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Associate Professor(Profesor Permanente Laboral)Office A-330.2Facultad de Filología - Edificio A
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I am an associate professor in the Department of English Studies: Language and Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the coordinator of the MA program in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication. I hold degrees in English and Spanish Philology from the University of Salamanca, an MA in Linguistics from the University of Barcelona, and a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, 2018). As a postgraduate student, I taught several English linguistics courses at Santiago de Compostela (2014-2017) and was a visiting fellow at KU Leuven and the University of Amsterdam. I also taught at the University of Cantabria (2018). Before joining UCM in the fall of 2019, I held a postdoc position at USC, which allowed me to conduct research as a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (2018-2019).
As a researcher, I am primarily interested in language variation and change, which I approach from the standpoint of cognitive and usage-based linguistics. My work has focused particularly on the emergence and development of evidential and mirative constructions, both in English and Spanish. I am a member of the USC research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG), established by Prof. Teresa Fanego and currently led by Prof. María José López Couso. My research has been published in journals like English Language and Linguistics (CUP), the Review of Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins) or the Journal of Historical Linguistics (Benjamins), and I am Section Editor for Historical Linguistics and Pragmatics for the peer-reviewed journal Open Linguistics (De Gruyter).