Carlos Prado-Alonso works as Associate Professor (‘Titular de Universidad’) of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Oviedo. He holds an MA (2001) in English Language and Literature and a PhD (2008) in English Linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela, as well as a MA in Applied Foreign Languages and Management (2003). Between 2003 and 2008, he conducted research under an FPU grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

His university teaching and research career includes positions at the University of Vigo (2008), the University of Santiago de Compostela as a postdoctoral research fellow (2009–2012), and the University of Valencia as a Lecturer (2012–2015). Additionally, he has undertaken international research stays as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, and the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2012, his monograph Full-verb inversion in written and spoken English (Peter Lang, 2011) was awarded the prestigious ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics. From May 2019 to May 2025, he served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO).

His primary research focuses on functional, cognitive, and constructional approaches to the study of English word-order. More precisely, his published work covers the analysis of subject-verb inversion, verbal anaphora, parentheticals, and cleft constructions in Present-day English written and spoken texts. His academic interests also encompass the analysis of scientific English discourse.

Prado-Alonso, Carlos. 2025. Beyond information packaging: The case of adjective phrase inversion in learned and scientific exposition academic prose. English Studies 106. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2025.2466797

Prado-Alonso, Carlos. 2021. Speaker’s involvement in Press Reportage: The case of locative inversion. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 43(1). 221-242. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.12

Prado-Alonso, Carlos. 2021. Subject-auxiliary inversion in academic prose. Ibérica 42. 59-84.

Pérez-Lorido, Rodrigo, Carlos Prado-Alonso & Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.). 2020. Of ye olde English langage and texts: New perspectives on Old and Middle English language and literature (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 57). Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa & Wien: Peter Lang. ISBN: 9783631817957.

Complete list of publications

7-11 July 2025: “What-cleft constructions in academic prose» [poster], 50th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC 50), University of Glasgow (UK).

17-19 July 2024: “The use of adjective phrase inversion in learned and scientific exposition”, 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (CADS2024), University of Innsbruck (Austria).

15-17 May 2019: “Obligatory inversion in scientific texts”, 11th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2019), University of Valencia.

9-11 May 2018: “The verb-second subject-operator inverted construction”, 10th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), University of Extremadura (Cáceres).

31 May-2 June 2017: “On the endophoric, abstract and narrative nature of idiomatic do so in legal texts, journalistic texts and written correspondence”, 9th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC9), Université Paris Diderot (France).

13-15 July 2016: “The interpersonal meaning of and-parentheticals in British and American English newspapers”, 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistic Conference, University of Salzburg (Austria).

28-30 June 2016: “On the textual behaviour of idiomatic do so”, 7th Formulaic Research Network Conference, Vilnius University (Lithuania).

2-4 March 2016: “The that is parenthetical construction and the indirect expression of attitude in academic texts”, 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2016), University of Málaga.

3-6 December 2015: “A constructional map of obligatory XVS syntactic structures”, Cognitive Linguistics in Wroclaw Conference, University of Wroclaw (Poland).

11-13 November 2015: “The that-is parenthetical construction in written English”, 39th AEDEAN Conference, University of Deusto (Bilbao).