CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS BY VLCG MEMBERS

6-8 November 2024: 47th AEDEAN Conference, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville:

• Noelia Castro-Chao & Tamara Bouso: "ESP, Collaborative Learning, and Communication Technologies: Insights from Chemical Engineering and English Language and Literature Students"
• Cristina Lastres-López: "Morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation in if/si-constructions: A corpus-based analysis of English and Spanish newspaper discourse"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Clausal complementation with impersonal look: Complementizer variation in focus"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "Superangelical and supercool: Intensifying super- in the history of English"
• Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "A case study on the use of social media as resources for English language learning and research"

24-25 October 2024: Invited presentation at the Workshop "Insubordination in Interaction" , Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland): Cristina Lastres-López, "Functional differences in if/si-insubordination: Exploring the cline from subordination to insubordination in English and Spanish".

23-25 October 2024: 4th International Conference EnTRetextos, University of Valencia: Tamara Bouso, "On the role of horizontal interactions in the creativity and entrenchment of marginal constructions".

10-11 October 2024: Términos de vaguedad. Orígenes, usos, contrastes, Université Paris Cité: Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, "'Y entonces es en plan... yo qué sé... mola y tal': Los términos de vaguedad en un estudio de tiempo aparente".

2-4 October 2024: 8th International Conference on Late Modern English, University of Salamanca:

• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "The scent of change: Unveiling the impact of the industrial revolution on olfactory language".
• Mario Serrano-Losada: “So he wound up there, and thought he'd make a new start: On the rise and development of mirative wind up"

26-28 September 2024: 10th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), University of Alicante:

• Jorge Fernández-Avilés: "(De)Constructing trust in Corporate Social Responsibility reports: An ecolinguistic analysis of attitudinal stance"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Study finds, experts warn: Conveying evidentiality in Contemporary American English"

21-24 August 2024: 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki: Teresa Fanego, Seamus Johnston & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "The genesis of Irish English habitual Do: An analysis of the 1641 Depositions".

17-19 July 2024: 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (CADS2024), University of Innsbruck (Austria): Carlos Prado-Alonso, "The Use of Adjective Phrase Inversion in Learned and Scientific Exposition".  

16-17 July 2024: 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference, University of Cambridge: Cristina Lastres-López, "Conditionals in English and Spanish: Exploring differences in speech and writing".

9 July 2024: Dialectology (LING 160F), Department of Comparative Literatures and Languages, University of California Riverside (USA): Tamara Bouso, "Reviving Galician from abroad" [invited lecture online].

3 July 2024: Department of English and American Studies, within the Research Training Group "Dimensions of Constructional Space", Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): Tamara Bouso, "A Construction Grammar approach to marginal constructions: Converging evidence on the family of English Objoid Constructions" [invited lecture].

26-28 June 2024: 6th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP6), University of Vigo: Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt & Laetitia Van Driesche, "A structural priming approach to links among English Objoid Constructions".

18-22 June 2024: 45th ICAME Conference, University of Vigo:

• Seamus Johnston, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Teresa Fanego: "Tracking Irish English habitual Do: Do as a marker of habitual aspect in the 1641 Depositions"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Emerging evidential parentheticals in Contemporary American English: Exploring COCA"

22-24 May 2024: 15th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2024), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria:

• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Change in motion: On the rise and development of mirative wind up"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Allostructions along the Dynamic Model: Lexical specificity in the variable expression of pronominal subjects"

15-17 May 2024: AFLiCo 9 - "Embodied and Ecolinguistics Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics", Lyon (France): Jorge Fernández-Avilés, "Stance and legitimation in corporate responsibility reports: A corpus-based ecolinguistic approach".

8 May 2024: Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages, University of the Balearic Islands: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "British and Spanish Youth Talk in Focus: A Contrastive Overview" [invited lecture].

23-24 April 2024: III Congreso Internacional Innovación Docente, Educación y Transferencia del Conocimiento (CIINECO), Rey Juan Carlos University:

• Cristina Blanco-García & Marta Martín-Gilete: "Enhancing Higher Education through micro-credential training: A focus on BA dissertations"
• Noelia Castro-Chao & Tamara Bouso: "La enseñanza del inglés a través de actividades colaborativas mediadas por TIC: La perspectiva del alumnado de los Grados en Ingeniería Química y Lengua y Literatura Inglesas"

12 April 2024: Introduction to Linguistics, Lake Forest College, Illinois (USA): Tamara Bouso, "A conversation on constructional contamination and its application to the ROC" [invited lecture, online].

22 February 2024: LINGUISTICS 131: Morphology, Department of Comparative Literatures and Languages, University of California Riverside (USA): Tamara Bouso, "Eliciting Galician: Fostering knowledge of the Galician language abroad" [invited lecture online].

18 January 2024: Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan): Mario Serrano-Losada, "Change in progress: Exploring the emergence of evidential and mirative strategies in the history of English" [invited lecture].

15 January 2024: Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), University of Santiago de Compostela: Tamara Bouso, "A construction grammar approach to marginal syntax" [invited lecture].

6 December 2023: EMI (English Medium Instruction) Symposium 2023, University of Oxford: Cristina Lastres-López, "English Medium Instruction or English for Specific Purposes? A view from Spanish universities, with a focus on the degree in Tourism" .

29 November-1 December 2023: XXIV Congreso Internacional SEDLL, University of Santiago de Compostela: Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez Pertejo, "El aprendizaje y la investigación lingüística a través de las redes sociales: un estudio piloto con alumnado del grado en Estudios Ingleses".

27 November - 2 December 2023: V Congreso Internacional de Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación Superior: Cambios en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Áreas del Conocimiento, Sevilla: Cristina Lastres-López, "El desarrollo de competencias profesionales en la enseñanza universitaria: Estudio piloto en una asignatura de inglés turístico".

8-10 November 2023: 46th AEDEAN Conference, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Seamus Johnston, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Teresa Fanego, "The English Language of Seventeenth-Century Ireland: A Corpus Analysis of the 1641 Depositions ".

6-8 November 2023: IV Congreso Internacional de Lenguas 2023-B, Centro Universitario UAEM Texcoco: Jorge Fernández-Avilés, “A corpus-based Analysis of Stance in corporate discourse from an ecolinguistic perspective: A pilot study”

23-25 October 2023: El papel de las universidades en los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible: innovación docente y experiencias significativas, Complutense University of Madrid: Inés de la villa Vencilla, Daniela Pettersson-Traba & Mario Serrano-Losada, "Open Woodclap and learn: El uso de plataformas digitales para fomentar el aprendizaje activo en el aula universitaria" [poster].

16-17 October 2023: International Congress in Serious Games & Emotional Competence in Higher Education 2023, University of Minho (Portugal): Fátima Faya-Cerqueiro, "Review quizzes vs. gamified review quizzes: Some similarities and differences".

9 October 2023: II Xornada sobre Variación e Cambio Lingüístico, University of Santiago de Compostela & Instituto da Lingua Galega: Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "Novas prácticas lingüísticas dos falantes urbanos xoves de Londres e Madrid. Un estudo contrastivo baseado en corpus".

29 August-1 September 2023: 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece): Teresa Fanego, "On the history of the English construction type Tomorrow I’ll go shopping and its relation to the absentive".

7-11 August 2023: 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, HHU Düsseldorf (Germany): Tamara Bouso & Marianne Hundt, "We tried our best to do so: Modelling the Superlative Objoid Construction in Late Modern American English".

9-14 July 2023: 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC18), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium): Cristina Lastres-López, "Subordination and insubordination in if/si constructions: Evidence from spoken and written English and Spanish" [paper within the workshop Clause combining at the discourse-grammar interface: Answers from coordination, subordination and insubordination, convened by Liesbeth Degand, Víctor Royo Viñuales, An Van linden & Wout Van Praet).

3-6 July 2023: ICEHL-22, University of Sheffield (UK):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Ridiculously cute and absurdly sexy: On the rise of intensifying ridiculously and absurdly"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Clausal parentheticals as evidential markers in the recent history of English: 'Study shows, experts say'"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "Orrm's intensification devices: Innovative or idiosyncratic?"

29-30 June 2023: IX Jornadas de Formación e Innovación Docente FIDOP 2023, Universidad de Sevilla: Cristina Lastres-López, "Aprender a hablar en público: Estudio de caso en una asignatura de inglés para fines turísticos".

19-21 May 2023: 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG12), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic): Tamara Bouso, "Modelling the SOC in Contemporary American English".

10-12 May 2023: 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics - CILC 2023, University of Oviedo:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "From speaking madly to being madly curious: On the history of intensifying madly"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Enlarging the inventory of evidential expressions in English: A look from COHA and COCA"
• Teresa Fanego: "Tomorrow I’ll go jogging: A corpus-based analysis of the history of the English absentive construction" [invited lecture]
• Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "The role of age in the use of emoji and emoticons in Twitter discourse"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: "'And there they are er I don’t know er for example': How do EFL students use example markers?"
• Iván Tamaredo: "A variationist approach to subject omission: Null and overt subjects in eight varieties of English"
• Round table De la teoría a los datos y de los datos a la teoría: Aplicaciones estadísticas en lingüística de corpus. Convenor: Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo); participants: Pascual Cantos (University of Murcia), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo), Daniela Pettersson-Traba (Complutense University of Madrid), Yolanda Fernández-Pena (University of Vigo), Iván Tamaredo (Complutense University of Madrid)

27 April 2023: Linguistics Program, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California Riverside: Tamara Bouso, "The sociolinguistics of Galician" [invited lecture (online)].

26-28 April 2023: 40 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), University of Extremadura: Noelia Castro-Chao, "La implementación del aprendizaje colaborativo mediado por TIC en Inglés Técnico: la percepción de estudiantes de ingeniería química".

20-21 April 2023: II Congreso Internacional Innovación Docente, Educación y Transferencia del Conocimiento (CIINECO), King Juan Carlos University (online): Tamara Bouso, "Assessing Task-Based Language Teaching in Higher Education: A pilot interdisciplinary study on students' competence development" [first author, with Ítalo Raúl Abraham Arbulu Villanueva].

17-18 February 2023: Plenary lecture at the Symposium: Historical English Word-Formation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany): Paula Rodríguez-Puente, "Register as a predictor for the use of phrasal verbs: A diachronic approach".

19-20 January 2023: Workshop Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Cognitive and Empirical Developments, University of Vigo:

• Tamara Bouso: "She tried her damnedest to provide a usage-based characterisation of the SOC in contemporary American English" [invited lecture]
• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Modelling linguistic loss: A case study from the domain of clausal complementation" [invited lecture]

23-25 November 2022: Fátima Faya-Cerqueiro, "Cooperative writing in argumentative essays: a pilot study with EFL university learners", XXIII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, University of Oviedo.

23 November 2022: Ignition Seminar in Honors, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California Riverside (USA): Tamara Bouso, "Constructional contamination in English syntax, with special reference to the ROC" [invited lecture (online)].

16-18 November 2022: 45th AEDEAN Conference, University of Extremadura (Cáceres):

• Tamara Bouso & Pablo Ruano: "Promising her return, she mumbled her adoration: Attitudinal discourse presentation structures in the British sentimental novel"
• Jorge Fernández-Avilés: "Exploring stance constructions in the Coronavirus Corpus: An ecolinguistic approach"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "On evidential parentheticals in Contemporary American English"
• Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "The expression of (im)politeness in the language of teenagers: The courtesy marker please, taboo vocatives and swear words as three cases in point"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "On the interconnection between language and society: Exploring the role of extralinguistic factors in semantic change"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: “'But, plot twist, he's not single!'”: on the rise of parenthetical plot twist in recent English"
• Mario Serrano-Losada & Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Mirative extensions in discourse-pragmatic markers: a crosslinguistic study of finally and in the end in the EuroParl Parallel Corpus"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Null subjects on the web: An exploratory study using GloWbE"

27-30 July 2022: ICAME 43, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK):

• Tamara Bouso-Rivas: "While the Beacon-fire blazed its brightest, the two women shrieked their loudest: On the Superlative Object Construction (SOC)"
• Mario Serrano-Losada & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Stating the obvious: Assumed evidential parentheticals with verba dicendi in contemporary Englishes"

7-8 July 2022: Plenary lecture at the III AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar, University of Cantabria (Santander): Paula Rodríguez-Puente, "La carrera del Personal Docente e Investigador (PDI): el sistema español de plazas y acreditaciones".

