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Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature
Faculty of Philology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Avda. Complutense s/n
E-28040 Madrid, SPAIN
E-mail: mario.serrano@ucm.es
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Serrano-Losada, Mario. 2025. Review of Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ten lectures on a diachronic constructionalist approach to Discourse Structuring Markers (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 27). Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2022. ISBN: 9789004506909. English Language and Linguistics 29(2). 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674324000224
Serrano-Losada, Mario & Daniela Pettersson-Traba. 2024. Mind, language and society: Theoretical and descriptive approaches in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11(1). 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00109.ser
Serrano-Losada, Mario & Daniela Pettersson-Traba (eds.). 2024. Cognitive approaches to mind, language and society: Theory and description. Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.11.1
Serrano-Losada, Mario. 2023. Un paradigma en potencia: los verbos de ascenso evidenciales y admirativos en la historia del inglés. Revista Española de Lingüística 53(1). 147-178. https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.53.1.7
Serrano-Losada, Mario. 2023. Spoiler alert, this is no spoiler: Mirativity, assumption and irony at play. In Juana I. Marín Arrese & Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla (eds.), Stance, inter/subjectivity and identity in discourse, 479-501. Bern: Peter Lang.
18-20 November 2026: “From direct to assumed evidence: Of course and obviously across Early and Late Modern English” [with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez], 49th AEDEAN Conference, Jaume I University, Castellón.
30 September-2 October 2026: “Constructional analogy and the development of evidential and mirative as-parentheticals in English”, Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges, University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry (France).
1-4 September 2025: “Global trends, local patterns: A corpus-based study of end up constructions across World Englishes”, ISLE8 (8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Santiago de Compostela.
26-29 August 2025: “Mirative constructions on the rise: The development of end up and wind up in the recent diachrony of English” [paper within the Workshop Turn out verbs and constructions crosslinguistically: Properties and boundaries, synchrony and diachrony, convened by Patrick Dendale & Ana Stulic], 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France).
15-17 May 2025: “Distributional semantics meets sociolinguistics: A study of language attitudes among Spanish students” [with Iván Tamaredo], 16th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, University of Salamanca.
2-4 October 2024: “So he wound up there, and thought he’d make a new start: On the rise and development of mirative wind up”, 8th International Conference on Late Modern English, University of Salamanca.
22-24 May 2024: “Change in motion: On the rise and development of mirative wind up”, 15th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2024), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
18 January 2024: “Change in progress: Exploring the emergence of evidential and mirative strategies in the history of English” [invited lecture], Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan).
23-25 October 2023: “Open Woodclap and learn: El uso de plataformas digitales para fomentar el aprendizaje activo en el aula universitaria” [poster, with Inés de la Villa Vecilla & Iván Tamaredo]. El papel de las universidades en los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible: innovación docente y experiencias significativas, Complutense University of Madrid.
16-18 November 2022: “But, plot twist, he’s not single!: On the rise of parenthetical plot twist in recent English” and “Mirative extensions in discourse-pragmatic markers: A crosslinguistic study of finally and in the end in the EuroParl Parallel Corpus” [with Daniela Pettersson-Traba], 45th AEDEAN Conference, University of Extremadura.