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Biographical data
Born in Madrid (Spain), 1978.
Current position: Professor, Institute of Language and Linguistics, University of Tromso
Academic biography:
- July 2000. Licenciado en Filología Española (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
Spanish Language and Literature Diploma.
Four years (360 academic credits, September 1996-July 2000).
Final qualification: 3,68 out of 4,00 (1 equals C, 2 equals B, 3 equals A and 4 equals A+).
- 2000-2001 / 2001-2002. Master in the Departamento de Filología Española (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset.
Master thesis: Gramática de los nombres de color en española actual / A grammar of colour terms in contemporary Spanish.
Supervisor: Profa. Dra. Soledad Varela Ortega (Departamento de Filología Española).
Qualification: Sobresaliente (A).
- 19 of december 2005: Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters (Subject: Spanish Language) (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset).
Dissertation: La definición de la categoría gramatical en una morfología orientada sintácticamente. Problemas de morfología española / The definition of the grammatical category in a syntactically oriented morphology.
Supervisor: Profa. Dra. Soledad Varela Ortega (Departamento de Filología Española).
Qualification: Sobresaliente cum laude (A cum laude).
Doctor Europeus dissertation.
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Research interests
Theoretical linguistics, syntax, semantics, phonology, "morphology". Spanish and compared grammar. Nanosyntax, distributed morphology, minimalism. Sociolinguistics
Forskningsprosjekter
I am affiliate to CASTL and I am part of the Lexicon project at UiT. Additionally, I participate or I have participated in the following research projects
A. As project leader.
Title of the project: “Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface”. Codes of the project: 199749/V11 (Aurora Project, in collaboration with Paris VIII and Lille 3) and 199852 (DAAD project, in collaboration with Stuttgart University).
Host institution: IS, Universitetet i Tromsø
Sponsoring institution: Norske Forskningsrådet.
Period: January 2010-December 2012.
B. As member of the research team
1) Official member of the research team.
Title of the research project: Léxico-sintaxis del español: clases de predicados verbales. BFF2003-06053 (Lexicon-syntax of Spanish: classes of verbal predicates).
Sponsoring institution: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología.
Host institution: Dpto. Filología Española, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Period: from December 2003 to December 2006
Short description: An attempt to characterise the semantic and formal properties of verb classes in Spanish, following the methodology used by Levin (1993) for English.
2) Official member of the research team.
Title of the project: BFF2000-1307-C03-02, “La variación macro y microparamétrica en la morfología y la sintaxis del español. Teoría, descripción, aplicaciones” (Macro- and microparametric variation in the morphology and the syntax. Theory, description and applications”.
Sponsoring institution: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología.
Host institutions: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Girona, Universidad del País Vasco
Period: from April 2002 to December 2003.
Short description: Research on different empirical phenomena, comparing systematically Spanish, Basque and Catalan and trying to determine the source of the differences and similarities between these languages.
3) Collaborator in the research team.
Title of the project: “Límites intercategoriales. Las categorías híbridas: teoría, descripción y aplicaciones” (HUM2004-04235-C02-01).
Sponsoring institution: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
Host institutions: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
Period: from December 2004 to December 2007.
Short description: Research on infinitives, gerunds, participles and cases of nominal conversion in Spanish and Galician.
4) Official member of the research team.
Title of the project: “Léxico, sintaxis y variación morfológica: las nominalizaciones deverbales” (FFI2008-00603).
Sponsoring institution: Ministerio de ciencia e innovación – FECYT.
Host institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Period: From October 2008 to present.
Short description: research on nominalizations and their distinctive properties in different varieties of Spanish.
5) FFI2011-23829. Sintaxis y semántica de las relaciones de predicación
CV
A Previous positions held.
- 1999-2000. Grant to collaborate in the Spanish Language and Literature Department / Beca de colaboración con el Departamento de Filología Española (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- 2000-december 2001. Grant for master studies in the Spanish Language and Literature Department / Beca de Tercer Ciclo. Departamento de Filología Española (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- 31 december 2001 to 31 december 2005. Ph.D at the Spanish Language and Literature Department (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- 1 february 2007 – 31st of December 2008. Post-doctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for research at the University i Tromsoe (Norway) and the University of Bologna (Italy).
B. Other professional experience.
- January-December 2006. Hired by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Language Academy) to collaborate in the writing of the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española / New Grammar of the Spanish Language.
- September 2008 – July 2009. Hired by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Language Academy) to revise and write several chapters of the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española.
- September 2009-April 2010. Hired by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Language Academy) to revise and write serveral chapters of the Manual de la Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española.
- June 2010-2011. Hired by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Language Acaemy) to write several chapters of the Gramática Básica de la Lengua Española.
C. Administrative work in the University and organisation of conferences.
- September 2000 to September 2007. Web master of Morfonet (Departamento de Filología Española, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- September 2001 to July 2003. Member of the board for the edition of the Cuadernos de Lingüística del Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset).
- September 2003 to July 2006. Director of the board for the edition of the the Cuadernos de Lingüística del Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset).
- September 2004 to July 2007. Secretary of the journal Edad de Oro (Departamento de Filología Española, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- September 2003 to July 2006. Member of the board for the organisation of the Annual International Conference Edad de Oro (Dpto. de Filología Española, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad de Castilla la Mancha).
- November 2008. Organiser of the workshop Words don´t come easy, University of Verona / University of Bologna.
- September 2009-June 2010. Organiser of the weekly CASTL Thursday Colloquium, Universitetet i Tromsø.
- February 2010. Organiser of the first workshop on Nominalizations, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- September 2010. Organiser of the ANPE Conference of Spanish as a Second Language Teaching, Universitetet i Tromsø.
- September 2010. Organiser of the Aurora /DAAD Prosjekter Meeting on Nominalizations, Universitetet i Tromsø.
- June 2011-present: academic coordinator of the Spanish group in Tromso
D. Research stays abroad.
- June-july 2003. Department of Language and Linguistics. University of Essex.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andrew Spencer.
- May-July 2004. Department of Language and Linguistics. Vrije Universitet Amsterdam.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Geert Booij.
- May-July 2005. Department of Language and Linguistics. Vrije Universitet Amsterdam.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Geert Booij.
- August-December 2008. Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Università degli Studi di Bologna. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sergio Scalise.
E. Associations.
- Member of the teacher staff of the Instituto Cervantes: november 2006 to 2009.
- Member of Morfonet (Group of research in the Morphology of Spanish): september 2000 to present.
- Member of RETEM (Spanish network of Spanish Morphologists): may 2005 to present.
- Member of Sociedad Española de Lingüística (Spanish Society of Linguistics): september 2001 to present.
- Member of Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (Spanish society of applied linguistics): January 2007 to present.
- Member of the Asociación de Jóvenes Historiadores e Historiógrafos de la Lengua Española (Association of young researchers on the history and historiography of the Spanish Language): March 2003 to present.
- Affiliate to CASTL (Universitetet I Tromsø): February 2007 to present.
- Member of ANPE (Asociación Noruega de Profesores de Español): February 2009 to present.
- Member of the Norsk Forskersforening: March 2010 to present.
F. Editor
Editor-in-chief of Borealis. An international journal of Hispanic Linguistics.
G. Reviewer
I have acted as reviewer, among other journals and publishing houses, for Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, The Linguistic Review, Oxford University Press and Studia Linguistica.
Interesser
In addition to all things linguistics, I am interested in cultural studies, psychology, cinema and literature.