DISSERTATIONS

PhD Dissertations
MA Dissertations
Suzy Henriques Fraga
01/09/2018
Suzy Henriques Fraga, “A diachronic corpus-based approach to Northern English lexis”.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Idoya Cancelas León
18/07/2018
Idoya Cancelas León, Exploring verbal complementation profiles in World Englishes. Ditransitive and transfer-caused-motion patterns in Indian and British English.

Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Elena Seoane.

Raúl Río Fernández
17/09/2017
Raúl Río Fernández, Exploring the parallels between ontogenetic and diachronic grammaticalization: The emerging modal wanna in American English as a case in point.

Supervisor: María José López Couso.

Magdalena Bakowska
17/07/2017
Magdalena Bakowska, Semantic change and intensification: A study of four fear-related adjectives.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Milagros Chao
06/05/2016
Milagros Chao, On the origin and use of dual-form adverbs: A corpus-based approach.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Noelia Castro-Chao
15/09/2015
Noelia Castro-Chao, Changes in argument structure: developments in impersonal constructions since Late Middle English. A preliminary corpus-based study.

Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

Alberto Monteagudo
15/09/2015
Alberto Monteagudo, A preliminary approach to linguistic accretion in English: comparatives in Contemporary American English as a case in point.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Noelia Ozores
15/09/2015
Noelia Ozores, Variation and competition of intensifiers in Philippine English.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Daniela Pettersson
15/09/2015
Daniela Pettersson, A preliminary corpus-based diachronic analysis of the behavioral profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Iván Tamaredo
13/07/2013
Iván Tamaredo, A study of the relation between linguistic complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world.

Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña.

Tamara Bouso
12/09/2012
Tamara Bouso, Reaction object constructions in Contemporary American English: A preliminary corpus-based study.

Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya.

Aleksandra Kaverina
12/09/2012
Aleksandra Kaverina, A preliminary corpus-based study of reformulation markers in contemporary written English.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Alba Iglesias Vázquez
12/09/2012
Alba Iglesias Vázquez, The emerging modal wanna.

Supervisors: María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya

Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
29/01/2012
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, A diachronic approach to intensifiers in English: Deadly as a case in point.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Cristina Blanco-García
11/09/2011
Cristina Blanco-García, Ephemeral adverbial subordinators in the Early Modern English period: Concession as a case in point.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

María José Coto-Díaz
11/09/2011
María José Coto-Díaz, 'In terms of' in terms of grammaticalization: On the connective use of 'in terms of'.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Tania de Dios
11/09/2011
Tania de Dios, Intransitivity revisited: A corpus-based study of verbs used without an object in Contemporary English.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Beatriz Mato-Míguez
11/03/2011
Beatriz Mato-Míguez, A preliminary approach to isolated if-clauses in Contemporary English.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Vera Vázquez-López
10/06/2010
Vera Vázquez-López, Nominalizations in Early Modern scientific English: Structural and functional perspectives.

Supervisors: María José López-Couso & Carlos Prado-Alonso.

Eduardo Coto-Villalibre
10/06/2010
Eduardo Coto-Villalibre,A corpus-based approach to get-passives in Contemporary Spoken English.

Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

Susana Matos Daparte
10/06/2010
Susana Matos Daparte, A corpus-based approach to darein Late Modern English.

Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

Iria-Gael Romay
09/07/2009
Iria-Gael Romay, A preliminary study of motion verbs in English: Evidence from LOB and FLOB.

Supervisor: Paloma Núñez-Pertejo.

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
29/04/2009
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Including and included as appositive markers of exemplification: A prototypical case of apposition?

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Paula Rodríguez-Puente
07/10/2007
Paula Rodríguez-Puente, On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization: Phrasal verbs with getas a test case.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Iria Pastor
06/09/2006
Iria Pastor, N+N structures in Present-day English: Function and development.

Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

Fátima Faya
06/07/2006
Fátima Faya,On the origin and development of the courtesy marker please: A corpus-based analysis.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Milagros Chao
04/05/2006
On the origin and use of dual-form adverbs: A corpus-based approach.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Beatriz Macía-Vega
04/07/2004
Beatriz Macía-Vega, A corpus-based approach to the variation between whoand whomin Contemporary Written and Spoken English.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Carlos Prado-Alonso
29/04/2004
Carlos Prado-Alonso, Inversion in Present-day British and American English: An analysis based on the matching FLOB and Frown corpora.

Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

Héctor Agrafojo
29/04/2003
Héctor Agrafojo, A corpus-based approach to the evolution of English semi-auxiliary verbs: The case of be supposed to.

Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

Lucía Loureiro-Porto
29/01/2002
Lucía Loureiro-Porto, A corpus-based approach to verbs expressing necessity in Old English.

Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

Pilar Castillo-González
01/09/2001
Pilar Castillo-González, Uncontracted negatives and negative contractions in Contemporary Written English: A corpus-based study.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Montserrat Nolasco
01/06/2001
Montserrat Nolasco, Adverbial intensification in Early Modern English.

Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

Rosa María Cougil-Álvarez
29/04/2001
Rosa María Cougil-Álvarez, A corpus-based approach to the diachronic evolution of just in English (1380-1780).

Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

Anabel González-Cruz
01/02/2001
Anabel González-Cruz,Semantic change in adverbial subordination: The case of while-clauses.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Nila Vázquez
29/03/2000
Nila Vázquez, Young Gamelyn of the Canterbury Tales. A first approach to the Petworth MS version: Transcription, translation, glossary and notes.

Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Ana Navalpotro
01/03/2000
Ana Navalpotro,On the existence of a proximative gram in OE: The willanconstruction.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

José Javier Rivas-Rodríguez
03/07/1999
José Javier Rivas-Rodríguez, A non-discrete approach to the Accusative and Infinitive Construction: The view of linguistic typology.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Cristina Suárez-Gómez
01/06/1999
Cristina Suárez-Gómez, A descriptive analysis of relative clauses in Old English and their process of clause combination.

Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Carmen Río-Rey
29/04/1999
Carmen Río-Rey, Relativizer variation in existential and non-existential sentences: The Middle and Early Modern English periods.

Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

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