VLCG
Variation, linguistic change and grammaticalization
Supervised theses (18) Theses supervised by group members
2023
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Ephemerality in adverbial subordinators: A corpus-based study of causal, conditional and concessive conjunctions in Middle and Modern English
Cristina Blanco García
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO
2022
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Warfare as a catalyst for lexico-semantic change from late old english to middle english: a study of norse and french influences on the semantic field of war
Serrano Menero, Pau
Supervised by PAULA RODRIGUEZ ABRUÑEIRAS
2021
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A corpus-based study on near-synonymy: the concept pleasant smelling in 19th- and 20th-century american english
Pettersson Traba, Daniela Beatriz
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO -
The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: a formal and functional approach
Pérez González, Alba
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO
2020
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Changes in argument structure: impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire: a corpus-based study
Castro Chao, Noelia
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA -
A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si constructions in English, French and Spanish: A corpus-based study
Lastres López, Cristina
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA
2018
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Changes in argument structure in the history of English, with special reference to the emergence and development of reaction object constructions
Bouso Rivas, Tamara
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA y MARIA BELEN MENDEZ NAYA -
Processing grammatical structures: Morphosyntactic complexity and efficiency in varieties of english around the world with special reference to pronoun omission
Tamaredo Meira, Iván
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA y JUAN CARLOS ACUÑA FARIÑA -
Evidential and mirative expressions in english and spanish: Grammaticalization and discourse functions
Serrano Losada, Mario
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA y MARIA BELEN MENDEZ NAYA
2017
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Death-related intensifiers in the history of the English language: grammaticalisation and other proccesses of language change
Blanco Suárez, Zeltia
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO
2016
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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
Mato Míguez, Beatriz
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO y MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA
2015
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Exemplifying markers in english: synchronic and diachronic considerations
Rodríguez Abruñeiras, Paula
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO
2014
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A semantic and syntatic approach to get constructions in world englishes
Coto Villalibre , Eduardo
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA y MARIA PALOMA NUÑEZ PERTEJO
2013
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The development of phrasal verbs in British English from 1650 to 1990: A corpus-based study
RODRÍGUEZ PUENTE, PAULA
Supervised by MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO -
Courtesy markers in requests: the case of pray and please in late modern english
Faya Cerqueiro , Fátima María
Supervised by MARIA BELEN MENDEZ NAYA -
Action nominalizations in early modern scientific english
Vázquez López, Vera
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA y MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO
2010
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Aspects of expressive strength reduction in british english and castilian spanish: a corpus-based analysis
Villar Conde, Natalia
Supervised by MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA
2009
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Nominal modifiers in noun phrase structure: evidence from contemporary english
PASTOR GÓMEZ, IRIA
Supervised by JUAN CARLOS ACUÑA FARIÑA y MARIA TERESA FANEGO LEMA