Conferences

19-21/12/11 Butler, C. S. Course: “Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to quantitative studies”. Universidad de Málaga

17-18/11/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Participation in “ULICES Advisory Committee”, Universidade de Lisboa

10/11/11 Gómez-González, M. Á., Conference at Universidade da Coruña (UDC) invited by English department of UDC

10/11/11 Gómez-González, M. Á. Plenary lecture. English Phonetics for Spanish Learners at "Ciclo de Conferencias New Trends in English Studies". Universidade da Coruña

10/11/11 Sánchez Roura, M. T. Plenary Lecture. Functions of Intonation at "Ciclo de Conferencias New Trends in English Studies". Universidade da Coruña.

01/11/11 Hannay, M.. One day workshop: ‘English punctuation for translators and editors’, Society of English Editors.

30/10/11 González-Álvarez, E. and S. Doval Suárez, Presentation: “The use of it-clefts in the written production of Spanish advanced learnes of English”, in 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Berlín

28/10/11 Gómez-González, M. Á., Part of the scientific committee: “Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML)”, Scientific Research Publishing, (California, USA)

24-28/10/11 Butler, C. S. Course: “Statistics for linguistics” University of Bergen, Norway.

7-8/10/11 Gómez González, M. Á. Presentation: “Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and functional approaches”. University of Gante, Belgium

7-8/10/11 Gonzálvez-García, F. Presentation: “Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and functional approaches”. University of Gante, Belgium

01/10/11 Taboada, M. and M. Carretero Lecture: “Appraisal in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies: A contrastive study of the expression of Graduation within the scope of Attitude” in Int-Eval, International Workshop on the Evaluative Function of Language. Madrid, Spain.

10-11/09/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Participation in “44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Logroño

08/09/11 Butler, C. S. Discussant: “Societas Lingüística Europaea”, Universidad de Logroño

8-11/09/11 Gonzálvez-García, F.. Presentation at the workshop “Construction Grammar beyond English: observational and experimental approaches”, directed by S. Th. Gries & J. Yoon: “What snowclones reveal about actual language use in Spanish: A constructionist view” 44 Congreso Internacional de Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Universidad de La Rioja, Spain

8-9/09/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Talking about “Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar”, and 'The Contextual Component in a dialogic FDG' Universitat de Barcelona

8-9/09/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Lecture in collaboration with K. Hengeveld, in “Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar”: 'Grammar and context in Functional Discourse Grammar', Universitat de Barcelona

27/09/11 Gonzálvez-García, F.. Invited speaker: “What Construction Grammar(s) can do for Contrastive (English-Spanish) Linguistics”. Universidad de Copenhague, Denmark

07/09/11 Gonzálvez-García, F.. Invited speaker by Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja: “On the lexicon-grammar continuum in Construction Grammar(s)”. Universidad de La Rioja, Spain

07/09/11 Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. Gonzálvez-García. Presentation in the workshop “The Lexical Constructional Model”, directed by Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez: “The illocutionary value of the subjective-transitive constructions in English: A viewfrom the Lexical Constructional Model” 44 Congreso Internacional de Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) . Universidad de La Rioja, Spain

5-9/09/11 Doval Suárez, S. Participation and part of the organizing committee of “First Santiago International Workshop on Discourse Analysis” (IWoDA 11), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

5-9-/09/11 García Varela, A. P.. Participation and part of the organizing committee of “First Santiago International Workshop on Discourse Analysis” (IWoDA 11) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

5-9/09/11 Gómez González, M. Á. Participation and part of the organizing committee of “First Santiago International Workshop on Discourse Analysis” (IWoDA 11), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

5-9/09/11 González-Álvarez,E.. Participation and secretary of “First Santiago International Workshop on Discourse Analysis” (IWoDA 11) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

5-7/09/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Participation in the IWODA workshop, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

5-6/09/11 Butler, C. S. Course: “Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to statistical techniques”. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

01/09/11 Hannay, M. and M. Á. Gómez González. Presentation: “Thematic parentheticals in Dutch and English”. ‘Discourse on Tuesday’, University of Utrecht

28/07/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Plenary conference in “38th International Systemic Congress” 'Functional Discourse Grammar and nominalizations', Universidade de Lisboa

13/07/11 Gonzálvez-García, F. . Conference: “The illocutionary dimension of the ‘manipulative subjective-transitive’ construction: a view from the Lexical Constructional Model&rdquo Heinrich-Hein-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.