26-28 May 2022: 13th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics - CILC2022, University of Bergamo (Italy):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Ridiculously cute or madly impressive: Some diachronic notes on the intensifying adverbs ridiculously and madly"
• Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "The role of the age factor in English Twitter discourse"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente & David Hernández-Coalla: "The Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions: A new tool for analyzing recent changes in legal language"

19-20 May 2022: IDAES GRADUATE DAY 2022, University of Santiago de Compostela: Jorge Fernández-Avilés, "An ecolinguistic approach to the analysis of stance and facticity in Corporate Discourse".

27-29 April 2022: AESLA 2022 (International Conference of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria:

• Yolanda Fernández-Pena: "Exploring the impact of CLIL+, CLIL- and non-CLIL programmes on the L2 English morphosyntac of Primary School teachers"
• Mario Serrano-Losada & Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Exploring mirativity: A cross-linguistic approach to English, Spanish and Swedish discours-pragmatic finally-type adverbials"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Operationalizing lexical specificity: A comparison of collostructional and regression modelling methods"

5-11 April 2022:  IV Jornades d'Experiènces Docents, University of the Balearic Islands: Tamara Bouso-Rivas, “Consolidación del aprendizaje del inglés como lengua instrumental a través de un proyecto de innovación educativa interdisciplinar” [first author, with Ítalo Raúl Abraham Arbulu Villanueva & Iria María Bello Viruega].

5-8 April 2022: L Simposio & IV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Madrid: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Un paradigma en potencia: los verbos de elevación evidenciales y admirativos en la historia del inglés" [paper within the monographic session La lingüística cognitiva y sus aplicaciones].

11 March 2022: Invited lecture at the IX Advanced Research Seminar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: María José López-Couso, "On the relation between ontogeny and diachrony: Exploring parallel developmental pathways through corpus data".

26 January 2022: Invited presentation at The Survey of English Usage Seminar Series, University College London: Cristina Lastres-López, "Subordination and insubordination: A corpus-based approach to if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish".  

24-25 January 2022: English on the move: discourse and cognitive-functional approaches to linguistic variation (UPCEL 2022), Universidad Complutense de Madrid:

• Idoya Cancelas-León: "Examining first-person epistemic parentheticals across varieties of English: the case of I believe, I guess and I suppose in Hong Kong English and British English"
• Teresa Fanego: "Typology and drift: Motion and progressive constructions, and the English shift from bounded to unbounded discourse" [plenary lecture]
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Changes in the prototypicality of competing forms: A diachronic collocational analysis"

20-21 January 2022: VIII Jornadas de Formación e Innovación Docente FIDOP 2022, Universidad de Sevilla: Cristina Lastres-López, "La construcción del discurso persuasivo en inglés: Propuesta de innovación docente centrada en el estudiante en la asignatura Comunicación y Discurso en Lengua Inglesa".

5 December 2021: 2nd International Twitter Conference on Linguistics - Linguistweets, Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN): Tamara Bouso, "Constructional contamination meets the ROC".

24-26 November 2021: 44th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Cantabria:

• Tamara Bouso: "Some thoughts on what corpus data reveals about the ROC-DDC alternation: The English ROC as a case of constructional contamination"
• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Long, lust and thirst: On the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "A diachronic DCA analysis of the concept PLEASANT SMELLING in American English: Shared tendencies and idiosyncratic patterns"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: "Up and down the cline of impersonality or linguistic informalisation? The verb like (likey) in focus"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "From conclusion to surprise: crosslinguistic evidence for the development of mirative meaning "
• Iván Tamaredo: "Schematicity versus concreteness in constructional representations: Lexical specificity across varieties of English"

24-26 November: XXII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Cuenca, CEPLI - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha: Fátima Faya-Cerqueiro, "La cortesía lingüística a través del álbum ilustrado: análisis de Mr Panda".

15-20 November 2021: III Congreso Internacional de Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación Superior: Cambios en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Áreas del Conocimiento, Madrid: Cristina Lastres-López, "La focalización de la información en el discurso en inglés: Propuesta de enseñanza universitaria basada en actividades de contraste".

11-13 November 2021: III Congreso Internacional "Escritura y lectura en la educación superior: prácticas sociales de formación profesional y desarrollo humano" (III ALES 2021), Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brasil): Tamara Bouso, "Satisfacción y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios a través del enfoque por tareas (TBLT): Resultados preliminares de un proyecto de innovación docente interdisciplinar" [first author, with Ítalo Raúl Abraham Arbulu Villanueva & Iria María Bello Viruega].

4 November 2021: Invited lecture at the IX Sesión de Bienvenida del Programa en Lingüística Inglesa UCM, Complutense University of Madrid: Mario Serrano-Losada, "The (not so) long and winding road: Navigating a PhD in (English) Linguistics".

24 September 2021: Workshop The Development of Progressive Constructions in Germanic and Romance Languages: Open Questions and Current Research, University of Bergen (Norway): Teresa Fanego, "English progressive(s) and the typological shift from bounded to unbounded discourse" [Invited presentation].

17 September: Jornada Internacional de Lengua, emoción e identidad, Universidad de Alcalá: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro, Gema Alcaraz Mármol, Mª Victoria Guadamillas & Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, "Aproximación a las emociones en L2: un estudio de corpus de percepciones del alumnado". [Poster]

30 August - 3 September 2021: SLE 2021 - 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea: Noelia Castro-Chao, "Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until"

18-21 August 2021: ICAME 42, Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany):

• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Minor complementisers in the temporal domain: The case of English till and until" (full paper)
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Suffix competition across registers: On the development of -ity and -ness in the Late Modern English period" (full paper)

18-20 August 2021: 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11), University of Antwerp: Tamara Bouso-Rivas, "The English Reaction Object Construction and its alternations: A case of constructional contamination in English syntax".

6 August 2021: Invited presentations on their experiences as journal editors by Paula Rodríguez-Puente and George Walkden (University of Konstanz), at the seminar Publishing in International Journals of Linguistics. Organiser: Ayumi Miura (Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture). 

3 August 2021: Invited presentation at the Institut de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland): Tamara Bouso-Rivas, "Where does diversity come from? Horizontal interaction in the network of the Late Modern English ROC".

13-16 July 2021: Corpus Linguistics 2021, University of Limerick (Ireland): Paula Rodríguez-Puente & María Obaya Cueli, "Phrasal verbs in EModE spoken language: A colloquialization conspiracy?"

1-2 July 2021: II AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar, University of Alicante: Idoya Cancelas-León, "First-person epistemic parentheticals in World Englishes: A cross-varietal comparison".

23 June 2021: Invited lecture (online) at the Research Seminar in English Linguistics, University of Augsburg (Germany): Belén Méndez-Naya, "Some thoughts on nominal intensification: right and proper as a case in point".

17-18 June 2021: New voices in English studies. ASYRAS VII Conference:

• Idoya Cancelas-León: "Comment clauses in World Englishes: A pilot study of I believe, I guess and I suppose in Hong Kong English". 
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Synonyms and the company they keep: On the influence of abstract and specific co-occurrence patterns on lexical choice"

10-11 June 2021: VII Xornada Universitaria Galega en Xénero (XUGeX): Fátima Faya Cerqueiro, "Mediación lingüística e perspectiva de xénero para a aula de lingua estranxeira"

7-11 June 2021: ICEHL-21, University of Leiden (The Netherlands):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Ridiculously gorgeous: On the history of the intensifier ridiculously"
• Tamara Bouso: "Laughing impertinence and smiling sweetness: On the influence of the British sentimental novel on the development of the reaction object construction"
• Noelia Castro-Chao: "The development of impersonal verbs in Early Modern English: A case study of hunger"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Converging and/or differential patterns of change across the Atlantic? A look into epistemic adverbs of doubt in the recent history of British and American English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Is legal discourse really 'outside the ravages of time'? A diachronic analysis of nominalizations in British law reports"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Competing forms, or the downfall of a mirative verb"

2-5 June 2021: ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland: Tanja Säily, Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Jukka Suomela: "New methods for analysing suffix competition across registers: How -ity gained ground on -ness in Early Modern English"

4 June 2021: IDAES Graduate Day 2021, University of Vigo:

• Round table Carreira pre- e posdoutoral en Estudos Ingleses. Convenor: Javier Pérez Guerra (UVigo); participants: Juan Ignacio Oliva (University of La Laguna), Noelia Castro-Chao (UVigo), Vanesa Vázquez Novo (University of A Coruña)
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "The concept PLEASANT SMELLING in the history of English: Main findings and ways forward"

27-28 May 2021: Research in Anglo-American Literature, Culture and Linguistics: Conference for Postgraduate and Early-Career Scholars, University of Valladolid: Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Tracing changes in the meaning of near-synonyms through collocational analysis"

26-28 May 2021: International Conference on Youth Languages (ICYL2021), Manchester Metropolitan University: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "Pragmatic reversal in the expression of (im)politeness in the language of (London) teenagers" [with Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez]

28-30 April 2021: XII International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2021), University of Murcia:

• Noelia Castro-Chao, "The development of English verbs of Desire: A case study of thirst"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Competing epistemic adverbs: On the variation between probably, perhaps, and maybe in present-day British and American English"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "New linguistic practices of urban youths in London and Madrid. A contrastive corpus-based study" [with Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez]
  
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Collocational preferences at different levels of granularity: Near-synonyms from the domain of SMELL as a case in point"
• Mario Serrano-Losada, "The rise and development of parenthetical spoiler alert"

19-23 April 2021: III Jornades d’Experiències Docents, University of the Balearic Islands: Tamara Bouso-Rivas, “Desarrollo de competencias y el enfoque por tareas en el nuevo Grado en Dirección Hotelera de la UIB: la perspectiva del alumnado” [first author, with Ítalo Raúl Abraham Arbulu Villanueva & Iria María Bello Viruega].

14-16 April 2021: AESLA 2021 (International Conference of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of A Coruña:

• Noelia Castro-Chao, "The development of the verb thirst in the history of English: A corpus-based study"
• Fátima Faya-Cerqueiro, Gema Alcaraz-Mármol, Mª Victoria Guadamillas-Gómez & Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, "L2 learning experiences among teacher trainees"

26-27 March 2021: Working CLIL Virtual 2021 - 2nd International Colloquium, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro, "What do (future) teachers really know about CLIL?"

23 February 2021: Invited lecture (online) at California State University, Fullerton, Master of Arts in Spanish: Tamara Bouso-Rivas, "Unha ollada á lingua galega dende a historia, a literatura e a lingüística".

15 January 2021: Cristina Lastres-López participated in the panel "Student resources during a pandemic: Linguistic Society of America Student Ambassadors share their experiences and insight", 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (online). [Jointly with Lillian Jones (University of California, Davis), John Powell (University of Arizona) and Samuel Jambrovic (University of Toronto).]

5 December 2020: Linguistweets. The First International Twitter Conference on Linguistics, Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN): Noelia Castro-Chao, "The demise of impersonal constructions".

