Publications (1990-present)

Submitted. "The Go -ing network in twenty-first century English". In The progressive revisited: Studies on Germanic and Romance languages (Studies in Language Companion Series). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Forthcoming. "The English language of seventeenth-century Ireland: A corpus analysis of the 1641 Depositions". In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN), ed. by Carmen Luján et al. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. [With Seamus Johnston & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez.]

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.

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]