12/07/11 Gonzálvez-García, F., Conference: “Functional-Cognitive Space in the 21st Century: An Overview” Heinrich-Hein-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.

01/07/11 Taboada, M. and M. Carretero Lecture: “Annotating Appraisal: contrastive issues raised in the analysis of consumer reviews in English and Spanish” in38th International Systemic Functional Linguistic Congress. Lisbon, Portugal.

13-15/06/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Three-day course: 'Understanding English grammar from the angle of psycholinguistics and dialogue analysis' Universidade de Vigo

03/06/11 Butler, C. S. Inaugural Lecture: “form and Function in Molecular Biology, Language and Music” University of Huddersfield

26-27/05/11 Mackenzie, J. L., Plenary lecture Três Lagoas, MS, Brazil: 'A adequação cognitiva na génese e no futuro da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional'

7-9/05/11 García Varela, A. P.. Presentation: “When police arrived at the scene” Or “han venido dos policías”: on Theme and Thematic Progression in news reports” in III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, Universitat de Valencia

5-9/11/11 Juncal Soage, Lourdes, Participation and part of the organizing committee of “First Santiago International Workshop on Discourse Analysis”. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

4-6/05/11 Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. Gonzálvez-García,Presentation: “The illocutionary dimension of the ‘manipulative subjective-transitive’ construction: a view from the Lexical Constructional Model” XXIX Congreso Internacional de AESLA. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

4-6/5/2011 Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. García-Gonzálvez. Lecture: 'Tú sí que sabes: Towards a better understanding of the discourse-pragmatics facets of contrastive focus constructions in Spanish' to the XXIX AESLA International Conference, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

1-10/04/11 Gómez-González, M. Á., Visiting professor at the Linguistic and Language Department of University of York (United Kingdom).Sessions given: (1) ‘Information packaging strategies’, (2) ‘Cohesion & Coherence’, and (3) ‘English and Spanish Phonetics’

7-9/04/11 Gómez-González, M. Á., Part of the organizing committee and part of the scientific committee: “Third International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (ICLC3)”, Universitat Politécnia de Valencia.

7-9/4/2011 - Gómez González, M. Á. was on the Scientific Committee and Convenor of the Panel entitled 'Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies' for the Third International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2011), held at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).

7-9/04/11 Gonzálvez-García, F. Presentation:“The grammar-discourse interface revisited within Contrastive Construction Grammar: The case of focus constructions in English and Spanish” CILC 2011 - III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus. (pending publication). Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain

7-9/04/11 Juncal Soage, L., Presentation: “A contrastive study of adverbs of certainty as discourse markers in spoken English and Spanish”, International Conference on Corpora Linguistics. Universitat de Valencia

01/03/11 Hannay, M.. One day workshop: ‘Information packaging’, Society for English Editors, Utrecht.

08/02/11 Gonzálvez-García, F. Invited speaker: “What Construction Grammar(s) can do for Contrastive (English-Spanish) Linguistics” In the program: “Distinguished Lecture Series” University of North Texas, EEUU.

07/02/11 Gonzálvez-García,F. Invited speaker by the Departament of Germanic Studies (Prof. Hans. C. Boas): “Words as constructions: Some reflections from a contrastive (English-Spanish) perspective”. University of Austin, Texas, EEUU.

22/01/11 Mackenzie, J. L. Invited speaker at the Société Linguistique de Paris: 'Functional Discourse Grammar'

11-12/01/11 Butler, C. S. Course: “Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to quantitative studies”. Universidad de Málaga, Spain

1-3/12/2010 - García-Gonzálvez, F. performed various activities at the V Taller Teórico Internacional de Filosofia de la Mente y Neurociencias/II Encuentro Latinamericano del Grupo Internacional de Estudios de Cognición, Lenguaje, Identidad e Relaciones Humananas (GLIRh) at the Universidade Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú: a talk 'Las relaciones entre el pensamiento y las palabras: Algunas reflexiones a la luz de los enfoques construccionistas', a talk 'De vuelta a las construcciones: del programa minimalista a la(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones' and another talk 'La Sintaxis Más Simple de Jackendoff: hacia una solución de compromisso entre los modelos sintácticocentricos y los modelos semánticocentricos'.

4-6/11/2010 - García-Gonzálvez, F. gave the talk 'Tú sí que sabes: Towards a better understanding of the discourse-pragmatics facets of contrastive focus constructions in Spanish' to the High Desert Linguistics Society 9, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. He also gave a poster 'Constructional integration in the Lexical Constructional Model' to the same society.