6 November 2020: IDAES Graduate Day 2020, University of A Coruña:

• Idoya Cancelas-León, "A preliminary approach to first person epistemic parentheticals in World Englishes"
  
• Noelia Castro-Chao, "From adverbial subordination to complementation: On minor complementisers in Early Modern English"
• Magdalena Meczyñska, "Evaluación de programas plurilingües: análisis de resultados de la enseñanza del Francés Lengua Extranjera (FLE) en los centros de la ESO del municipio de Oleiros en el marco del Plan Galego de potenciación das linguas estranxeiras de la Xunta de Galicia"
  

9-11 September 2020: Stance, (Inter)Subjectivity, Identity in Discourse 2020 (STANCEDISC'20), Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Mario Serrano Losada, "Spoiler alert, this is no spoiler: assumption, irony and intersubjectivity at play".

26-29 August 2020: 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2020 platform (previously Bucharest): Cristina Lastres-López, "Pragmaticalization and decategorialization in conditional constructions: Evidence from English and Spanish".

6 August 2020: invited lecture (online) at the Linguistics Program, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California Riverside: Tamara Bouso-Rivas, "On syntactic productivity: The case of the English Reaction Object Construction".

20-24 May 2020: ICAME 41, Heidelberg University: Cristina Lastres-López, "Conditionals in conversation: A contrastive corpus-based study in English, French and Spanish" [paper within the workshop Crossing the borders: Complex contrastive data and the next generation].

3 February 2020: Tamara Bouso-Rivas,"Towards a comprehensive account of the history of the English reaction object construction", Institute for English and American Studies, University of Osnabrück (Germany). [Invited lecture]

4 December 2019: María José López-Couso, "Explorar o pasado, examinar o presente, predicir or futuro: Para que serve a lingüística?". Ciclo de conferencias Destacadas da Ciencia, IV Ciclo Universitario da USC, University of Santiago de Compostela. [Invited lecture]

27-29 November 2019: 20th International Conference SEDLL​, Bilbao, University of the Basque Country:

• Fátima Faya Cerqueiro, "Using fake generators for implementing task-based approaches in L2 teaching"
• Gema Alcaraz-Mármol, Fátima Faya-Cerqueiro, Victoria Guadamillas-Gómez & Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, "Self-perceptions of L2 students: A corpus-based methodological approach"

13-15 November 2019: 43rd AEDEAN Conference, University of Alicante:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "(Non-)CLIL boys and girls: A study of English language motivation"
• Tamara Bouso, "The shaping of the transitivizing Reaction Object Construction"
• Teresa Fanego, "Serial verb constructions in English?: On the history of the VVingDIR construction"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Maybe was not alone: On epistemic may-adverbs in the history of English"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "Crown and kingdom, true or false, go and come: A survey of binomials in Late Modern English history texts"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Lexical variation in the history of American English: Attraction and differentiation in a synonym set"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, "Nominalizations across the speech-written continuum: Early Modern English in focus"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Measuring linguistic distance in World Englishes: Subject pronoun deletion in spoken and written language"

23 October 2019: María José López-Couso, “Searching for parallels between child language acquisition and historical change: What corpora can tell us about shared developmental pathways”, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. [Invited lecture]

30 September 2019: Tamara Bouso, "A diachronic account of the English Reaction Object Construction", invited lecture, Institut de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

19-21 September 2019: María José López-Couso, "On hypercharacterized subordinators in medieval and post-medieval times: Reaching a compromise between economy and redundancy?", SELIM 31st International Conference, University of Valladolid. [Plenary lecture]

18-20 September 2019: Cristina Lastres-López, "Conditional insubordination in English and French conversation: A corpus pragmatics approach", XXXIV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, University of Valencia.

5-6 September 2019: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Encoding mirativity: the emergence of acabar + gerund in the history of Spanish", 9th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics - Transnational Perspectives on the Study of Spanish in Society (SIS 2019), University of Edinburgh (UK).

21-24 August 2019: Cristina Lastres-López, "Exploring the functions of conditional constructions at the right and left periphery: Evidence from English and French", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Leipzig (Germany).

1-3 July 2019: Mario Serrano-Losada, "The paradigmatization of evidential and mirative raising predicates in English", Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English - CBDA-6, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens (France).

19 June 2019: III Encontro '¿Qué estamos tramando?', Facultad de Filología, University of Santiago de Compostela: invited presentation by Cristina Lastres-López on "La insubordinación con marcadores condicionales en inglés, francés y español: Una aproximación pragmático-funcional".

6-8 June 2019:  Julia T. Williams Camus, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, "The Primary Education Learners’ English Corpus (PELEC): design and compilation techniques", 40th Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos (APEAA) Meeting, University of Porto (Portugal).

5-7 June 2019: Iria-Gael Romay Fernández, ““Lenguaje femenino: ¿Falacia o realidad?”, IV Simposium Internacional EDiSo. Voces, silencios y silenciamientos en los estudios del discurso, University of Santiago de Compostela.

1-5 June 2019: ICAME 40, University of Neuchâtel:

• Cristina Blanco-García, "Tracing the variation between notwithstanding and although/though in the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999" [work-in-progress]
• Cristina Lastres-López, “The pragmaticalization path of conditional clauses in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study” [full paper]
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Emerging epistemic markers in American English? On the adverbialization of odds are and chances are" [full paper]
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, “Nominalizations in Early Modern English: A cross-register perspective”, paper within the workshop Register Approaches to Language Variation and Change in English(es) [full paper]
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego, Iván Tamaredo & Cristina Blanco-García, “The TEI-XML annotation of the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999” [poster]

23-25 May 2019: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio Palacios Martínez, "Teenagers and new technologies. Twitter as a means of investigating (London) teen talk", International Conference 'Youth Language: Multilingualism in a Global Context', University of Leiden.

15-17 May 2019: CILC2019, University of Valencia:

• Cristina Blanco-García, "Revisiting ephemeral concessive adverbial subordinators: A study based on the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English"
• Cristina Lastres-López, "Interpersonal conditionals in spoken English: Expressing stance and engagement through conditional clauses"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Accounting for the role of individual collocates on the choice between near-synonyms: A diachronic approach"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso, "Obligatory inversion in scientific texts"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, "Variation -ity and -ness in Early Modern English: A cross-genre perspective"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego, Iván Tamaredo & Cristina Blanco-García, "Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999: TEI-XML Annotated Version"
• Iván Tamaredo, "Probabilistic grammars across registers and modes: Pronominal subject expression in some varieties of English"

9-10 May 2019: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "From complementizing to modifying status: On the grammaticalization of the CTP-clause odds are", Workshop The syntagmatic properties of complementation patterns: Accommodating lexical and grammatical uses of CTP-clauses, University of Liège (Belgium).

23 April 2019: II Encontro '¿Qué estamos tramando?', Facultad de Filología, University of Santiago de Compostela: invited presentation by Iván Tamaredo on “Heterogeneidad gramatical y omisión de pronombres: Diferencias probabilísticas entre variedades del inglés”.

23 April 2019: Cristina Lastres-López, "Conditional subordination and insubordination in English, French and Spanish: A functional-pragmatic approach", invited presentation, Research group FunC: Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, KU Leuven (Belgium).

27-29 March 2019: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, " Motivation and gender: CLIL vs. non-CLIL Primary Education students in Cantabria", 37th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA37), University of Valladolid.

25-27 March 2019: Francisco Gallardo del Puerto & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "The motivation profile of L2 English young CLIL and non-CLIL learners: Gender as a moderator factor", 2nd International Conference on Bilingualism, University of Malta (Malta).

30 November 2018: Belén Méndez-Naya, "Of right heirs, right idiots and bad data. The diachrony of the intensifying adjective right", Intensity. Annual conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Université de Mons (Mons, Belgium). [Keynote speaker]

23 November 2018: Belén Méndez-Naya, "Intensification strategies in Old English: Synthetic devices", Old English Syntax and Semantics 2018, University of La Rioja. [Invited lecture]

7-9 November 2018: 42nd AEDEAN Conference, University of Córdoba:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "Ridiculously awesome: Some diachronic notes on the intensifier ridiculously"
• Cristina Lastres-López, "The discourse-pragmatic functions of conditionals in legal English, French and Spanish: A corpus-based study"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Chances are: Enlarging the catalogue of epistemic adverbial expressions in English"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "Planets and stars: Binomials in Late Modern English astronomy texts"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "Modeling the choice of near-synonyms in the recent history of American English: The case of fragrant,perfumed, and scented"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, "It is ordered a subpoena be awarded to the defendant vs. I order today the grant of a new tenancy in pursuance of this Act: On the active/passive alternation in law reports"
• Mario Serrano-Losada, "Evidential and mirative as-parentheticals with raising verbs in the recent history of English"
• Iván Tamaredo, "Structural and system complexity in Indian English, Singapore English, and British English: The case of pronoun deletion"

17-19 October 2018: Cristina Lastres-López, "Quantifying conditionality: On the notion of conditionality and the discourse functions of if-clauses", XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, University of Castilla-La Mancha.

10 October 2018: Teresa Fanego, "Constructional competition: The development of English motion patterns from Old English to the present day", Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki. [Invited lecture.]

27-31 August 2018: ICEHL XX, University of Edinburgh (UK):

• Teresa Fanego: "Frank found his way to New York: The history of the Way construction revisited"
• María José López-Couso: "Is there redundancy in so-called 'redundant' adverbial subordinators? Evidence from the history of English"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "Synthetic intensification devices in Old English" [paper within the workshop Degree Phenomena in the History of English, chaired by Merja Kytö (University of Uppsala) and Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg)]
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Frequency and productivity of nominalizations in law reports: A diachronic perspective"

17 July 2018: One-day workshop "Investigating stance constructions", organised  in the context of ISLE 5 (Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University College London. Workshop convenors: Gunther Kaltenböck, María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya.

17-20 July 2018: Cristina Lastres-López, "On the use of modal verbs in conditional clauses in English", ISLE 5 (Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University College London (UK).

14-15 June 2018: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, “Can I borrow your thingamajig? ¿No estará grabando este chisme?: On vague language and placeholders in British and Spanish teen talk”. ICNICE 2018: Pushing English to the limit. Innovation, creativity and communicative negotiaton in native and non-native context, University of Santiago de Compostela.

12-13 June 2018: VI Encontro da Mocidade investigadora en Artes e Humanidades, Ciencias Sociais e Xurídicas, University of Santiago de Compostela: Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Measuring semantic similarity in Late Modern and Contemporary American English: A corpus-based study"

30 May-3 June 2018: ICAME 39, University of Tampere (Finland):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: “Two sides of the same coin? Tracking the history of the intensifying adverbs deadly and mortal(ly)”
  
• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Throwing some light on the development of impersonal constructions: A case study of lust (after)"
• María José López-Couso & Raúl Río-Fernández: "Searching for parallels between ontogenetic and diachronic grammaticalization: The case of want to/wanna".
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Synonymy revisited: Some diachronic notes on the concept SWEET-SMELLING in American English"
• Iván Tamaredo, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven), Jason Grafmiller (University of Birmingham), Benedikt Heller (KU Leuven) & Melanie Röthlisberger (KU Leuven): "Measuring the variational homogeneity of English as a world language: Probabilistic indigenization effects in four syntactic alternations"

24-25 May 2018: International Conference "Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: Theories and methods", University of Vigo:

• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Analogy-driven change: The emergence and development of mirative end up constructions in Present-day English”
• Iván Tamaredo: “Probabilistic indigenization in British English, Indian English, and Singapore English”

9-11 May 2018: 10th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), University of Extremadura (Cáceres):

• Teresa Fanego: "On the history of the Way Construction and its interaction with the English Intransitive Motion Construction"
• María José López-Couso & Javier Pérez-Guerra (UVigo): "A corpus-based analysis of negative contraction in the recent history of English: This isn’t and is not an easy goal!"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "The verb-second subject-operator inverted construction"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Passives in legal English: A diachronic approach"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "The rise and development of mirative end up in American English"

4 May 2018: Noelia Castro-Chao, "The development of formerly impersonal verbs of desire in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study", IDAES Graduate Day 2018, University of Vigo.

