Supervision and mentoring

- Postdoctoral fellows:

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

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

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

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

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

- PhD dissertations supervised (completed):

(1) February 1993: Ignacio Palacios, "An Analysis and appraisal of the current situation of EFL teaching in secondary and tertiary institutions in Spain from the perspectives of teachers and learners" [Extraordinary PhD Award]. Published as La enseñanza del inglés en España a debate: perspectivas de profesores y alumnos. (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1994. ISBN 8481211117). Ignacio is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the director of the research group SPERTUS (Spoken English Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants FFI2012-31450, FFI2014-51873-REDT, FFI2015-64057-P, PGC2018-093622-B-I00 and PID2021-122267NB-I00).

(2) October 1993: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña, “On so-called appositive structures in English” [Extraordinary PhD Award]. Published as The puzzle of apposition: On so-called appositive structures in English (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1996. ISBN 8481213942). Carlos is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the PI of various research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants SEJ2005-08911/PSIC, PSI2009/11748, PSI2012-32834, PSI2015-65116-P and PID2019-110583GB-100).

(3) October 1994: Mª José López-Couso, “Finite complementation in the works of John Dryden: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1995. ISBN 8481212083). María José is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the principal investigator of several projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2011-26693-C02-01, FFI2017-86884-P, PID2020-114604GB-100, PID2023-146887NB-I00).

(4) March 1995: Belén Méndez-Naya, “Finite complementation in Old English: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1995. ISBN 8481212881). Belén is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and, jointly with María José López Couso, the principal investigator of three projects (FFI2017-86884-P, PID2020-114604GB-100, PID2023-146887NB-I00) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

(5) November 1996: Elena Seoane, “The passive voice in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study” (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 1997. ISBN 8481215961). Elena is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project VIEW ("Morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes and compilation of resources for its study: the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English"), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants FFI2014-53930-P and FFI2017-82162-P).

(6) December 1996: María de los Ángeles Gómez-González, “A corpus-based approach to Theme in Present-day British English” [European Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award. Co-supervisor: Christopher S. Butler]. Published as The Theme-Topic interface: Evidence from English (Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. ISBN 9027250863). María de los Ángeles is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and has directed a number of research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants BFF2002-02441, HUM2007-62220, FFI2010-19380, FFI2013-40517-P and PID2019-105678RB-C21).

(7) April 1999: Javier Pérez-Guerra, “Thematic variation in English: A corpus-based study of the thematic organisation of English declarative sentences in the recent history of the language”. Published in LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics as Historical English syntax: A statistical corpus-based study on the organisation of Early Modern English sentences (Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 1999. ISBN 3895866512). Javier is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo and is the coordinator of the research unit Language Variation and Textual Categorisation, funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (grants BFF2001-3505, HUM2005-02351, FFI2009-11274, FFI2013-44065-P, FFI2016-77018-P, EQC2018-004934-P and PID2020-117541GB-I00).

(8) October 1999: Rosa Alonso, “Language transfer in interlanguage with special reference to adverbial placement” [co-supervisor: Ignacio Palacios]. Published as The role of transfer in second language acquisition (Universidad de Vigo: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2002. ISBN 8481582115). Rosa is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo and the Editor of VIAL (Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics).

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

(10) May 2000: Mar Viña-Rouco, “A history of modern language teaching in Spain (1800-1936), with special reference to English”. Published on microfiche (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2000). María del Mar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus).

(11) January 2001: Marina Pedreira-Vilariño, “The noun phrase: A comparative analysis of syntactic variation in news language”. Published on CD-Rom (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2001). Marina is the Director of the Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Sussex.

(12) April 2001: Juan Carlos García-Lorenzo, “Complementation in John Lyly’s English”. Published as Complementation in Early Modern English: A study of John Lyly’s Euphues (The Edwin Mellen Press UK, 2004. ISBN 0773462732). Juan Carlos is a tenured high-school teacher in Lugo.