1-2/10/2010 - García-Gonzálvez, F. gave the talk 'Reconstructing the notion of construction: From Goldberg's Construction Grammar to the Lexical Constructional Model' to the 7th International AELCO Conference at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

30/9/2010/-2/10/2010 - Gómez González, M. Á. was on the Scientific Committee of the 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference held in Berlin (Germany) and, together with Maite Taboada, there convened the thematic section 'Discourse analysis and contrastive linguistics: From research to applications'. Among the papers given there by SCIMITAR members were: García Varela, A. P., 'Theme and Thematic Progression in English & Spanish journalistic discourse'; Hannay, M. and Gómez González, M. Á., 'Thematic parentheticals in English and Dutch'; Taboada, M. and Gómez González, M. Á., 'Discourse markers and coherence relations: Comparison across markers, languages and modalities'; Taboada, M. and Carretero, M. 'Labelling evaluative language in English and Spanish: The case of Attitude in consumer reviews'; and González-Álvarez, E. and Doval Suárez, S., 'The use of it-clefts in the written production of Spanish advanced learners of English'.

9-11/9/2010 - Gómez González, M. Á. was on the Scientific Committee of the conference Modality in English 4 in Madrid (Spain). The programme included the following presentation: Marta Carretero and Maite Taboada, 'The annotation of Appraisal: How Attitude and epistemic modality overlap'.

18-23/7/2010 - Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada gave the talk 'Contribution of (non)veridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse' to the 37th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress in Vancouver (Canada).

9-12/7/2010 - Carretero, M. and M. Taboada gave the talk 'Products, consumers and evaluation: a proposal of solutions to problematic issues of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews' to the 22nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop at the University of Primorska (Slovenia).

Invitations

7-8/10/2011 - Gonzálvez-García, F. was invited to give the talk Construction Grammar(s) in the present-day functional-cognitive scenario at the meeting of the Ghent research network "Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and Functional Approaches" held in the University of Ghent (Belgium).

29/09/11 Gonzálvez-García, F. read the paper “On the syntax-lexicon continuum in Construction Grammar(s)” as an invited speaker at the Meeting of the Functional Grammar Group at the University of Copenhague (Denmark)

28/09/2011 Gonzálvez-García, F. read the paper "Análisis conversacional, objectos directos y predicativos de los objectos directos en español hablado: nuevas perspectivas desde la gramática de construcciones " as an invited speaker at the Meeting of the Functional Grammar Group at the University of Copenhaguen (Denmark)

25-29/7/2011 - Mackenzie, J. L. was one of the plenary speakers at the 38th International Systemic Congress being held in Lisbon (Portugal).

25-27/5/2011 - Mackenzie, J. L. was a plenary speaker at the First Simpósio Internacional de Linguística Funcional held in Três Lagoas MS (Brazil).

1-10/5/2011 - Gómez González; M. Á. was invited to teach a seminar on the Grammar-Discourse Interface at the University of York (Department of English Language and Linguistics) (UK).

22/1/2011 - Mackenzie, J. L. was invited to present a paper on Functional Discourse Grammar to the Société Linguistique de Paris.

15/11/2010 - Hannay, M. was invited to give a workshop in Luxembourg entitled 'Translation theory and translation practice: information packaging' for translators of all the language sections of the European Commission.

11-13/11/2010 - Gonzálvez-García, F. was invited to give the talk 'Expecting the unexpected? Some notes on the versatility of expect in present-day English' at the University of Verona (Italy).

7-8/10/2010 - Gonzálvez-García, F. was invited to give the talk 'La palabra en la(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones: De la Morfología a la Sintaxis y la Semántica' at the Sylex 2 Conference at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).

Postgraduate Courses

6-7/6/2011 - Mackenzie, J. L. gave a postgraduate course at the University of Vigo (Spain).

4-8/8/2010 - Mackenzie, J. L. gave a postgraduate course in Functional Discourse Grammar at the Pavol Jozef Safárik University of Kosice, Slovakia.