25 April 2018: Tamara Bouso, “The transitivizing reaction object construction”. Invited lecture at the Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany).

18-19 November 2017: Tamara Bouso, "The reaction object construction and the way-construction: Two parallel developments?", International Workshop on 'Gradience and Constructional Change', University of Edinburgh (UK).

9-11 November 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, "On if/whether variation in English and their Spanish equivalents", 32º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, University of Seville.

8-10 November 2017: 41st AEDEAN Conference, University of La Laguna (Tenerife):

• María José López-Couso: "On the motivations for structural hypercharacterization: 'Strengthened' subordinators in the history of English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Discontinuity in verb-particle combinations: A diachronic perspective" [paper within the roundtable Formal and functional approaches to linguistic discontinuity, chaired by Daniel García Velasco (University of Oviedo)]
• Iván Tamaredo: "A cross-varietal study of pronoun omission in English: Simplification and substrate effects"

28-30 September 2017: 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Vigo:

• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio Palacios Martínez: “Intensifiers in Multicultural London English. New trends and developments”
• Iván Tamaredo: “The expression of pronominal subjects in British English, Indian English and Singapore English. A corpus-based study”

10-13 September 2017: 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Zurich (Switzerland):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Mario Serrano-Losada: “Assumed evidential expressions with verba dicendi: Evidence from English and French”
• Cristina Lastres-López: “Conditional clauses in functional-cognitive space”
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "A paradigm in the making: On the emergence of mirative verbs and the role of analogy"

6-9 September 2017: Cristina Blanco-García, "Annotating the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports" [poster presentation], International Conference of the Law and Language Association (ILLA), University of Freiburg (Germany).

7-11 August 2017: Belén Méndez-Naya, "Of right heirs and right idiots: A historical account of the intensifying adjective right" [paper within the workshop Beyond the well-known: current foci and issues in research on intensification], Methods in Dialectology XVI, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo.

24-28 July 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, "The pragmatics of insubordinate if-clauses in British English: A corpus-based study", 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham (UK).

6-9 June 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, “On the variation between if and whether in British English”, 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), University of Málaga.

31 May-2 June 2017: 9th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC9), Université Paris Diderot (France):

• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "On the endophoric, abstract and narrative nature of idiomatic do so in legal texts, journalistic texts and written correspondence"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "The XML annotation of A Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999: A progress report" [poster]
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras & Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (University of Valencia): "A corpus-based analysis of news values in construing intimate partner violence discourses in digital written media: A historical perspective"

30 May 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, “Towards a functional-cognitive typology of if-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents”, IDAES Graduate Day 2017, University of A Coruña.

24 May 2017: One-day workshop on "Advances in corpora of legal English: Investigating variation in legal discourse", organized  in the context of ICAME 38 (Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). Workshop convenors: Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodríguez-Puente.

• Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela) & Paula Rodríguez-Puente (University of Oviedo): “Investigating variation in legal discourse: An overview”
• Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University): "Are law reports an ‘agile’ or an ‘uptight’ register?  Historical change in the use of phrasal complexity features"
• Donata Berūkštienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania): “Structural types of lexical bundles in court judgments in English and Lithuanian: A corpus-driven analysis”
• Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia): “Lexical bundles in English and Italian legal texts: A cross-linguistic analysis”
• Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham): “British patents of invention 1711-2011: A corpus-based diachronic genre analysis”
• Anu Lehto (University of Helsinki): “The representation of authorities and citizens in Acts of Parliament in 1800-2000”
• Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen (Northern Arizona University): “A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across three periods”
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente (University of Oviedo): “Are law reports a hybrid text type? Exploring the oral/literate continuum in the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports, 1535-1999”

25-28 May 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, “Exploring conditional clauses in English, Spanish and French: Contrastive discourse-functional considerations”, 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 8), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece).

24-28 May 2017: ICAME 38 (Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Mario Serrano-Losada: "Needless to say and goes without saying: Diachronic and synchronic considerations" [full paper]
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "From happenstance to epistemic possibility: Corpus evidence for the adverbialization of happenstance expressions" [full paper]
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: “Practically impossible: From 'practicality' to 'approximation'” [full paper]

4-6 May 2017: XXXV Congreso Internacional de AESLA, Unviersity of Jaén:

• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "What annotation masks: Examining minor declarative complementizers in parsed corpora of historical English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: “From an adverbial meaning to a discursive function:  The Spanish formula en plan (de) throughout time”

4-5 April 2017: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English, KU Leuven (Belgium):

• Cristina Blanco-García: "Expanding the inventory of adverbial subordinators: Early Modern English ephemeral causal markers"
• Noelia Castro-Chao: “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of long (for)”
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: “A diachronic account of the behavioral profiles of fragrant, perfumed, scented, and sweet-smelling in American English: A pilot study”
• Mario Serrano-Losada: “The emergence of mirative end up and the role of analogy”
• Iván Tamaredo: “A study of subject omission in three varieties of English: A multifactorial analysis”

4 March 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, “Comparing if-clauses in English with their Spanish and French equivalents: A corpus-based study across genres”, 14th Corpus Linguistics in the South Conference. Corpus Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birkbeck, University of London (United Kingdom).

27 January 2017:  Fátima Faya (with Maria Victoria Guadamillas Gomez, Ana Martín-Macho Harrison & Gema Alcaraz Mármol, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha), “Methodology and Evaluation in CLIL Settings”, Evidence-Based Strategies to Support Bilingual Education in Spain and the US, University of Salamanca.

14-16 December 2016: Paula Rodríguez-Puente [invited plenary lecture], “Unveiling linguistic corpora: the reality of building and tagging an electronic corpus”, V Conference Innovation in Philology and Communication Studies: Methodological and Research Applications, Universitat de Valencia.

30 November 2016: Fátima Faya (with Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha), “Testing and improving reading skills: A collaborative game with Socrative”, Congreso XVII Internacional de la SEDLL, University of Extremadura.

17 November 2016: Fátima Faya (with Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha), “Use of L1 and L2 for the evaluation in CLIL contexts”, III Congreso internacional sobre educación bilingüe en un mundo globalizado, Instituto Franklin, Alcalá de Henares.

9-11 November 2016: 40th AEDEAN Conference, University of Zaragoza (Huesca):

• Tamara Bouso: "The Reaction Object Construction: A British innovation?"
• Noelia Castro-Chao: “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of like and please”
• Belén Méndez-Naya & María José López-Couso: “On the competition between perhaps and maybe: A cross-varietal approach"

26-28 October 2016: Teresa Fanego, "Making one's way through the history of the Intransitive Motion Construction and the Way-construction", VCC Symposium 2016 (International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions), University of La Rioja [plenary lecture].

24-25 October 2016: Cristina Lastres-López, “Conditionals across languages: A corpus-based study of if-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents”, 3rd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics. Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies (VDOCS 2016), University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland).

19-21 October 2016: Cristina Lastres-López, “English spelling at British universities: A comparison between the writing of native and non-native students”, XXXI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, University of Vigo.

5-7 October 2016: Fátima Faya, “Cambios lingüísticos y percepciones del cambio en femenino: ejemplos de la historia de la lengua inglesa”, II Jornadas Filológicas Internacionales de la Universidad de La Rioja: La lengua y la literatura en femenino [plenary lecture].

18-21 September 2016: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Ends up, I'm not a very good writer: On the grammaticalization of mirative parenthetical ends up in American English", 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE4), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland).

15-17 September 2016: Belén Méndez-Naya, "A system in flux at a time of change: Intensifiers in The Ormulum", 28th International Conference of SELIM, University of Vigo [plenary lecture].

15-16 September 2016: Cristina Lastres-López, “A preliminary corpus-based approach to if/whether variation in closed subordinate interrogatives”, IV Congreso Internacional de Lingüística, Literatura y Cultura. Cambios y transiciones: Enfoques múltiples dentro de la lingüística, el bilingüismo, la literatura y cultura, Catholic University of Murcia.

31 August-3 September 2016: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "From terrific, monstrous looking animals to terrific, funny guys: On the semantic development of the polysemous adjective terrific", 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II (Italy).

22-26 August 2016: Cristina Blanco-García, "A diachronic account of 'ephemeral' conditional and concessive subordinators: A corpus-based study", 19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (19ICEHL), Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany).

15 July 2016: IV Xornada Galega Universitaria en Xénero. Perspectiva de Xénero na Docencia Universitaria, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Zaida Vila Carneiro & Fátima Faya: "Figuras femeninas en el álbum ilustrado: reflexión crítica para el alumnado de los grados de Educación"
• Fátima Faya & Zaida Vila Carneiro: "Roles de género y lenguaje inclusivo: propuestas para trabajar en el aula universitaria los cuentos tradicionales"

13-15 July 2016: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "The interpersonal meaning of and-parentheticals in British and American English newspapers", 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistic Conference, University of Salzburg (Austria).

6-8 July 2016: Cristina Lastres-López, “The emergence of an English-based creole language: Some notes on the origin and linguistic features of Jamaican Creole”, Congreso Internacional de Literatura, Lengua y Traducción liLETRAd 2016, University of Seville.

28-30 June 2016: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "On the textual behaviour of idiomatic do so", 7th Formulaic Research Network Conference, Vilnius University (Lithuania).

20-22 June 2016: IV Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Literatura, University of Cantabria:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Semantic change in English and French: The case of death-related intensifiers"
• María José López-Couso: "Probing developmental parallels between first language acquisition and diachronic change" [plenary lecture]
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Sobre la gramaticalización de la miratividad y la evidencialidad en español y en inglés: las construcciones resulta que y (it) turns out (that)"

9-10 June 2016: Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "A diachronic behavioral profile study of near-synonyms in American English: Adjectives as a case in point", IV Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora, University of Santiago de Compostela.

31 May-2 June 2016: II Jornadas Doctorales de la Universidad de Murcia, University of Murcia:

• Noelia Castro-Chao: "The development of English impersonal constructions from 1350 onwards"
• Daniela Pettersson-Traba: "Analyzing the behavioral profiles of sets of near-synonyms in American English from a diachronic perspective"

26-28 May 2016: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, "A cross-linguistic study of the role and expression of vague language in teen talk", 8th International Conference on Youth Language, University of Graz (Austria).

25-29 May 2016: ICAME 37, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China):

• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "From the Inner to the Outer Circle: A look at the epistemic adverbs perhaps and maybe in Hong Kong English and Philippine English"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Subject omission in Indian English and Singapore English: Agreement and collocational strength"

19 May 2016: Tamara Bouso, "From yelping sorrow to muttering contempt: On the history of the English Reaction Object Construction". Invited presentation at the University of Osnabrück (Germany).

19 May 2016: IDAES Graduate Day 2016, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "A corpus-based approach to the history of ephemeral adverbial subordinators: Concessives, conditionals and causals"
• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Changes in transitivization in the history of English: From impersonal to personal constructions"

14-16 April 2016: Cristina Lastres-López, “Exploring if/si-clauses in spoken academic discourse: A contrastive English-Spanish-French study”, 34º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), University of Alicante.

13-15 April 2016: Fátima Faya & Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, “Conexión entre párrafos en textos argumentativos: estudio comparativo entre español (L1) e inglés (L2)”, V Congreso Internacional de Competencias Básicas: la competencia en comunicación lingüística, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real.

11-13 April 2016: Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, "Origen y gramaticalización de en plan (de)", V Jornadas de Lingüístic Hispánica. Centros y periferias, University of Lisbon (Portugal).

