Iván Tamaredo holds a BA in English Language and Literature (June 2012) and an MA in English Studies (July 2013) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He defended his PhD in 2018, under funding from a four-year FPI research grant (ref. BES-2015-071233) from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. His PhD advisors were Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña.

Iván has worked as a postdoctoral fellow (November 2018–September 2019) at Santiago, on a competitive grant funded by the State Research Agency, as a part-time Lecturer (October 2019–August 2020) at the University of Vigo and as Lecturer at the University of Salamanca (2020–2021). He now holds a position as Senior Lecturer in English (‘Profesor Permanente Laboral’) at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Iván has experience in the compilation and tagging of digital corpora; he has helped the VLCG team elaborate the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR) in its two versions (POS-tagged and XML). He has also been involved in the organization of research meetings, such as the Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4), held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 4–6 February 2015.

As a postgraduate student and as a postdoctoral researcher, he has carried out research at the University of Freiburg, Germany (March–May 2017), at the Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven (June 2017), at the University of Vigo (October 2018) and at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro Regional de Braga (July 2019).

His research interests include (i) the quantitative study of morphosyntactic variation in dialects of English around the world, with special attention to the internal and external linguistic factors that determine the alternation between two or more semantically equivalent structures; and (ii) the influence of linguistic complexity and communicative efficiency on the oral and written production of the speakers of varieties of English worldwide.

Pettersson-Traba, Daniela, Maria Gkoutziomitrou & Iván Tamaredo. 2026. Language variation in the linguistics classroom: Improving university students’ attitudes through targeted instruction. Journal of English Studies 24. 267-303. https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.6883

Tamaredo, Iván. 2025, ahead of print. Testing lexical specificity hypotheses in world Englishes: Evidence from the null subject alternation. Folia Linguistica, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2025-0073

Tamaredo, Iván. 2024. Clause initial null subjects in web-based written language: An analysis of eight varieties of English. International Journal of English Studies 24(2). 81-105. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.584081 

Tamaredo, Iván. 2024. Review of Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Jason Grafmiller, Comparative variation analysis: Grammatical alternations in World Englishes (Studies in Language Variation and Change). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781108491563. English Language and Linguistics 29(1). 209-215. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000133 

Complete list of publications

1-4 September 2025: “Productivity and prototypicality: A cross-varietal investigation of the null subject alternation”, ISLE8 (8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Santiago de Compostela.

15-17 May 2025: “Distributional semantics meets sociolinguistics: A study of language attitudes among Spanish students” [with Daniela Pettersson-Traba] and “Distributional semantics meets sociolinguistics: A study of language attitudes among Spanish students” [with Mario Serrano-Losada], 16th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, University of Salamanca.

22-24 May 2024: “Allostructions along the Dynamic Model: Lexical specificity in the variable expression of pronominal subjects”, 15th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2024), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

10-12 May 2023: “A variationist approach to subject omission: Null and overt subjects in eight varieties of English” and De la teoría a los datos y de los datos a la teoría: Aplicaciones estadísticas en lingüística de corpus [Round table with Pascual Cantos, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena & Daniela Pettersson-Traba], 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics – CILC 2023, University of Oviedo.

16-18 November 2022: “Null subjects on the web: An exploratory study using GloWbE”,  45th AEDEAN Conference, University of Extremadura.

27-29 April 2022: “Operationalizing lexical specificity: A comparison of collostructional and regression modelling methods”, AESLA 2022 (International Conference of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

24-26 November 2021: “Schematicity versus concreteness in constructional representations: Lexical specificity across varieties of English”, 44th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Cantabria.

13-15 November 2019: “Measuring linguistic distance in World Englishes: Subject pronoun deletion in spoken and written language”, 43rd AEDEAN Conference, University of Alicante.

1-5 June 2019: “The TEI-XML annotation of the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999” [poster, with Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Cristina Blanco-García), ICAME 40, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

15-17 May 2019: “Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999: TEI-XML annotated version” [with Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego & Cristina Blanco-García] and “Probabilistic grammars across registers and modes: Pronominal subject expression in some varieties of English”, CILC2019, University of Valencia.