CASTRO-CHAO, NOELIA
Noelia Castro-Chao holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (September 2014), an MA in Advanced English Studies (September 2015) and a doctorate in English Linguistics (May 2020). Her PhD research was carried out at Santiago de Compostela under funding from a four-year postgraduate grant (ref. FPU 2014/03208; 28/10/2015 - 27/10/2019) from the Spanish Ministry of Education.
Noelia has worked as Invited Lecturer in English (March-May 2020) at the University of Vigo and as Research Associate (January-February 2021) at the VLCG unit, on a competitive contract (ref. 2020-PG019.01). She now holds a temporary position as Lecturer in English at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo.
As an ERASMUS exchange student (2012-2013) Noelia studied at the University of York, UK. As a postgraduate student and postdoc she has carried out research at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Edinburgh (September-November 2018; funding: MECD grant EST17/00514; advisor: Graeme Trousdale), and at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo (June-July 2020).
In November 2016 Noelia obtained the ‘Catalina Montes’ Award to the best paper presented by a PhD student at the 40th AEDEAN International Conference (University of Zaragoza at Huesca, 9-11 November 2016).
Contact information:
Department of English, French and German
Escola de Enxeñería Industrial
Universidade de Vigo
C/ Conde de Torrecedeira nº 86
36208 Vigo
E-mail:
MA Dissertation (September 2015):
Changes in argument structure: developments in impersonal constructions since Late Middle English. A preliminary corpus-based study. Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.
PhD Dissertation (12 May 2020): 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; grade: Cum Laude). Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (UVigo). Examiners: David Denison (University of Manchester), Belén Méndez-Naya (USC), Paula Rodríguez-Puente (University of Oviedo).
H-index & Publications:
(Forthcoming in 2021). "The development of long in Early Modern English: Impersonal verbs of Desire in focus". Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43(1).
(2021). "Constructions in competition: The development of the impersonal verb hunger and the adjectival periphrasis be hungry in Early Modern English". Studia Neophilologica 93(1), 24 pp. Published online: 12 Jan 2021; https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2020.1851297
(2021). Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire. (Linguistic Insights 274). Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-4189-9; 277 pp.
(2019). "Changes in argument structure in Early Modern English with special reference to verbs of Desire: A case study of lust". Research in Corpus Linguistics 7: 129-154.
(2018). “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of like and please”. In María Ferrández San Miguel & Claus-Peter Neumann, eds. Taking stock to look ahead: Celebrating forty years of English Studies in Spain. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 177-184.
(2016). "Changes in argument structure: The development of English impersonal constructions from 1350 onwards. A corpus-based study". Actas de las II Jornadas Doctorales de la Universidad de Murcia, 31 mayo-2 junio 2016. Murcia: Escuela Internacional de Doctorado. ISBN 978-84-608-9778-1. [Published online; 5 pages].
conference presentations:
24-26 November 2021: 44th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Cantabria: "Long, lust and thirst: On the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English"
31 August - 3 September 2021: SLE 2021 - 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea: "Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until"
18-21 August 2021: ICAME 42, Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany): "Minor complementisers in the temporal domain: English till and until" (full paper)
7-11 June 2021: ICEHL-21, University of Leiden: "The development of impersonal verbs in Early Modern English: A case study of hunger"
4 June 2021: IDAES Graduate Day 2021, University of Vigo: participation in the round table "PhD studies and academic career"
28-30 April 2021: XII International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2021), University of Murcia: "The development of English verbs of Desire: A case study of thirst"
14-16 April 2021: AESLA 2021 (International Conference of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics). University of A Coruña: "The development of the verb thirst in the history of English: A corpus-based study"
15 December 2020: invited speaker at the 25th ELC Research Seminar, Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo: “Pathways to English complement clauses: From adverbial subordination to complementation in object territory”
5 December 2020: Linguistweets. The First International Twitter Conference on Linguistics, Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN): "The demise of impersonal constructions"
6 November 2020: IDAES Graduate Day 2020, University of A Coruña: "From adverbial subordination to complementation: On minor complementisers in Early Modern English"
30 May - 3 June 2018: ICAME 39, University of Tampere (Finland): "Throwing some light on the development of impersonal constructions: A case study of lust (after)"
4 May 2018: IDAES Graduate Day 2018, University of Vigo: "The development of formerly impersonal verbs of desire in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study"
4-5 April 2017: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English, KU Leuven: “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of long (for)”
9-11 November 2016: 40th AEDEAN Conference, University of Zaragoza (Huesca): “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of like and please”
31 May - 2 June 2016: II Jornadas Doctorales de la Universidad de Murcia, University of Murcia: "The development of English impersonal constructions from 1350 onwards"
19 May 2016: IDAES Graduate Day 2016, University of Santiago de Compostela: "Changes in transitivization in the history of English: From impersonal to personal constructions"
15 May 2015: IDAES Graduate Day 2015, University of Vigo: "Changes in argument structure: Developments in impersonal constructions from Late Middle English onwards. A corpus-based study"