2-4 March 2016: 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2016), University of Málaga:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "Looking into the ephemeral and prototypical conditional subordinators in English: A diachronic account"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "The that is parenthetical construction and the indirect expression of attitude in academic texts"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Cristina Blanco-García & Iván Tamaredo: "The Corpus of English Law Reports: A progress report"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Julia Williams: "The University of Cantabria English Learner Corpus (UCELC): Design and compilation techniques"
• Iván Tamaredo: "The effect of frequency of co-occurrence on subject pronoun omission in Indian English and Singapore English"

10-12 December 2015: Fátima Faya & Ana Martín-Macho Harrison, "Consolidamos contenidos mediante el juego en el aula de lengua inglesa en el Grado de Maestro de Educación Infantil", XVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, University of Alicante.

10-11 December 2015: Daniela Pettersson, "Is it fragrant, perfumed, scented, or sweet-smelling? A preliminary diachronic corpus-based behavioral profile study of the near-synonyms in American English, with a focus on collocational behavior", II Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación Lingüística, University of Extremadura.

3-6 December 2015: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "A constructional map of obligatory XVS syntactic structures", Cognitive Linguistics in Wroclaw Conference, University of Wroclaw (Poland).

11-13 November 2015: 39th AEDEAN Conference, University of Deusto (Bilbao):

• Fátima Faya: "Performative expressions in eighteenth-century requests"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "Such a right mess: On intensifying uses of the adjective right in the history of English"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "The 'that-is' parenthetical construction in written English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Particle placement diachronically: Late Modern English and Twentieth-century English in focus"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Frequency effects in Indian and Singapore English: Pronoun omission and complex units"

6 November 2015: Cristina Blanco-García, "A diachronic corpus-based approach to ephemeral subordinators: Concessives and conditionals in focus", Department of English, LMU Munich (Germany).

23 October 2015: Teresa Fanego, (plenary lecture) "On the early history of the English motion construction The coach rumbled back to town", Symposium on Complementation, University of Tampere (Finland).

2-5 September 2015: 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (The Netherlands):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Mario Serrano-Losada: "Needless to say and evidential expressions in English and Spanish: a diachronic corpus-based study"
• Tamara Bouso & Teresa Fanego: "Argument structure in flux: on the emergence of two valency-increasing constructions in the history of English"
• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "'The employee got fired' vs 'The book got published': new trends in subject animacy and subject responsibility"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "A syntactic and pragmatic approach to insubordinate if-clauses in formal spoken American English" [paper within the workshop (Semi-)Independent Subordinate Constructions]
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "On verbal anaphora in fictional and non-fictional English: the case of do so"

27-31 July 2015: 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22), University of Naples Federico II (Italy):

• Teresa Fanego & Tamara Bouso: "When the minstrels rustled into the room, she whispered disbelief: On the development of two valency-increasing constructions in the history of English"
• Tania de Dios: "Object omission in English: Going back to the roots"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "A diachronic inquiry into English turn out and Spanish resultar mirative constructions: A case of ongoing grammaticalization?"
• Mario Serrano-Losada & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "A cross-linguistic study of evidential parentheticals in English, French and Spanish: Needless to say and related expressions"

20-25 July 2015: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13), Northumbria University (UK):

• Tamara Bouso: "Exploring the history of Reaction Object Constructions. A collostructional analysis"
• Tania de Dios: "After 15 years of sobriety I found out he was drinking and using again: Taboo avoidance as a trigger for object drop?"

7-8 July 2015: Cristina Lastres-López, “Towards a typology of if-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents: Evidence from the spoken academic genre”, Congreso Internacional de Literatura, Lengua y Traducción liLETRAd 2015, University of Seville.

2-4 July 2015: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "On crossing borders between grammar and text: The role of verbal anaphors in textual variation", GRATO 2015 (4th International  Conference  on  Grammar  and  Text), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

8-10 June 2015: Iván Tamaredo, "Complexity and relative clauses in Indian English and British English", Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives (ChangE 2015) , University of Helsinki, Finland.

5-7 June 2015: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "On the haps and mishaps of happenstance expressions as a source of epistemic adverbs in English", 9th Studies in the History of the English Language Conference (SHEL-9), University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus), Canada.

27-31 May 2015: ICAME 36, University of Trier (Germany):

• Cristina Blanco-García: "A preliminary approach to 'ephemeral' conditional adverbial subordinators in the history of English" [work in progress]
• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "The rock when heated gets expanded: Semantic and pragmatic innovations in ESL varieties" [poster presentation]
• María José López-Couso: "Tracing the variation between perhaps and maybe in historical and contemporary corpora"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Imperatives vs. insubordinate if-clauses: A corpus study of directives in formal and informal spoken American English" [poster presentation]
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "Co-occurrence and iteration of intensifiers in early English: A case of linguistic accretion"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "How can you feel better than terrific? Insights on the recent history of terrific"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Diachronic cross-genre comparisons in the use of phrasal verbs (1650-1990)"
• Iván Tamaredo, Teresa Fanego & J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña: "The complexity of pronoun omission: An analysis based on ICE Singapore and ICE India"

15 May 2015: IDAES Graduate Day 2015, University of Vigo:

• Noelia Castro-Chao: "Changes in argument structure: Developments in impersonal constructions from Late Middle English onwards. A corpus-based study"
• Aleksandra Kaverina: "Reformulation markers in contemporary English, Spanish and Russian: A cross-linguistic and corpus-based study"
• Iria-Gael Romay: "A cross-linguistic study of motion verbs in English and Spanish"

17 & 24 April 2015: Seminario modular plurilingüe de lengua y literatura "Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio del patrimonio lingüístico-literario", University of Cantabria:

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "Construcciones con "get" verbales y adjetivales: un gradiente innovador"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Phrasal verbs across genres, 1650-1990: Exploring the formal-informal continuum"

8-10 April 2015: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Algunos apuntes sobre 'resulta que': ¿Un proceso de gramaticalización en marcha?", XV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española (XV CIAJIHLE), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

5-7 March 2015: 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2015), University of Valladolid:

• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "A corpus-based analysis of and-parenthetical constructions in British and American English texts"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Phrasal verbs in the spoken language of the past: Formal and stylistic features"

4-6 February 2015: Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4), University of Vigo:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "Ephemerality in concessive subordinators. Evidence from the history of English"
• Alba Pérez-González: "Looking into extender tags in Late Modern English: The case of or something or other".
• Iván Tamaredo: "The conventionalization of performance preferences: Pronoun omission in Indian English and Singapore English"

3 December 2014: Tamara Bouso, "On the formation and development of Reaction Object Constructions in English", Language Variation and Change Research Group, University of Edinburgh (UK).

26 November 2014: Tania de Dios, "Walking on the margins of intransitivity: A study of unexpressed objects in English", English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh (UK).

13 November 2014: Cristina Blanco-García, (invited presentation) "On the notion of ephemerality in marking subordination: A diachronic account", (Post-)Doctoral Research Colloquium, University of Freiburg (Germany).

12-14 November 2014: 38th AEDEAN Conference, University of Alcalá de Henares:

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "The ‘fading’ of the definitory characteristics of passives: An Outer Circle innovation?"
• Teresa Fanego: "The emergence and expansion of the English ACC-ing construction"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "And-parenthetical constructions in written English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente (with Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Univ. of Vigo): "Given my purse away! To whom? said the widow - Phrasal particles and prepositions in historical diaries and journals"
• Iván Tamaredo: "Complexity and Pronoun Drop in contact varieties of English"
• María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya & Fátima Faya (round table, with Julia Barón & María Luz Celaya, Univ. of Barcelona): "Historical linguistics and applied linguistics at the meeting point: The speech act of requests in diachrony and L1 / L2 acquisition"

22-24 October 2014: International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions. Theory, Variation and Change (VCC Symposium 2014), University of La Rioja (Logroño):

• Tamara Bouso: "Whispering adieus and smiling a welcome: Changes in argument structure in the history of English"
• Tania de Dios: "On the relationship between retrievability and object omission: A corpus-based approach to contextual object omission in English"
• Teresa Fanego: "From modifier to core argument: The constructionalization of English ACC-ing gerundives"

6-8 October 2014: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Raising turn out in late Modern English: The rise of a mirative construction", International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL’14), Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

11–14 September 2014: Teresa Fanego, "'The ladies all sitting in the open air, exposes them to great inconveniences': The role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of ACC-ing gerundives", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland).

3-6 September 2014: Tamara Bouso, "'They threw their caps..., shouting their emulation': Reaction Object Constructions in Early and Late Modern English", 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG8), University of Osnabrück (Germany).

29 August-2 September 2014: Cristina Blanco-García, "Ephemeral adverbial subordinators in the history of English: A corpus-based study", Doctoral sessions in English Language, 12th ESSE Conference, University of Košice (Slovakia).

24-27 August 2014: 3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 3), University of Zurich (Switzerland):

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: “From verbal to adjectival participial constructions with get: An examination of the passive gradient in World Englishes” [poster presentation]
• Teresa Fanego: “Multiple sources in language change: The emergence of English ACC-ing gerundives”
• María José López-Couso: "Transferring insights from language acquisition to diachronic change: Some examples from English" [paper within the workshop The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives]
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Between grammar and discourse: The variation between imperatives and insubordinated if-clauses in spoken English"

14-18 July 2014: 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-18), KU Leuven (Belgium):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: “Mortal lazy and deadly curious: Some diachronic notes on the intensifiers mortal and deadly”
• Tania de Dios: "Is retrievability a guarantee for omission?: A look into the recent history of contextual object deletion in American English"
• María José López-Couso: “On structural hypercharacterization: Some examples from the history of English syntax” [plenary lecture]
• Belén Méndez-Naya: “ “From spatial adjunct to degree modifier: On the development of the intensifier function of ‘out’-adverbs”

4-5 July 2014: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "From clause to adverb: On the history of maybe and related forms", Outside the clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents (Workshop), University of Vienna (Austria).

11 June 2014: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Sobre la adverbialización de maybe 'quizás’", Workshop 'Análise de construcións e lingüística de corpus', University of Santiago de Compostela.

4-6 June 2014: Aleksandra Kaverina, "When do we rectify?: Rectification in contemporary spoken British English", International Conference on Spoken English: Descriptive and Applied Perspectives (ICSE2014), University of Santiago de Compostela.

22-24 May 2014: 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2014), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "Tracing the history of how-ephemeral concessive subordinators: A corpus-based study"
• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "From literal to intensifying: Some notes on the development of death-related intensifiers in English, German and Portuguese"
• Fátima Faya: "Please as an (im)politeness marker: scope of functions from a diachronic perspective"
• Aleksandra Kaverina: "Rectification through in other words and in short: Comparing spoken and written British English"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Learned syntax and grammaticalization: evidence from Spanish"

30 April-4 May 2014: ICAME 35, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom):

• Tania de Dios: "Looking for the difference in our silences: A corpus-based approach to object omission in English and Spanish"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "On the adverbialization of may + be/happen constructions"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Particle placement in Late Modern English and Twentieth-century English" [work in progress]

29-31 January 2014: II Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora EDI-USC, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "Os subordinantes adverbiais efémeros na Historia do Inglés: Un estudo de corpus" [poster presentation]
• Aleksandra Kaverina: "Los marcadores de reformulación en inglés, español y ruso contemporáneo: Un estudio de corpus" [poster presentation]
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Construccionalización y gramaticalización de <resultar + infinitivo> en español" [poster presentation]
• Iván Tamaredo: "Complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world" [poster presentation]

27-29 November 2013: International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions. Theory, Variation and Change (VCCSymposium 2013), University of La Rioja:

• Tania de Dios: "Setting boundaries in the realm of the unvoiced: A new look at object (in)omissibility in English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Are phrasal verbs really colloquial? Evidence from the history of English"

14-15 November 2013: Teresa Fanego, "New reflections on actualization and reanalysis, with special reference to the rise of ACC-ing gerundives", Third Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP3), KU Leuven (Belgium).

