Supervision and mentoring

- Postdoctoral fellows:

01 July 2021 - 15 December 2022: Noelia Castro-Chao. Funding institution: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade, Regional Government of Galicia. Grant no. ED481B2021-046.

23 November 2018 - 4 September 2019: Iván Tamaredo. Funding institutions: Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and European Social Fund. Grant no. BES-2015-071233.

25 October 2018 - 18 September 2019: Mario Serrano-Losada. Funding institution: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Regional Government of Galicia. Grant no. ED481B 2018/041.

October 2015 - September 2016: Raquel Vea. Funding institution: Programa 'Juan de la Cierva', Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Grant no. FJCI-2014-20302.

January 2009 - July 2012: Carlos Prado-Alonso. Funding institution: Programa 'Angeles Alvariño', Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion, Regional Government of Galicia. Grant no. AA.08-053.

- PhD dissertations supervised (completed):

(1) 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" [Extraordinary PhD Award]. 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 is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(2) October 1993: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña, “On so-called appositive structures in English” [Extraordinary PhD Award]. 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 Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(3) 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 Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela .

(4) 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 Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(5) 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 Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo.

(6) December 1996: María de los Ángeles Gómez-González, “A corpus-based approach to Theme in Present-day British English” [European Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award. Co-supervisor: Christopher S. Butler]. Published as The Theme-Topic interface: Evidence from English (Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. ISBN 9027250863). María de los Ángeles is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(7) 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 is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo.

(8) October 1999: Rosa Alonso, “Language transfer in interlanguage with special reference to adverbial placement” [co-supervisor: Ignacio Palacios]. 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.

(9) March 2000: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, “Opacity and globality in phonological change” [European Doctorate; Extraordinary PhD Award. Co-supervisor: Chris B. McCully]. Ricardo is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester.

(10) 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 was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus).

(11) 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 the Director of the Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Sussex.

(12) 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.

(13) 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.

(14) February 2004: Carmen Pena-Díaz, “Code alternation in a trilingual community: 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 Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcalá.

(15) 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 Associate Professor of Spanish at Haverford College, PA.

(16) January 2008: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "Inversion in written and spoken Contemporary English" [European Doctorate; co-supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]. Published as Full-verb inversion in written and spoken English (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. ISBN 978-3-0343-05-35-8). Carlos is a Senior Lecturer ('Titular de Universidad') in English Linguistics at the University of Oviedo.

(17) December 2009: Iria Pastor-Gómez, "Nominal modifiers in noun phrase structure: Evidence from Contemporary English" [co-supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]. Published as The status and development of N+N sequences in Contemporary English noun phrases (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-0343-0534-1). Iria holds a tenured position as Lecturer in English at the Centro Superior de Hostelería de Galicia, attached to the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(18) January 2010: Natalia Villar-Conde, "Aspects of expressive strength reduction in British English and Castilian Spanish: A corpus-based analysis". Natalia holds a permanent position as Senior Executive Editor at the University Press of Santiago de Compostela.

(19) June 2013: Vera Vázquez-López, "Action nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English" [co-supervisor: María José López-Couso].

(20) 17 December 2014: Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, "A semantic and syntactic approach to GET-constructions in World Englishes" [main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisors: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Elena Seoane].

(21) 23 May 2016: Lauren Fonteyn, “Categoriality in language change: The case of the English gerund”, KU Leuven [main supervisor and promotor: Liesbet Heyvaert; co-promotor: Hendrik De Smet; supervisory committee: Hubert Cuyckens and Teresa Fanego]. PhD thesis published with the same title by Oxford University Press (2019. ISBN: 9780190917579). Lauren is a Lecturer in English Linguistics at Leiden University.

(22) 6 October 2016: Beatriz Mato-Míguez, "The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between insubordinated if-clauses, imperatives and conditionals in Contemporary Spoken British and American English" [co-supervisor: María José López-Couso].

(23) 23 January 2018: Tamara Bouso, "Changes in argument structure in the history of English, with special reference to the emergence and development of reaction object constructions" [International Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award 2017-2018; co-supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya]. Published as Changes in argument structure. The transitivizing Reaction Object Construction (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4095-3). Tamara is a Senior Lecturer ('Profesora Titular') at the University of Santiago.

(24) 22 June 2018: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Evidential and mirative expressions in English and Spanish: Grammaticalization and discourse functions" [International Doctorate; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya]. Mario is an Associate Professor ('Profesor Permanente Laboral') in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(25) 15 November 2018: Iván Tamaredo, "Processing grammatical structures: complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world, with special reference to pronoun omission" [International Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award 2018-2019; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]. Published as Complexity, efficiency, and language contact: Pronoun omission in World Englishes (Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4066-3). Iván is an Associate Professor ('Profesor Permanente Laboral') in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(26) 12 May 2020: Noelia Castro-Chao, "Changes in argument structure: Impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire. A corpus-based study" [International Doctorate; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Vigo]. Published as Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4189-9). Noelia is a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(27) 22 October 2020: Cristina Lastres-López, “A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish: A corpus-based study” [International Doctorate; Extraordinary PhD Award 2020-2021]. Published as From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN 978-3-0343-4220-9). Cristina is a Senior Lecturer ('Profesora Titular') in English Linguistics at the Department of English Language of the University of Seville. 

- PhD dissertations (in progress):

Jorge Fernández-Avilés, "Facticity and stance in corporate discourse: An ecolinguistic approach" [main supervisor: María José López-Couso; co-supervisor: Teresa Fanego]. Jorge is an FPU researcher at the Department of English and German of the USC, working on a grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU21/05035; 15/12/2022 - 14/12/2026). 

Seamus Johnston, "Profiling the language of seventeenth-century Ireland: A corpus analysis of the 1641 Depositions" [co-supervisor: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez]. Seamus holds a BA in History and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin and an MA from the University of Birmingham; he is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at Reitaku University (Chiba, Japan).