Cristina Suárez Gómez

Date: December 16, 2022

Time: 16:30

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BIO

Cristina Suárez-Gómez received her PhD in English Linguistics (European Doctorate) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Title: Relativisation in Early English (with special reference to the distribution of relativisers and the position of relative clauses) and she obtained a position as Lecturer in English at the Department of Spanish and Modern and Classical Languages of the University of the Balearic Islands, where she has been Senior Lecturer since 2010. In November 2021 she passed the national examination qualifying her for promotion to a chair in English Language and Linguistics. Her main fields of specialization are morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes, pragmatics, grammaticalization theory, English dialectal variation from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective and contact Englishes, and the compilation of corpora like ICE-Gibraltar. Cristina was the Principal Investigator of the project "Morphosyntactic variation in New Englishes", under funding from the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (grant FFI2011-26693-C02-02). Together with Lucía Loureiro-Porto, she is the PI of a project on morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-117030GB-I00, 2021-2024).

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http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/cristinasuarez

Theoretical and methodological tools in World Englishes

The unprecedented spread of English has led to the development of new vernaculars, usually referred to as ‘World Englishes’. These varieties offer huge research potential in a variety of fields (e.g. sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, second-language acquisition, etc.), and have also become the testing ground for various frameworks and research traditions, including corpus linguistics. A number of theoretical models have been suggested in the literature to categorize the form and function of the different World Englishes, which will be applied in this presentation to the varieties spoken in Gibraltar and Bangladesh. Within World Englishes, crucial aspects of language evolution through the study of grammatical phenomena in specific varieties of English, or by comparing and contrasting a range of varieties, have also been explored. This will be shown with the study of a selection of morphosyntactic variables in different varieties all around the world, based on corpus data from the ICE (International Corpus of English), and also on the results obtained through other methodological tools such as questionnaires and judgement tests.

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