13-15 November 2013: 37th AEDEAN Conference, University of Oviedo:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "On the history of the subordinator how(so/some)ever. A corpus-based study"
• Tamara Bouso: "Towards an understanding of nonprototypical objects, with special reference to reaction objects"
• Tania de Dios: "What can we leave unsaid?: A corpus-based approach to object omission in Contemporary English"
• Aleksandra Kaverina: "Rectification through in other words and or rather in Contemporary American and British English"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Looking into the relation between imperatives and isolated if-clauses: evidence from spoken British and American English"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "All-out, outright, throughout, thwertout, utterly: On 'out'-intensifiers in the history of English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "A preliminary approach to particle placement from the diachronic perspective"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "There's no sanctuary not like in the Old Testament times where you can run to a village: adverbial relative clauses in World Englishes"

18-19 October 2013: Englishes Today 2013. Theoretical and Methodological Issues, University of Vigo:

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "Down the passive gradient: from agentive to borderline get + past participle constructions in Singaporean English"
• Mario Serrano-Losada: "Element-final like in Hiberno-English: Notes on its pervasiveness, frequency and distribution"

26-28 September 2013: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "Intensifiers in the history of English: Dead, to death and die for in focus", 8th Studies in the History of the English Language Conference (SHEL-8), Brigham Young University, Utah (USA).

19 September 2013: Lucía Loureiro-Porto, "Modelling language contact: The unbearable lightness of complexity" [invited paper], Variation and Contact in Languaging: Ecological and Complex Approaches, satellite workshop of the European Conference on Complex Systems, University of Barcelona.

18-21 September 2013: 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Split (Croatia):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "A cross-linguistic comparison of death-related intensifiers: Evidence from English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish"
• Teresa Fanego: "Commemoration of Dieter Kastovsky: Dieter, the historical linguist"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Adverbial subordinators in complementation structures in English: Synchronic and diachronic considerations"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio Palacios: "'Go up to Miss Thingy'. 'He's probably like a whatshit or something'. Placeholders in focus: The differences in use between teenagers and adults in Spoken English"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: "Grammatical variation in written and spoken World Englishes: A comparison of the ICE corpora"

8-13 September 2013: Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane, "Pragmatic and cognitive determinants of grammatical variation in World Englishes", 13th International Conference of Pragmatics, Indian Institute of Technology (ITT), New Delhi.

23 August 2013: Teresa Fanego, "Clauses as non-oblique complements in the history of English" [plenary lecture], Tampere Linguistics Forum - Perspectives on Complementation, University of Tampere (Finland).

5-9 August 2013: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Secondary grammaticalization in clause combining: Minor declarative complementizers in English as a case in point" [paper within the workshop Secondary Grammaticalization and Other Stage Processes in Grammaticalization], 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), University of Oslo (Norway).

18-20 July 2013: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Pictorial metaphor and metonymy at work: The case of painkiller advertising", III International Conference on Meaning Construction, Meaning Interpretation: Applications and Implications (CRAL 2013), University of La Rioja (Logroño).

8-10 July 2013: Fátima Faya, “Hercule Poirot or how to depict politeness in a foreign character”, Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness, SOAS, University of London (United Kingdom).

19-21 June 2013: IWodA'13, Second International Workshop on Discourse Analysis, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Tamara Bouso: "The role of presupposition in the discourse of advertising: Nutritional advertising in health and fitness magazines as a testing-ground"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Exploring the grammatical status and discourse functions of directive isolated if-clauses in spoken British and American English"

10-12 June 2013: Cristina Suárez-Gómez, "You return that terrorist which you've arrested: an analyis of postmodifying clauses in Asian Englishes", Changing English: Contacts & Variation, University of Helsinki (Finland).

5-7 June 2013: Tania de Dios, "He was eating vs. *He was devouring: trying to throw light on the workings of object deletion", 3rd International Conference of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS), University of Oviedo (Gijón Campus).

22-26 May 2013: ICAME 34, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "A look at participal constructions with get in East Asian Englishes: The Hong Kong variety" [poster presentation]
• Fátima Faya: "Eating disorders terminology from scientific journals to mass media: A preliminary approach" [poster presentation]
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: "[T]he figure sixty forty seven forty five...: Modals of necessity in Hong Kong and Indian English"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Keep it in that place versus if you could keep it in that place: On the variation between imperatives and isolated if-clauses"
• Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "Re-examining the levelling of present perfect and simple past in World Englishes"

2-4 May 2013: María José López-Couso, "Exploring linguistic accretion: Middle English as a testing ground" [plenary lecture], 8th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME-8), University of Murcia.

10-12 April 2013: XIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española (AJIHLE), University of Salamanca:

• Fátima Faya & Zaida Vila Carneiro: "Adiós o a Dios: función de esta expresión en fórmulas de despedida en el teatro aurisecular"
• Mario Serrano-Losada:"Gramaticalización y tradiciones discursivas: el caso de la construcción evidencial <resultar + INF>",

14-16 March 2013: 5th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2013), University of Alicante:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "On the history of the subordinator notwithstanding. A corpus-based study"
• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "'A diachronic corpus-based approach to intensifiers in English: Death-related intensifiers as a case in point"
• Tania de Dios: "Exploring transitivity alternations across dialects. A preliminary approach"
• Aleksandra Kaverina: "Markers of reformulation in contemporary written English. A corpus-based study"

14 January 2013: Tamara Bouso presented a poster on the topic "Reaction object constructions in English" at the Poster Session held at LOT Winter School 2013, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

13-15 December 2012: I Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora EDI-USC, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Teresa Fanego:  "La construcción de una carrera investigadora: algunos apuntes y reflexiones" [plenary lecture]
• Tamara Bouso: "Procesos de transitivización no inglés moderno e contemporáneo: un estudo de corpus das construcións con obxectos de reacción" [poster presentation]
• Fátima Faya: "La cooperación interdisciplinar y su influencia en los nuevos campos de investigación en Filología" [poster presentation]

14-16 November 2012: 36th AEDEAN Conference, University of Malaga:

• Cristina Blanco-García: "A look at the ephemeral concessive subordinator howbeit in Middle and Early Modern English"
• Tamara Bouso: "A preliminary study of sexist language in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men through the female characters of Betty Draper, Joan Holloway and Peggy Olson”
• Tania de Dios: "Towards a definitive taxonomy for the classification of verbs used without an object in Contemporary English: Liu's (2008) model subject to examination"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Teaching sociolinguistics after the Bologna Declaration or how to achieve basic skills using TV materials”
• Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “Factors determining language variation in New Englishes: Vernacular universals versus contact-induced change”

17-19 October 2012: Iria-Gael Romay, "Sea and sky: swim and fly in LOB and Flob", VIII Congreso Internacional Bianual de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (AELCO 2012), University of Almería.

21-22 September 2012: 3rd International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "Get + past participle constructions in PDE spoken Indian English: Exploring the passive gradient"
• Tania de Dios: "A comparative assessment of the models used for the classification of verbs used without an object in Contemprary English"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Are isolated if-clauses independent clauses? Evidence from spoken British and American English"
• Iria-Gael Romay, Samantha N. Emerson, Teresa Fanego, Seyda Özcaliskan, Paloma Núñez Pertejo & Gwen Frishkoff: "Crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish"

10-14 September 2012: IX Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, University of Cádiz. Mario Serrano-Losada presented papers on the following topics:

• "Historia, gramática y pragmática de <resultar + INF>"
• "De pullas y puyas"

29 August - 1 September 2012: 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Stockholm:

• Teresa Fanego: "Complex motion events in the history of English: on the emergence of the construction type Sir Ascelin clanked into the hall"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: "Global democratization of English? Standard vs. emergent varieties of English"
• Iria Pastor-Gómez: "English vague words as N2 in N+N structures: an example of colloquialisation of written discourse"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "Fronting of -ed and -ing predicates in written and spoken Contemporary English"
• Iria Gael Romay-Fernández & Samantha N. Emerson (Georgia State University): "Recent developments in motion verb use among English and Spanish native speakers: a preliminary study"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: "The expression of perfect meaning in East Africa and Jamaica"

20-25 August 2012: 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL17), University of Zurich:

• Teresa Fanego: "Motion events in the history of English: the emergence of the 'sound emission to motion' construction"
• Fátima Faya: "Why golf and not golfing? Etymological revision of sports lexicon"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "On the colloquialisation of genres, or the 'drift' to more oral styles: phrasal verbs in focus"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Epistemic parentheticals with seem: Late Modern English in focus" [invited papers, within the workshop Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context]

16-19 July 2012: International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization V, University of Edinburgh:

• María José López-Couso: "Evidential/epistemic markers of the type verb + complementizer in English and Romance: Some theoretical implications" [plenary lecture]
• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Looking up and down the cline again: degrammaticalization of Galician aquelar and aquelado(s)/a(s)?"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: "The grammatical status of semi-modals of obligation in Asian Englishes"

4-7 July 2012: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Visual metaphorical and metonymic renderings of pain in advertising", 9th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM9), Lancaster University.

26 June 2012: Samantha N. Emerson, Seyda Özçaliskan, Gwen Frishkoff & Iria G. Romay-Fernández, "The effects of gesture and motion type on word learning in Spanish and English", Language, Culture and Mind V: Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity -- Young Researchers Workshop. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon.

30 May - 3 June 2012: ICAME 33, University of Leuven:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Ma daddy wis dead chuffed: some considerations on the dialectal distribution of the intensifier dead in Contemporary English" [work-in-progress report]
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "A look into epistemic parentheticals with impersonal think" [full paper]
• Ignacio Palacios & Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: "The emergence of the intensifiers proper and bare in the language of British teenagers" [poster presentation]
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "A contrastive corpus-based analysis of XVS structures in Present-day written and spoken English" [poster presentation]
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: "Exemplifying constructions in English : A historical survey" [work-in-progress report]
• Vera Vázquez-López: "On the factors favouring the use of Romance nominalizations in early scientific English" [full paper]

24-26 May 2012: Fátima Faya, "The evolution of parenthetical courtesy markers in requests in the Late Modern English
period", International Workshop "Parenthetical Verbs": Hypotaxis, Parataxis or Parenthesis? Université Paris Ouest Nanterre - La Défense.

24 May 2012: Paula Rodríguez-Puente talked on "Phrasal verbs in ARCHER 3.1: Notes on register and style" at one of the research seminars organized at VARIENG (Centre of Excellence for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English), University of Helsinki.

19-21 April 2012: Mario Serrano-Losada: "'It's up to you, like': On the ubiquity and distribution of clause-final like in Irish English", XXX AESLA International Conference, University of Lleida.

22-24 March 2012: 4th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, University of Jaén, Spain:

• Teresa Fanego: "Dictionary-based corpus linguistics and beyond: on the expression of motion events in the history of English" [plenary lecture]
• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: "From prototypical to peripheral: the get + Ven construction in contemporary spoken British English"
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "If you would like to lead: on the grammatical status of isolated if-clauses in spoken British English"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "Terence, you know, which is Paul’s boyfriend: grammatical variation in spoken Hong Kong English"
• María José López-Couso & Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Corpus compilation within the research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammatizalization: COLMOBAENG, ARCHER, and CHELAR"

23-25 February 2012: Fátima Faya discussed "Cómo puede influir una asignatura de inglés para fines específicos en posibles profesores de AICLE" ['How an ESP subject can affect possible CLIL teachers'], International Conference Practical Approaches To Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Universidad de Navarra.

24-26 November 2011: Paula Rodríguez-Puente participated in CLAVIER 11. Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) with a paper on "English phrasal verbs from 1650 to 1999: Combinations with away, back, down, forth, off, out and up as a test case".

17 November 2011: Carlos Prado-Alonso lectured on "A functional analysis of some neglected verb-second XVS constructions in English" at the Linguistic Circle, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh.

