Teresa Fanego

  • University of Santiago de Compostela

  • Facultad de FilologíaE-15782Santiago de CompostelaEspaña

  • E-mail: teresa.fanego@usc.es

Campos científicos de interés

  • Sociolingüística
  • Pragmática
  • Análisis del discurso
  • Lingüística de corpus, computacional e ingeniería lingüística

Palabras clave de la investigación desarrollada

  • historical linguistics
  • grammaticalization
  • cognitive linguistics
  • corpus linguistics
  • legal and parliamentary discourse

Palabras clave de la transferencia del conocimiento desarrollada

  • CHELAR - Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (ISBN: 978-84-608-8006-6)

Información

I work as a Full Professor (Emeritus) of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I studied Germanic Philology in Santiago de Compostela and specialized (1975/1976) in English Linguistics at University College London, on a British Council scholarship. After completing my doctorate (Extraordinary PhD Award, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 1980), I was appointed (1984) Associate Professor of English at Santiago de Compostela and since May 1990 I hold the chair in English Language and Linguistics.

Since 1991 I have been the director of the research unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG). The unit carries out internationally recognised corpus-based research on grammatical change in the history of English and on changes going on in Present-day English; on a broader level, we are also interested in typological issues, with a focus on cognitive-functional linguistics, grammaticalization and (Diachronic) Construction Grammar.  

LINKS TO RELEVANT RESEARCH:

http://www.usc-teresafanego.es/
http://www.usc-vlcg.es/
http://elc.org.es/