Gemma Plaza Tejedor
Contact information
gemmapla@ucm.es
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Gemma Plaza Tejedor holds a BA in English Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, an MA in English Linguistics from UNED, and an MA in English Teaching from UNED.
As an undergraduate student, she developed an interest in corpus analysis and historical linguistics, having focused on Modern English, precisely the Late Modern English period. Her BA dissertation consisted of a corpus study on negative constructions in the Modern English period, which granted her a first with honors. For her MA dissertation, she carried out a corpus analysis of perfect constructions in nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian English.
She is currently working on her PhD dissertation, which is titled 'A corpus-based study on the language of school logbooks in East Anglia at the turn of the 20th century (1862-1914)'. This study aims at analysing the language used in school logbooks, precisely the words and expressions used to refer to the children enrolled in different types of schools and what the choice of words may tell us about the conceptualisation of childhood at the time.
Publications
- Plaza Tejedor, G. (2015). I know not of any reason why I should use do: on the structure of negative statements in modern English correspondence. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 3, 67-87. https://
estudiosinterlinguisticos. files.wordpress.com/2015/12/ 03plazatejedor.pdf - Plaza Tejedor, G. (2020). The development of perfect auxiliary verbs be and have in Early Australian English (1788-1937): a corpus study. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 8, 193-208. https://
estudiosinterlinguisticos. files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ plaza-tejedor-gemma.pdf
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Plaza Tejedor, G. (2017, September 22). Bilingualism in children with Down Syndrome. UPCEL 2017, Madrid.
- Plaza Tejedor, G. (2019, September 20). The regularisation of irregular past participles in perfect constructions in 19th century Australian English. XXXIV Congreso Internacional de la AJL, Valencia.
- Plaza Tejedor, G. (2020, January 29). ‘He is gone to the diggings’: the sociolinguistics behind perfect auxiliaries in nineteenth-century Australia. UPCEL 2020, Madrid.