16-18 November 2011: 35th AEDEAN International Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "Some considerations on the history of the intensifying adverb dead: Early Modern English in focus"
• María José López-Couso: "To contract or not to contract: Some observations about negative incorporation in Old English prose"
• Belén Méndez-Naya: "A preliminary study of the history of the intensifier utterly"
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo [with Ignacio Palacios]: "Strategies used by English and Spanish teenagers to intensify language: A contrastive corpus-based study"
• Iria-Gael Romay: "A preliminary study of metaphorical, neutral motion verbs in LOB and FLOB"
• Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "The impact of mode on morphosyntactic variation in Asian New Englishes"

28 September-2 October 2011: Helsinki Corpus Festival: The past, present and future of English historical corpora, University of Helsinki:

• María José Lopez-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "The construction is quite old, it seems: Origin and development of the evidential/epistemic parenthetical it seems"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Talking private with phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study of English phrasal verbs from 1650 to 1999"
• Vera Vázquez-López: "Action nominalizations and audience accommodation in earlier scientific English"

8-11 September 2011: 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of La Rioja (Spain):

• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio Palacios: "That's absolutely crap, totally rubbish. The use of the intensifiers absolutely and totally in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: " Variation across genres in Present-day English exemplifying constructions"
• Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "The myth of the have+past participle construction across Englishes"

17-21 June 2011: Second Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE2), Boston University:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: “Death-related intensifiers: grammaticalisation and related phenomena in the evolution of the intensifier deadly”
• María José López-Couso: "Corpus-based methodology and grammaticalization theory: observing, describing, and analyzing grammaticalization and related processes of language change through corpus linguistics"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: “A cognitive approach to obligatory subject-dependent XVS constructions in English”

1-5 June 2011: 32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), University of Oslo:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: “The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly: Synchronic and diachronic considerations"
• María José López-Couso: "Looking into the history of namely: A story of ruthless competition"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: "'They have published a new cultural policy that just come out': Competing forms in spoken and written New Englishes"

23-24 May 2011: Lucía Loureiro-Porto gave an invited fifty-minute lecture at the symposium Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives, organized by Alain Peyraube and Salikoko S. Mufwene at the University of Lyon 2.

16-17 May 2011: Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Belén Méndez-Naya were invited speakers at the III Ciclo de Conferencias de Lingüística Histórica Inglesa organized by the University of Jaén. They lectured on the following topics, respectively:

• "Competition and grammaticalization of modal verbs and expressions in the history of English"
• "Finding medieval English patterns in the 2st Century"
• "A fascination for words: A journey through the Oxford English Dictionary"
• “'Feverish invention'”: Origin, development and competition of intensifiers in the history of English

15 April 2011: joint poster presentation by Samantha N. Emerson, Şeyda Özçalışkan, Gwen Frishkoff & Iria-Gael Romay-Fernández on "The role of gesture in word learning in English and Spanish", Georgia State University Language & Literacy Day, Atlanta, GA.

7-9 April 2011: III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus (CILC2011), Universidad Politéctica de Valencia:

• Fátima Faya: "Request markers in drama: Data from the Corpus of Irish English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Introducing the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports: Structure and compilation techniques"
• Iria-Gael Romay: "A preliminary study of neutral motion verbs in LOB and FLOB"

9-10 March 2011: XXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (University of Salamanca):

• Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: “Clause structure and speaker perspective: A preliminary analysis of the get-passive in Present-day spoken British English”
• Beatriz Mato-Míguez: "Las oraciones condicionales independientes en inglés británico hablado: estudio preliminar"

9 February 2011: Carlos Prado-Alonso gave a presentation on "A cognitive approach to Subject-dependent XVS word-order" at one of the meetings of the Syntax & Semantics Research Group of the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Edinburgh.

2 February 2011: at the symposium I Jornadas Doctorales de Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, University of Castilla-La Mancha), Fátima Faya presented a poster on "Marcadores pragmáticos en Inglés Moderno Tardío: de pray a please en el acto de habla de peticiones".

30 November 2010: Paula Rodríguez-Puente talked on “Some issues about English phrasal verbs” at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

25-27 November 2010: at the Seventh Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy) Nila Vázquez convened a thematic session on “Editing Middle English material in Spain”; she also delivered a paper on “Sociolinguistics and the edition of medieval manuscripts”.

23rd November 2010: invited research seminar by María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya on "At the crossroads of complementation and adverbial subordination: Intralinguistic and crosslinguistic considerations", SOAS Department of Linguistics, University of London.

16 November 2010: María José López-Couso gave a talk on "Tracing the early history of namely: From particulariser to marker of expository apposition" at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminars organized by the Dept. of Linguistics and English Languageof the University of Manchester.

11-13 November 2010: at GRAMIS (International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification), María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya presented a paper on “Evidential parentheticals with like in Present-day English: Grammaticalization and/or (inter)subjectification at work?”. The conference, held in Brussels, was co-organized by the Universities of Antwerp, Ghent, Hanover, Leuven, and Louvain-la-Neuve.

11-13 November 2010: 34th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Almería:

• Lucía Loureiro-Porto [with Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes, University of Jaén]: “On the adjectival-nominal cline: Some evidence from Old English”
• Paloma Núñez-Pertejo: “A preliminary study of absolutely in Late Modern English: Evidence from 18th- and 19th-century British and American English"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “I've talked to some hallmates which is studying Social Work": What New Englishes tell us about the history of English"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: "A transnational approach to South-East Asian Englishes: The case of Singapore and Hong-Kong"

22-23 October 2010: Carlos Prado-Alonso presented a paper on "Fixed word-order constructions in written and spoken English" at the symposium Fixed Phrases in English: Use and Rhetorical Strategies, University of Perpignan (France).

22-23 October 2010: Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras talked "On the role of language contact in the rise of exemplifying markers in English" at the Joint Advanced Studies Group in Linguistics (JASGIL) 2010, University of Basel.

20-22 October 2010: IV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular, University of the Balearic Islands. Lucía Loureiro-Porto delivered a paper on “La conversacionalización del lenguaje televisivo: el caso de Dexter".

12 October 2010: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez talked on "The origin and grammaticalisation of the intensifier deadly in English" at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

18-20 September 2010: Sixth International Gender and Language Association Conference, Tsuda College (Tokyo). Cristina Suárez-Gómez presented a paper, jointly with Laura Camargo-Fernández and Magdalena Romera-Ciria (Univ. of the Balearic Islands), on "The multimodal implicature: how gender is constructed through image and text in advertisements".

9-11 September 2010: 4th International Conference on Modality in English (ModE4), Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Lucía Loureiro-Porto presented a paper on “Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician”.

2-5 September 2010: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Vilnius (Lithuania):

• Lucía Loureiro-Porto & Johannes Kabatek (Tübingen), workshop convenors: "Modelling language contact: linguistic data and interdisciplinary approaches"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: “From clause to pragmatic marker: Developments in evidential complement constructions in Contemporary English”
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: "Rethinking apposition: Is inclusion a case of apposition?"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: “The expression of the perfect in Asian Englishes”

23-27 August 2010: 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL16), University of Pécs (Hungary):

• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: "The þurfan /need replacement: Has morphological productivity anything to do with it?"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: “I’ll ring you or I’ll ring you up: From directional adverb to derivational affix?”

30 June-3 July 2010: Mario Serrano-Losada, "A Critical Metaphor Analysis approach to the study of BODY OF WATER metaphors in the press coverage of the Iranian Green Revolution", 8th Conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association (RaAM): Metaphor and Domains of Discourse, VU University Amsterdam.

30 June 2010: Lucía Loureiro-Porto gave an invited talk on "Dinámica social en el contacto de lenguas: un enfoque interdisciplinar" at the colloquium Aktuelle Themen der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen.

26-30 May 2010: 31st Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 31), University of Giessen (Germany):

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "'Bot i þat es sa dedli dill': On the origin and development of the intensifier dead(ly)"
• Milagros Chao-Castro: "-lily adverbs in the history of the English language"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Looks like, seems like, sounds like: Emerging evidential markers?"
• Belén Méndez-Naya [with Päivi Pahta, Tampere]: "Intensifiers in competition: The picture from Early English medical writing"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: "Exemplifying markers in English: On the history of for example and for instance"

13-15 May 2010: 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), University of A Coruña:

• Zeltia Blanco-Suárez: "A corpus-based approach to the origin and development of the intensifier deadly in English"
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras:“For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day English: A corpus-based study”
• Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "I just come in Hong-Kong by myself: Tense in spoken Hong-Kong English"
• Vera Vázquez-López: "Doublets and nominalization in Early Modern scientific English"

16 April 2010: María José López-Couso gave an invited talk on "Grammar building: On the role of grammaticalization in language change" at the III Seminario Internacional 'Nuevos Enfoques en el Análisis Filológico de Textos', University of Murcia.

15-17 April 2010: XXVIII Congreso Internacional de AESLA (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Vigo:

• Fátima Faya: " Assessing game activities as review lessons in an ESP context"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "Phrasal verbs in Late Modern English: Evidence from ARCHER 3.1"

10-12 March 2010: Mario Serrano-Losada & Paula Pérez-Sobrino, "La marea verde: aproximación crítica al estudio de los procesos de conceptualización metafórica del 'conflicto' en la cobertura mediática de la Revolución Verde iraní", XXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Universidad de Valladolid.

1-3 February 2010: XXXIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Elena Seoane & Carlos Prado- Alonso: “The research project Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization”
• Fátima Faya [with Marcos García Salido]: “Estudio contrastivo de dos marcadores pragmáticos: please y por favor”

23-27 November 2009: at the international conference Darwin09, 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, held at the University of the Balearic Islands, Lucía Loureiro-Porto presented a poster, jointly with Xavi Castelló, Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel, on "Bilingualism, language death and language birth in language contact situations".

12-14 November 2009: at the 33rd AEDEAN Conference (University of Cádiz), Cristina Suárez-Gómez convened a workshop on “Recovering the Northern dialects in the early history of English”, with presentations by Cristina herself, Sara Pons-Sanz (University of Nottingham), Julia  Fernández-Cuesta (University of Seville), and Nieves Rodri­guez-Ledesma (University of Seville). Other presentations by members of the VLCG team included the following:

• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: “The origin and evolution of including and included as appositional markers of exemplification”
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Epistemicity and grammaticalization in English necessity verbs and verbo-nominal constructions”
• Nila Vázquez: "The future of global English"

30-31 October 2009: Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2), University of Vigo:

• María José López-Couso: "Developmental change in diachronic and ontogenetic grammaticalization: Existential there as a test case" [plenary lecture]
• Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: “On the grammaticalisation of including and included as markers of exemplification”
• Vera Vázquez-López: “Nominalizations in Early Modern English: Uses and development”

8-11 October 2009: presentation by Paula Rodríguez-Puente on “And new meanings turned up: The development of new meanings of English phrasal verbs with up. Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER1”. AACL 2009 - American Association for Corpus Linguistics, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

2-3 October 2009: presentation by Iria Pastor-Gómez on “Motivations for the use of N+N sequences in Present-Day English: An explanation beyond compactness”, First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1), University of Vigo.

1-3 October 2009: presentation by Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras on "Exemplifying constructions with including and included as markers: a case of apposition?", First Conference of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies, University of Salamanca.

22 September 2009: Vera Vázquez-López gave a 40-minute presentation on her PhD research on nominalization in English scientific writing at the linguistics seminar of the School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Tampere.

