position: member of the Organizing Committee.

17-20 July 2005: Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization (NRG3). Position: member of the Organizing Committee. Other editions of NRG were held in Potsdam (1999), Amsterdam (2002), and Leuven (2008).

10-11 May 2008: First International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC1). This was a meeting for PhD students organized by my students Carlos Prado-Alonso, Iria Pastor-Gómez and other postgrads, and supported by my research group. The distinguished plenary speakers were Ingo Plag (University of Siegen), Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) and Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

21-22 September 2012: Third International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3). The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation: José Manuel Igoa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Pilar García-Mayo (University of the Basque Country), Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh).