Publications (1990-present)

Forthcoming in 2025. "The Go Ving network in twenty-first century English". In The progressive revisited: Studies on Germanic and Romance languages, ed. by Jerzy Norbert Nykiel & Alessandro Carlucci. (Studies in Language Companion Series), Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Forthcoming in 2025. "Tense, aspect and modality in the history of English". In The New Cambridge History of the English Language (General Editor: Raymond Hickey), Volume III: Change, transmission and ideology, ed. by Joan C. Beal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming in 2024. "The English language of seventeenth-century Ireland: A corpus analysis of the 1641 Depositions". In Crossing Boundaries: Transatlantic Dialogues and Gendered Narratives. Selected Papers from the 46th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), ed. by Francisco J. Alonso Almeida & Carmen I. Luján García. (Colección Congresos y Homenajes). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. [With Seamus Johnston & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez.]

2024. "English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal." Language Sciences 101 (January): 1-19. [Available in Open Access]

2024.  "Don’t go getting into trouble again!: The emergence and diachrony of the English Go VPing construction." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25(1): 33-66. Published online in OA: 15 April 2021.

2023. "Tomorrow I'll go (a) shopping: On the history of the Expeditionary Go construction and its relation to the absentive." Folia Linguistica Historica 44(1): 1-40.

2020. "Developing and exploiting the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR)". Nexus AEDEAN 2020(2): 39-43. [With Paula Rodríguez-Puente.]

2020. Review of Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ed. by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda Van Bergen & Willem B. Hollmann (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Research in Corpus Linguistics 8(2): 159-175.

2020. "On the history of the English progressive construction Jane came whistling down the street". Journal of English Linguistics 48(4): 319-354. [Available in Open Access] 

2019. Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 91). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. viii + 294 pp. ISBN 978 9027202352. [First editor, with Paula Rodríguez-Puente]. This volume has been honoured with the 2021 Book Award of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Reviewed by:
1. Zhiying Xin & Jiawei Wang, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 26/1 (2019): 127-132 
2. Marijana Javornik Čubrić, LINGUIST List, issue 30.4177 (Nov 05 2019)
3. Zhengrui Han, Discourse Studies 22/2 (2020): 243-245
4. Christopher Williams, Research in Corpus Linguistics 8/1 (2020): 178-194
5. Virginia Mattioli, Miscelánea. A Journal of English and American Studies 63 (2021): 179-184
6. Shuqiong Wu, Discourse & Society 32/2 (2021): 254-263
7. Haoda Feng, Applied Linguistics 43/4 (2022): 833-835

2019. "'Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?' English legal discourse past and present". In Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse, ed. by Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodríguez-Puente. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 1-21. [First author, with Paula Rodríguez-Puente.]

2019. "A construction of independent means: The history of the Way construction revisited". English Language and Linguistics 23(3): 671-699.  [Available in Open Access]

2018. Rodríguez-Puente, Paula / Teresa Fanego / María José López-Couso / Belén Méndez-Naya / Paloma Núñez-Pertejo / Cristina Blanco-García / Iván Tamaredo. Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 (CHELAR), v.2. Santiago de Compostela: Research Unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, University of Santiago de Compostela. ISBN: 978-84-09-07633-8. <http://www.usc-vlcg.es/CHELARv2.html>

2017. "The trolley rumbled through the tunnel: On the history of the English Intransitive Motion Construction". Folia Linguistica Historica 38: 29-73. [pdf]

2017. "The Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR): A resource for analysing the development of English legal discourse." ICAME Journal 41: 53-82. [First author, with Paula Rodríguez-Puente, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Cristina Blanco-García & Iván Tamaredo.]

2016. "The Great Complement Shift revisited: The constructionalization of ACC-ing gerundives". Functions of Language 23(1): 84-119. [preprint]

2016. Rodríguez-Puente, Paula / Teresa Fanego / María José López-Couso / Belén Méndez-Naya / Paloma Núñez-Pertejo. Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR), v.1. Santiago de Compostela: Research Unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, University of Santiago de Compostela. ISBN: 978-84-608-8006-6. <http://www.usc-vlcg.es/CHELAR.htm>

2016. "Pronoun omission and agreement: An analysis based on ICE Singapore and ICE India." ICAME Journal 40: 95-118. [Second author, with Iván Tamaredo.] [link to published version]

2016. "Shakespeare’s grammar". In The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, Volume 1: Shakespeare's World 1500-1660. Editor: Bruce R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 26, pp. 184-191. [pdf]

2015. "Multiple sources in language change: The role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of English ACC-ing gerundives". In Perspectives on complementation: Structure, variation and boundaries, ed. by Mikko Höglund, Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko & Jukka Havu. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-205. [pdf]

2015. Pragmática. (Colección Unidadesdidácticas; Servizo de Normalización Lingüística). Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. ISBN 978-84-16533-39-8. [Second author, with Mario Serrano-Losada.]

2014. Editor [with Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Evelyn Gandón-Chapela, Sara Riveiro-Outeiral & Mª Luisa Roca-Varela]. Current research in Applied Linguistics: Issues on language and cognition. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. ix + 301.

2014. "Dictionary-based corpus linguistics and beyond: Developments in the expression of motion events in the history of English". In Diachrony and synchrony in English corpus linguistics, ed. by Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes & Salvador Valera-Hernández. (Linguistic Insights Series 181). Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 55-83.

2013. "In memoriam Dieter Kastovsky: Dieter, the historical linguist". Folia Linguistica 47(2): 595-602. [offprint]

2013. "In memoriam Dieter Kastovsky". The European English Messenger (Official Bulletin of the European Society for the Study of English) 22(1): 8-9. [pdf of final version]

2012. "COLMOBAENG: A Corpus of Late Modern British and American English Prose". In Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain, ed. by Nila Vázquez. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 101-117. [http://www.usc-teresafanego.es/COLMOBAENG_MANUAL.pdf]

2012. "Preface". In Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain, ed. by Nila Vázquez. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. ix-x. [pdf of final version]

2012. "Motion events in English: The emergence and diachrony of manner salience from Old English to Late Modern English". Folia Linguistica Historica 33: 29-85. [pdf of published version]

2012. "In memoriam Anna Siewierska". AEDEAN Nexus (Official Bulletin of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies) 2012(1): 156-162. [pdf of final version]

2012. "Preface". In The handbook of historical sociolinguistics, ed. by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy & Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). Oxford & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. xxxi-xxxiv. [scanned pdf]

2012. "History of English historical linguistics: Southern Europe". In English Historical Linguistics: An international Handbook, Volume II, ed. by Alexander Bergs & Laurel J. Brinton. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] 34.2). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1397-1414.

2010. "Paths in the development of elaborative discourse markers: Evidence from Spanish". In Subjectification, intersubjectification, and grammaticalization, ed. by Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens. (Topics in English Linguistics 66). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 197-237. [pdf of final version]

2010. “Variation in sentential complements in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English: A processing-based explanation”. In Eighteenth-century English: Ideology and change, ed. by Raymond Hickey. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-220. [abstract]

2010. "El proyecto 'Variación, cambio lingüístico y gramaticalización': objetivos y líneas metodológicas". In Actas del XXXIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL), 1-4 Febrero, 2010 , ed. by Pablo Cano López, Soraya Cortiñas Ansoar, Beatriz Dieste Quiroga, Isabel Fernández López & Luz Zas Varela. Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. [First author, with María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Elena Seoane & Carlos Prado-Alonso]. [pdf of published version]

2008. Collaborator. Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives. (Typological Studies in Language 76). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins [Editors in Chief: María José López-Couso & Elena Seoane]. Reviewed by: Heiko Narrog, Linguist List, issue 20.2282 (June 24 2009); Chad Howe, Studies in Language 34.1 (2010): 195-204; Ilse Wischer, Folia Linguistica 44.2 (2010): 555-568; Carolin Patzelt, eLanguage (December 2010).

2008. Collaborator. Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization. (Typological Studies in Language 77). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins [Editors in Chief: Elena Seoane & María José López-Couso]. Reviewed by: Heiko Narrog, Linguist List, issue 20.2282 (June 24 2009); Ilse Wischer, Folia Linguistica 44.2 (2010): 555-568; Chad Howe, Studies in Language 35.1 (2011): 228-237.

2007. "Drift and the development of sentential complements in British and American English from 1700 to the present day". In 'Of varying language and opposing creed': New insights into Late Modern English, ed. by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso & Esperanza Rama-Martínez. (Linguistic Insights 28). Bern: Peter Lang, 161-235. [pdf of published version]

2007. Compiler. A Corpus of Late Modern British and American English Prose (COLMOBAENG). University of Santiago de Compostela: Research Unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, Department of English and German. ISBN 978-84-608-7691-5. <http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/COLMOBAENG/index.html>

2006-2013, Editor-in-chief. Folia Linguistica. Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae, Volumes 40 (2006): 1- 423; 41 (2007): 1- 493; 42 (2008): 1-498; 43 (2009): 1-514.; 44 (2010): 1-583; 45 (2011): 1-558; 46 (2012): 1-644; 47.1 (2013): 1-321.

2006. "Report on the 38th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Valencia, 7-10 September 2005)". Folia Linguistica 40(3/4): 409-411. [pdf of final version]

2006. "The role of language standardization in the loss of hybrid gerunds in Modern English". In 'These things write I vnto thee...': Essays in honour of Bjorg Bækken, ed. by Leiv Egil Breivik, Sandra Halverson & Kari Haugland. Oslo: Novus Press, pp. 93-110. [pdf of published version]

2006. "Causality in language change”. In Marta Carretero et al. eds. A pleasure of life in words. A Festschrift for Angela Downing. Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 137-154.

2006. Review of Bettelou Los, The rise of the to-infinitive (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Journal of Linguistics 42(1): 211-216. [pdf of published version]

2005. "'Fare thee well, dame'. Shakespeare's forms of address and their socio-affective role". SEDERI Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 15: 23-42. [pdf of published version]

2004. "Is Cognitive Grammar a usage-based model? Towards a realistic account of English sentential complements", Miscelánea. A Journal of English and American Studies 29: 23-58. Special Issue on Language and Linguistics containing the plenary lectures from ESSE7 (Seventh International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English), University of Zaragoza, 8-12 September 2004. [pdf of published version]

2004. "Some strategies for coding sentential subjects in English: from exaptation to grammaticalization”. Studies in Language 28(2): 321-361. [pdf of published version]

2004. "On reanalysis and actualization in syntactic change: the rise and development of English verbal gerunds". Diachronica 21(1): 5-55. [pdf of published version]

2003. Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 82 (2001). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-114. [Joint chapter, with Camilla Vasquez, Jeroen van de Weijer, Bettelou Los, Wim van der Wurff, Bèata Gyuris, Julie Coleman, Paul Cullen, Lieselotte Anderwald, Andrea Sand, Petra Bettig & Clara Calvo].

2002. Editor [with María José López-Couso & Javier Pérez-Guerra]. English historical syntax and morphology. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 223).  Amsterdam &  Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed in English Language and Linguistics 8/2 (2004): 355-360 by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg; Language 80/1 (2004): 172-173 by Alexander Bergs; Studies in Language 29/1 (2005): 207-220 by Pius ten Hacken; The Linguist List February 6 2003 (Issue 14.380) by Miguel Ayerbe; The Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2002): 7ff.

2002. "Introduction". In English historical syntax and morphology, ed. by Teresa Fanego et al., pp.1-8. [scanned pdf]

2002. Editor [with Belén Méndez-Naya & Elena Seoane]. Sounds, words, texts and change. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224).  Amsterdam &  Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Reviewed in English Language and Linguistics 8/2 (2004): 355-360 by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg; Language 80/1 (2004): 173-174 by Alexander Bergs; The Linguist List  January 27 2004 (Issue 15.300) by Anthony Grant; The Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2002): 7ff.

2002. "Introduction". In Sounds, words, texts and change, ed. by Teresa Fanego et al., pp. 1-9. [scanned pdf]

2002. Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 81 (2000).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-131. [Joint chapter, with Camilla Vasquez, Jeroen van de Weijer, Bettelou Los, Wim van der Wurff, Bèata Gyuris, Julie Coleman, Paul Cullen, Lieselotte Anderwald, Andrea Sand, Petra Bettig & Clara Calvo].

2001. Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 80 (1999).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-123. [Joint chapter, with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Jeroen van de Weijer, Marga van Gent, Wim van der Wurff, Julie Coleman, Carole Hough, Andrea Sand, Sabine Prechter & Clara Calvo].

2000. Chapter on "English Language". In The Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 79 (1998).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-130. [Joint chapter, with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Jeroen van de Weijer, Marga van Gent, Wim van der Wurff, Julie Coleman, Carole Hough, Andrea Sand, Sabine Prechter & Clara Calvo].

1998. "Developments in argument linking in early Modern English gerund phrases". English Language and Linguistics 2: 87-119. [pdf of final version]

1997. "On patterns of complementation with verbs of effort". English Studies 78: 60-67. [scanned pdf]

1997. "English in transition 1500-1700: On variation in second person singular pronoun usage". SEDERI Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 7: 5-15. [pdf of published version]

1997. Review of N.F. Blake, A history of the English language (London & Basingstoke: MacMillan 1996). European Journal of English Studies 1: 245-247. [scanned pdf]

1996. "The development of gerunds as objects of subject-control verbs in English (1400-1760)". Diachronica 13: 29-62. [scanned pdf]

1996. "On the historical development of English retrospective verbs". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 97: 71-79. [scanned pdf]

1996. "English remember and Role and Reference grammar: On Van Valin & Wilkins (1993)". Lingua 99: 1-10. [scanned pdf]

1996. "The gerund in Early Modern English: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus". Folia Linguistica Historica 17: 97-152. [scanned pdf]

1994. "Infinitive marking in Early Modern English". In Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22-25 September 1992, ed. by Francisco Fernández et al. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 191-203. [scanned pdf]

1994. "English historical syntax: approaches and problems". In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference of the Spanish Society for English Language and Literature (AEDEAN), Valladolid, 14-16 de diciembre de 1992, ed. by José M. Ruiz, Pilar Abad & José M. Barrio.  Universidad de Valladolid: Servicio de Publicaciones, 13-28. [scanned pdf]

1993. Edition and Preface. Papers from the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, Santiago 24-27 September 1991.  Universidad de Santiago: Servicio de Publicaciones. Pp. 336. ISBN 84-7191-987-7.

1992. Infinitive complements in Shakespeare’s English. Synchronic and diachronic aspects.  Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 170 pp.  ISBN 84-7191-894-3. Reviewed: The Year's Work in English Studies 73 (1992): 60-61. [scanned pdf]

1991. "On the origin and history of the English syntactic type (and) none but he to marry with Nan Page". English Studies 72: 513-519. [scanned pdf]

1990. "Finite complement clauses in Shakespeare's English, Part 2". Studia Neophilologica 62/2: 129-149. [scanned pdf]

1990. "Finite complement clauses in Shakespeare's English, Part 1". Studia Neophilologica 62/1: 3-21. [scanned pdf]