9-12 September 2009: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Lisbon:

• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "On the complementizer use of comparative subordinators in English: synchronic and diachronic aspects"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Local effects of global languages: evidence from language modelling” [with Xavi Castelló & Maxi San Miguel, CSIC-UIB]
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: “Spatial experiential iconic markers: the case of Full Inversion”
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: “English phrasal verbs as idiomatized and lexicalized units: a corpus-based study”

14-17 July 2009: Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE3), Institute of English Studies, University of London:

• María José López Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: “It seems like times are changing: on the use of as if, as though and like as complementizers in Contemporary English”
• Iria Pastor-Gómez: “Ambiguity in PDE nominal premodifiers: syntactic, semantic and categorial perspectives”
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: “The iconic function of verb-phrase full inversion in Contemporary English”

13-16 July 2009: presentation by Nila Vázquez on “Scribal mistakes in the text of Gamelyn”, International Medieval Congress (IMC 2009), University of Leeds.

13 July 2009: Cristina Suárez-Gómez participated in the summer course Voces disidentes y propuestas alternativas a la globalización en el mundo anglófono (University of the Balearic Islands) with a plenary presentation on “English yesterday, English today: globalization or multilingualism?”

5-9 July 2009: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics (MMECL), University of Innsbruck:

• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “The genesis of relative marker that in Middle English”
• Nila Vázquez: “A diachronic survey of shall in the Early Modern English Period: a corpus-based approach” [joint paper with Francisco Alonso-Almeida]

27-31 May 2009: 30th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 30), University of Lancaster:

• Milagros Chao: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg? On the word-formation processes involved in the origin of dual-form adverbs"
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "From literal to idiomatic: On the idiomatization of phrasal verbs"

7-9 May 2009: 1st International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC-09), University of Murcia:

• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “Development of dependent structures: an instance from the history of English”
• Nila Vázquez: “Modality and stance in the Modern English section of the Corpus of Early English Recipes” [joint paper with Francisco Alonso Almeida]

20-24 April 2009: invited seminar presentations by Nila Vázquez on "The influence of French upon English during the Middle Ages" and "How to produce a critical edition". Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland).

12 December 2008: invited presentations by several members of the team at the symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond, organized by Christian Mair at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS):

• Teresa Fanego: “Construction after construction: the history of English verbs of manner of motion”
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Low-frequency phenomena in the light of historical corpora: the case of minor declarative complementizers"

13-15 November 2008: 32nd International AEDEAN Conference, University of the Balearic Islands:

• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Myths and facts on the evolution of Early English impersonals: evidence from necessity verbs”
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: “How to define a phrasal verb? Testing the validity of structural criteria for the identification of phrasal verbs”

13 November 2008: invited seminar presentation by Nila Vázquez on "Editions and editors: the past and the present in textual editing". University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

8-11 October 2008: First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), University of Freiburg:

• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "On the margins of complementation: exploring complementizer choice in the history of English"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "The iconic function of verb-phrase full inversion in English"

2-4 October 2008: 20th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, University of Oviedo:

• Milagros Chao & Fátima Faya: "An ICT approach to historical linguistics: a Middle English roulette"

25-28 September 2008: presentation by Carlos Prado-Alonso on "A constructional analysis of full-verb inversion", Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5) , University of Texas at Austin.

24-30 August 2008: Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (15ICEHL; University of Munich):

• Teresa Fanego: “Diachrony and usage: The English manner verbs of human self-movement” [plenary lecture; see abstract]
• María José López-Couso & Anneli Meurman-Solin (Helsinki), convenors: Information structure and syntactic change [workshop]
• Fátima Faya: “Requests in the eighteenth century”
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: “'It looks as if it's a complementizer': On the origin and development of the minor declarative complementizers as if and as though”
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “'Ye had nede send a man by-fore, in all hast': The history of verbo-nominal expressions of necessity”
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “The replacement of the by that in the history of English"

4-8 August 2008: presentation by Cristina Suárez-Gómez on "Further evidence of the North-South divide in Old English", The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, University of Leeds.

16-19 July 2008: New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 (NRG4), University of Leuven:

• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “On the grammaticalization of the periphrastic modals of necessity in English”
• Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "The effects of lexicalization, grammaticalization and idiomatization on phrasal verbs in English: the case of phrasal combinations with get"

1-4 July 2008: plenary presentations by Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto at the Summer Course Espacios urbanos y expresión cultural: El inglés como lengua franca, University of the Balearic Islands. They lectured on the following topics, respectively:

• "La (des)territorialización del inglés: de lengua regional a lengua global ['The deterritorialization of English: from regional language to global language']
• "Vacunar las carpetas: cruzando fronteras políticas y lingüísticas" [‘Vacunar las carpetas (lit. 'Vaccinating the folders'): crossing political and linguistics borders’]

23-24 May 2008: presentation by Cristina Suárez-Gómez on “Development of dependent structures: An instance from the history of English”, DG 2008 - International Conference on Discourse and Grammar, University of Ghent.

14-18 May 2008: 29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 29), University of Zurich:

• Milagros Chao: "Dual-form adverbs and genre:  The figurative and literal use of adverbial variants"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "More on the complementizer use of if and though in the history of English"

3-5 April 2008: presentation by Paula Rodríguez-Puente on the topic "Is there a prototypical phrasal verb? On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization", XXVI AESLA Conference (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Almería.

2-4 April 2008: invited seminar presentations by Nila Vázquez on the topics "Dialectal variation in the 17th century: examples from the Corpus of Salamanca" and "The use of electronic resources in the class of historical linguistics". Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex.

27-28 March 2008: presentation by Cristina Suárez-Gómez on "The relevance of Northern dialects in the history of English", 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Salford, UK.

13-15 March 2008: AACL 2008 (Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah:

• Milagros Chao: "The OED as a corpus: Looking for dual-form adverbs"
• Iria Pastor-Gómez: "On the development of nouns as internal dependents in the contemporary English Noun Phrase"

11-15 March 2008: presentation by Lucía Loureiro Porto on “Modelling language competition: Bilingualism and complex social networks”, Evolang 2008 (7th Evolution of Language Conference), University of Barcelona [joint paper with X. Castelló, V.M. Eguíluz, M. San Miguel, R. Toivonen, J. Saramäki & K. Kaski].

14-17 November 2007: 31st International AEDEAN Conference, University of A Coruña:

• Milagros Chao: “The origin of dual-form adverbs: Grammaticalization or lexicalization?”
• Fátima Faya: "Who requests whom and how they do it: Use of request markers in Late Modern English letters"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Logical relations between necessity and possibility: Evidence from Old and Middle English”
• Iria Pastor: "N+N structures in Present-Day English word formation"
• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “Renewal of grammatical forms in the history of English”
• Nila Vázquez: "Non-finality effects in Middle English stress: Regularisation or emerging grammar?" [joint paper with Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa & Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy]

21-23 September 2007: presentation by Cristina Suárez-Gómez on “Dialectal diffusion of pragmatic markers in English” at Inter Litteras et Terras: International Conference on Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation and Cross-cultural Studies, Universitatea ‘Stefan cel Mare’ Suceava, Romania.

30 August-1 September 2007, 3rd Late Modern English Conference, University of Leiden:

• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "The declarative use of  complementizer how: Late Modern English in focus "

29 August-1 September 2007, 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Joensuu, Finland:

• Iria Pastor-Gómez: “Nominal premodifiers in noun phrase structure: Evidence from Contemporary English”
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "The pragmatic function of Full Inversion in English Press Reportage"

6-11 August 2007, 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 2007), University of Quebec at Montreal:

• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "Switchover of pronominal relativizers in the history of English"

7-11 July 2007: Nila Vázquez gave a paper on “Stages in the production of a scholarly critical edition” at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society, University of Salford, UK.

2-6 July 2007: plenary presentations by Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Cristina Suárez-Gómez at the summer course Centres i margis de la cultura anglòfona: Cinema, llengua i literatura [‘Centres and margins of anglophone culture: Cinema, language, literature’], University of the Balearic Islands:

• “Searching for centres on the margins: English language, creole languages, - national languages?”
• “The relevance of margins: Competition between the standard language and vernacular varieties”

2-4 July 2007: Beatriz Macía-Vega and John Payne (University of Manchester) presented a joint paper on “Do so” at the Second International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Toulouse-le Mirail. [abstract]

25 June 2007: presentation by Fátima Faya on “The competition between pragmatic markers: When and why did the courtesy marker please appear on the scene of requests?”, The 2nd Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

24-26 May 2007, Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies, University of Bergen, Norway:

• Cristina Suárez-Gómez: "Are Old English dialects syntactically different? Three versions of the Gospels"
• Lucía Loureiro-Porto: "It need not be so hard to figure out: Verbal epistemic necessity in the history of English"

23-27 May 2007, 28th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28, University of Central England, Stratford-upon-Avon):

• Milagros Chao: "On the origin and use of dual-form adverbs: A corpus-based study"
• Fátima Faya: "On the competition of the courtesy markers please, pray and if you please in the period 1850-1950: Evidence from ARCHER"
• María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Tracking down minor functions: A close look at the declarative complementizer how in the history of English"
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: "Noun phrase inversion in scientific discourse"

16-17 May 2007: invited presentations by María José López-Couso at the I Workshop on English Historical Linguistics, University of Jaén:

• "Understanding grammaticalization: On the emergence of grammatical forms and functions"
• "Child language acquisition as a window on diachronic change: Existential there as a test case"

9-13 May 2007: Nila Vázquez presented a paper on “Old and Midlle English texts online: Reviewed samples” at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI).

20 April 2007: poster presentation by Milagros Chao on "Short/shortly: A dual-form adverb which does not fall short of expectations", 16th International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester.

19-21 April 2007, XXV AESLA Conference (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Murcia:

• Milagros Chao: "The development of dual-form adverbs: late/lately"
• Iria Pastor-Gómez: "Lexicalization as a cline: A corpus-based study of English N+N structures"

19-20 January 2007: paper by Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, jointly with Ana Banesa Fernández-Granda (University of Santiago), on “The Spanish CMC Project”, XI AICLU Seminar, University of Calabria.

14-16 December 2006: at the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, held at the University of Huelva, Belén Méndez-Naya convened a very successful theme session on Historical Linguistics. It included presentations by Milagros Chao, Fátima Faya, María José López-Couso, Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Cristina Suárez-Gómez. At the same meeting Iria Pastor presented a paper in the theme session on Lexis.

5-7 October 2006, 18th SELIM Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, University of Málaga:

• María José López-Couso: “On the early history of namely: A lifetime of linguistic competition”.
• Belén Méndez-Naya: “On the history of downright”.
• Nila Vázquez: “Editing the Tale of Gamelyn: Steps and results”.

28 August-1 September 2006: two VLCG members presented papers at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bremen, Germany:

• Teresa Fanego: "Developments in English sentential complements: A processing-based explanation”.
• Carlos Prado-Alonso: “The iconic function of full inversion in fiction”.

21-25 August 2006: Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Lucía Loureiro, Belén Méndez-Naya and Cristina Suárez-Gómez presented papers at 14 ICEHL (Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), held at the University of Bergamo, Italy.


24-28 May 2006: joint paper by María José López-Couso and Javier Pérez-Guerra on "Negative contraction in Modern and Contemporary English: Simultaneous, intersecting and independent forces", 27th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 27 ), University of Helsinki.

24-27 April 2006: invited presentation by María José López-Couso and Nila Vázquez on “Herramientas informáticas aplicadas al estudio de la historia de la lengua inglesa”, I Seminario Nuevos Enfoques en el Análisis Filológico de Textos Ingleses, University of Murcia.

24-26 April 2006: paper by Lucía Loureiro-Porto on "Dan Michel's use of behove in Ayenbite of Inwit", First International IDEA Conference: “Studies in English”, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

6-8 April 2006: at DELS (Directions in English Language Studies), University of Manchester, Teresa Fanego gave a paper entitled “Gerund clauses are shorter. Or: Dispelling the myths about the semantic differences between subject gerundives and infinitivals”.

30 March-1 April 2006: joint paper by Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Ignacio Palacios (University of Santiago) on the topic “The CMC Project (Communicating in Multilingual Contexts): Aims and preliminary results”, XXIV AESLA Conference (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), National University of Distance Learning, Madrid.