PhD Dissertations - Completed

February 1993: Ignacio Palacios, "An Analysis and appraisal of the current situation of EFL teaching in secondary and tertiary institutions in Spain from the perspectives of teachers and learners". Published as La enseñanza del inglés en España a debate: perspectivas de profesores y alumnos. (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1994. ISBN 8481211117). Ignacio works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela and is the director of two different research projects: a) Communicating in Multilingual Contexts, funded by the European Commission in the framework of Socrates/Erasmus Programme Action Lingua 2; b) SPERTUS (Spoken English Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela), funded by the Autonomus Government of Galicia (INCITE grant 08PXIB204033PR).

October 1993: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña, “On so-called appositive structures in English.” Published as The puzzle of apposition: On so-called appositive structures in English (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1996. ISBN 8481213942). Carlos is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and coordinates the research project "Semantic Interference on Syntactic Operations", funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Autonomous Government of Galicia (grants SEJ2005-08911/PSIC, PSI2009/11748, and INCITE09 204 014PR).

October 1994: Mª José López-Couso, “Finite complementation in the works of John Dryden: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1995. ISBN 8481212083). María José is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

March 1995: Belén Méndez-Naya, “Finite complementation in Old English: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1995. ISBN 8481212881). Belén is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

November 1996: Elena Seoane, “The passive voice in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1997. ISBN 8481215961). Elena is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

December 1996 [joint supervision with Christopher S. Butler]: María A. Gómez, “A corpus-based approach to Theme in Present-day British English” [European Doctorate]. Published as The Theme-Topic interface: Evidence from English (Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. ISBN 9027250863). María is a Professor of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela and coordinates the research project SCIMITAR (Santiago-Centred International Milieu for Interactional, Typological and Acquisitional Research).

April 1999: Javier Pérez-Guerra, “Thematic variation in English: A corpus-based study of the thematic organisation of English declarative sentences in the recent history of the language”. Published in LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics as Historical English syntax: A statistical corpus-based study on the organisation of Early Modern English sentences (Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 1999. ISBN 3895866512). Javier works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo and is the coordinator of the research project Language Variation and Textual Categorisation, funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (grants BFF2001-3505, HUM2005-02351, FFI2009-11274) and the Autonomous Government of Galicia (INCITE grant 08PXIB204016PR).

October 1999 [joint supervision with Ignacio Palacios]: Rosa Alonso, “Language transfer in interlanguage with special reference to adverbial placement”. Published as The role of transfer in second language acquisition (Universidad de Vigo: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2002. ISBN 8481582115). Rosa is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo and the Editor of VIAL (Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics).

March 2000 [joint supervision with Chris B. McCully]: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, “Opacity and globality in phonological change” [European Doctorate]. Ricardo is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester.

May 2000: Mar Viña-Rouco, “A history of modern language teaching in Spain (1800-1936), with special reference to English”. Published on microfiche (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2000). María del Mar is a tenured lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus).

January 2001: Marina Pedreira-Vilariño, “The noun phrase: A comparative analysis of syntactic variation in news language”. Published on CD-Rom (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2001). Marina is now the Deputy Development Director at the Communications Office of the University of Sussex.

April 2001: Juan Carlos García-Lorenzo, “Complementation in John Lyly’s English”. Published as Complementation in Early Modern English: A study of John Lyly’s Euphues (The Edwin Mellen Press UK, 2004. ISBN 0773462732). Juan Carlos is a tenured high-school teacher in Lugo.

November 2001: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, “The progressive in the history of English, with special reference to the Early Modern English period”. Published with the same title in LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics (Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2004. ISBN 389586742X). Paloma is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

February 2004: Carmen Pena-Díaz, “Code alternation in a trilingual community [English /Spanish /Galician]: from pragmatics to grammar”. Published as Bilingual speech: A case study of a bilingual community (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006. ISBN 8481387061). Carmen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Alcalá de Henares.

February 2007: Ana López-Sánchez, “From 'ways of speaking' to 'ways of being in the world': A contrastive analysis of request behaviour in Peninsular Spanish and American English: A comparison”. Ana is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Haverford College, PA.

January 2008 [joint supervision with J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "Inversion in written and spoken Contemporary English" [European Doctorate]. Carlos works at the University of Santiago de Compostela on a postdoctoral contract from the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation (DXIDI) of the Autonomous Government of Galicia for the period 31 December 2008-31 December 2011.

3 December 2009 [joint supervision with J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]: Iria Pastor-Gómez, "Nominal modifiers in noun phrase structure: Evidence from Contemporary English." Iria works at the University of Santiago de Compostela as a research assistant to the VLCG project; as from September 2010 she will join the Galician School of Higher Studies in Hotel Management, where she recently obtained a permanent position as Lecturer in English. The School is attached to the University of Santiago de Compostela.

15 January 2010: Natalia Villar-Conde, "Aspects of expressive strength reduction in British English and Castilian Spanish: A corpus-based analysis".

Other PhD students I am currently supervising include Marta Duyos-Míguez, Emma Lezcano, Montserrat Nolasco and Vera Vázquez-López.