(13) November 2001: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, “The progressive in the history of English, with special reference to the Early Modern English period”. Published with the same title in LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics (Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2004. ISBN 389586742X). Paloma is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(14) February 2004: Carmen Pena-Díaz, “Code alternation in a trilingual community: From pragmatics to grammar”. Published as Bilingual speech: A case study of a bilingual community (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006. ISBN 8481387061). Carmen is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcalá. Her main field of research is cross-linguistic and cross-cultural mediation.

(15) February 2007: Ana López-Sánchez, “From 'ways of speaking' to 'ways of being in the world': A contrastive analysis of request behaviour in Peninsular Spanish and American English: A comparison”. Ana is Associate Professor and Chair of Spanish at Haverford College, PA.

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

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

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

(19) June 2013: Vera Vázquez-López, "Action nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English" [co-supervisor: María José López-Couso]. Between 2008-2012 Vera was an FPU researcher at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(20) 17 December 2014: Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, "A semantic and syntactic approach to GET-constructions in World Englishes" [main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisors: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Elena Seoane]. Between 2009-2014 Eduardo was an FPU researcher (grant AP2009-3554, Spanish Ministry of Education) at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(21) 23 May 2016: Lauren Fonteyn, “Categoriality in language change: The case of the English gerund”, KU Leuven [main supervisor and promotor: Liesbet Heyvaert; co-promotor: Hendrik De Smet; supervisory committee: Hubert Cuyckens and Teresa Fanego]. PhD thesis published with the same title by Oxford University Press (2019. ISBN: 9780190917579). Lauren was a doctoral researcher of the FWO (Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders; grant no. G0A5412N); she is now a Lecturer in English Linguistics at Leiden University.

(22) 6 October 2016: Beatriz Mato-Míguez, "The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between insubordinated if-clauses, imperatives and conditionals in Contemporary Spoken British and American English" [co-supervisor: María José López-Couso]. Between 2012 and December 2015, Beatriz was an FPU researcher (grant AP2010-4570, Spanish Ministry of Education) at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

(23) 23 January 2018: Tamara Bouso, "Changes in argument structure in the history of English, with special reference to the emergence and development of reaction object constructions" [International Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award 2017-2018; co-supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya]. Published as Changes in argument structure. The transitivizing Reaction Object Construction (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4095-3). Tamara's PhD was funded by FPU grant 2012/01669 (2013-2017). She is now an Associate Professor ('Profesora Permanente Laboral') at the University of Santiago, after having held positions at the universities of Extremadura (2019) and the Balearic Islands (September 2019-August 2023).

(24) 22 June 2018: Mario Serrano-Losada, "Evidential and mirative expressions in English and Spanish: Grammaticalization and discourse functions" [International Doctorate; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya]. Between December 2013 and December 2017 Mario was an FPU researcher (grant 13/02618, Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports) at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela; he is now an Associate Professor ('Profesor Permanente Laboral') in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(25) 15 November 2018: Iván Tamaredo, "Processing grammatical structures: complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world, with special reference to pronoun omission" [International Doctorate, Extraordinary PhD Award 2018-2019; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña]. Published as Complexity, efficiency, and language contact: Pronoun omission in World Englishes (Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4066-3). Between November 2015 and September 2019 Iván was an FPI researcher (grant BES-2015-071233) at Santiago; he is now a Lecturer in English at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(26) 12 May 2020: Noelia Castro-Chao, "Changes in argument structure: Impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire. A corpus-based study" [International Doctorate; main supervisor: Teresa Fanego; co-supervisor: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Vigo]. Published as Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-0343-4189-9). Noelia has been an FPU researcher at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela (FPU grant 2014/03208; 28/10/2015 - 27/10/2019); she is now a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

(27) 22 October 2020: Cristina Lastres-López, “A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish: A corpus-based study” [International Doctorate; Extraordinary PhD Award 2020-2021]. Published as From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN 978-3-0343-4220-9). From 24/10/2016 to 28/09/2020 Cristina was based at the University of Santiago de Compostela on an FPU grant (ref. 2015/02519) from the Spanish Ministry of Universities; she is now a Lecturer in English at the Department of English Language of the University of Seville. 

- PhD dissertations (in progress):

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

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