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PhD Dissertations

Cristina Blanco-García

Pau Serrano Menero

Alba Pérez González

Daniela Pettersson-Traba

Cristina Lastres-López

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras

Eduardo Coto-Villalibre

Lauren Fonteyn

Fátima Faya

Paula Rodríguez-Puente

Pilar Castillo-González

Cristina Suárez-Gómez

Paloma Núñez-Pertejo

Juan Carlos García-Lorenzo

Marina Pedreira-Vilariño

Mar Viña-Rouco

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero

Rosa Alonso

Javier Pérez-Guerra

María de los Ángeles Gómez-González

Belén Méndez-Naya

María José López-Couso

Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Ignacio Palacios-Martínez

MA Dissertations

Chloe Louise Pennington

Exploring ongoing language variation and change: The role of Gen Z.

September 2026

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya

Suzy Henriques Fraga

A diachronic corpus-based approach to Northern English lexis.

September 2018

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya.

Idoya Cancelas León

Exploring verbal complementation profiles in World Englishes. Ditransitive and transfer-caused-motion patterns in Indian and British English.

July 2018

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego and Elena Seoane

Raúl Río Fernández

Exploring the parallels between ontogenetic and diachronic grammaticalization: The emerging modal wanna in American English as a case in point.

September 2017

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Magdalena Bakowska

Semantic change and intensification: A study of four fear-related adjectives.

July 2017

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Noelia Castro-Chao

Changes in argument structure: Developments in impersonal constructions since Late Middle English. A preliminary corpus-based study.

September 2015

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego

Alberto Monteagudo

A preliminary approach to linguistic accretion in English: Comparatives in Contemporary American English as a case in point.

September 2015

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Noelia Ozores

Variation and competition of intensifiers in Philippine English.

September 2015

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Daniela Pettersson

A preliminary corpus-based diachronic analysis of the behavioral profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English.

September 2015

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Iván Tamaredo

A study of the relation between linguistic complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world.

July 2013

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Tamara Bouso

Reaction object constructions in Contemporary American English: A preliminary corpus-based study.

September 2012

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya

Aleksandra Kaverina

A preliminary corpus-based study of reformulation markers in contemporary written English.

September 2012

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Alba Iglesias Vázquez

The emerging modal wanna.

September 2012

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya

Zeltia Blanco-Suárez

A diachronic approach to intensifiers in English: Deadly as a case in point.

January 2012

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Cristina Blanco-García

Ephemeral adverbial subordinators in the Early Modern English period: Concession as a case in point.

September 2011

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

María José Coto-Díaz

In terms of in terms of grammaticalization: On the connective use of in terms of.

September 2011

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Tania de Dios

Intransitivity revisited: A corpus-based study of verbs used without an object in Contemporary English.

September 2011

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Beatriz Mato-Míguez

A preliminary approach to isolated if-clauses in Contemporary English.

March 2011

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Vera Vázquez-López

Nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English: Structural and functional perspectives.

June 2010

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso and Carlos Prado-Alonso

Eduardo Coto-Villalibre

A corpus-based approach to get-passives in Contemporary Spoken English.

June 2010

Supervisor:

Elena Seoane

Susana Matos Daparte

A corpus-based approach to dare in Late Modern English.

June 2010

Supervisor:

Elena Seoane

Iria-Gael Romay

A preliminary study of motion verbs in English: Evidence from LOB and FLOB.

July 2009

Supervisor:

Paloma Núñez-Pertejo

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras

Including and included as appositive markers of exemplification: A prototypical case of apposition?

April 2009

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Paula Rodríguez-Puente

On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization: Phrasal verbs with get as a test case.

October 2007

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Iria Pastor

N+N structures in Present-day English: Function and development.

September 2006

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego

Fátima Faya

On the origin and development of the courtesy marker please: A corpus-based analysis.

July 2006

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Milagros Chao

On the origin and use of dual-form adverbs: A corpus-based approach.

May 2006

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Beatriz Macía-Vega

A corpus-based approach to the variation between who and whom in Contemporary Written and Spoken English.

July 2004

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Carlos Prado-Alonso

Inversion in Present-day British and American English: An analysis based on the matching FLOB and Frown corpora.

April 2004

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego

Héctor Agrafojo

A corpus-based approach to the evolution of English semi-auxiliary verbs: The case of be supposed to.

April 2003

Supervisor:

Elena Seoane

Lucía Loureiro-Porto

A corpus-based approach to verbs expressing necessity in Old English.

January 2002

Supervisor:

Elena Seoane

Pilar Castillo-González

Uncontracted negatives and negative contractions in Contemporary Written English: A corpus-based study.

September 2001

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Montserrat Nolasco

Adverbial intensification in Early Modern English.

June 2001

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego

Rosa María Cougil-Álvarez

A corpus-based approach to the diachronic evolution of just in English (1380–1780).

April 2001

Supervisor:

Elena Seoane

Anabel González-Cruz

Semantic change in adverbial subordination: The case of while-clauses.

February 2001

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

Ana Navalpotro

On the existence of a proximative gram in OE: The willan construction.

March 2000

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Nila Vázquez

Young Gamelyn of the Canterbury Tales. A first approach to the Petworth MS version: Transcription, translation, glossary and notes.

March 2000

Supervisor:

María José López-Couso

José Javier Rivas-Rodríguez

A non-discrete approach to the Accusative and Infinitive Construction: The view of linguistic typology.

June 1999

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Cristina Suárez-Gómez

A descriptive analysis of relative clauses in Old English and their process of clause combination.

June 1999

Supervisor:

Belén Méndez-Naya

Carmen Río-Rey

Relativizer variation in existential and non-existential sentences: The Middle and Early Modern English periods.

April 1999

Supervisor:

Teresa Fanego

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