Master's and Doctoral Examinations

Gonzálvez-García, F. supervised Alba Luzondo Oyón's doctoral thesis "Cpnstrucciones resultativas del inglés en el modelo léxico construccional: implicaciones para la modelación construccional en una base de conocimiento conceptual" graded summa cum laude at the Universidad de La Rioja

24/6/2011 -Mackenzie, J. L. examined Alice da Cruz's thesis "Fonologia e Gramática do Nheengatú: A língua geral falada pelos povos Baré, Warekena e Baniwa"; and Zoraide dos Anjos Gonçalves da Silva's "Fonologia e Gramática Katukina-Kanamari" at VU University Amsterdam.

24/2/2011 -Mackenzie, J. L. examined Josine Schrickx's thesis "Lateinische epistemische Partikeln: Nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet und nimirum" at VU University Amsterdam.

8/10/2010 - Mackenzie, J. L. was on the assessment panel for Matt Coler's doctoral thesis, "Grammatical description of Muylaq' Aymara" at VU University Amsterdam.

3/9/2010 -Juncal Soage, L. was examined on her TIT thesis, "A corpus-based study of adverbial usage in English and Spanish" at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

14/7/2010 -García Varela, A. P. was examined on her MA thesis "Thematic structure and the organization of journalistic discourse in English and Spanish" at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Mark = 10/10.

Forthcoming Publications

Gómez-González, M. Á. To appear. Review of Contrastive Pragmatics by Karin Aijmer (ed). Languages in Contrast. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins

Gómez Penas, M. D. and M. A. Fraga Fuentes, to apear. Gender and Discourse on Stage in Experiencing Gender. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva.

Taboada, M., S. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez (eds.), to appear. Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives. London: Equinox.

Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada, to appear. The contribution of nonveridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse. In Applied Linguistics

Mackenzie, J. L. and E. Martínez Caro, to appear. Compare and Contrast: A Grammar of English for Speakers of Spanish. Granada: Comares

Mackenzie, J. L., to appear. Review of E. Smirnova and T. Mortelmans, Funxtionale Grammatik: Konzepte und Theorien (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin). Functions of Language 19.1.

Hengeveld, K. and J. L. Mackenzie, to appear. La grammaire fonctionnelle-discursive: stratification et interfaces. In Jacques François (ed.), L'architecture des théories linguistiques, les modules et leurs interfaces (Mémoires de la Societé Linguistique de Paris 20). Louvain: Peeters.

Butler, C. and F. Gonzálvez García, to appear. El espacio funcional-cognitivo: Una visión panorámica. In J. Valenzuela Manzanares and I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (eds), Manual de Lingüística Cognitiva. Barcelona: Anthropos.

Doval-Suárez, S.M. and E. González Álvarez, in press. Take + Noun Sequences in Native and Learner Written Data. RæL 10.

García Velasco, D., K. Hengeveld and J.L. Mackenzie, to appear. Epilogue: Dynamic morphosyntax in Functional Discourse Grammar. Language Sciences.

Gómez González, M. Á., in press. The question of tag questions in English and Spanish. In I. Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño and B. Crespo (eds), Encoding the Past, Decoding The Future: Corpora in the 21st Century. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholarly Press. 1-30.

Gonzálvez García, F., to appear. La(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones. In J. Valenzuela Manzanares and I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (eds), Manual de Lingüística Cognitiva. Barcelona: Anthropos.

Hannay, M. and M.Á. Gómez González, to appear. Thematic parentheticals in English and Dutch. In M. Taboada, S. Doval-Suárez and E. González-Álvarez (eds), Discourse Analysis and Contrastive Linguistics, London: Equinox (provisional details).

Mackenzie, J.L. and E. Martínez Caro, to appear. Compare and Contrast: A Grammar of English for Speakers of Spanish. Granada: Comares.

Mackenzie, J.L., to appear. Cognitive adequacy in a dialogic Functional Discourse Grammar. Language Sciences.

Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M. Stede, to appear. Lexicon-based methods for sentiment analysis. Computational Linguistics.

Taboada, M. and M.Á. Gómez González, to appear. Discourse markers and coherence relations: comparison across markers, languages and modalities. In M. Taboada, S. Doval-Suárez and E. González-Álvarez (eds), Discourse Analysis and Contrastive Linguistics, London: Equinox (provisional details).

Workshops

8-9/9/2011 Mackenzie, J. L. is speaking at the Workshop on the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar to be organized in Barcelona, Spain

5-9/9/2011 - SdC IWODA 1 - 2011 (First Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis), organized by the research groups SCIMITAR and Discourse & Identity, will be held in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Further details on the programme in http://www.usc.es/congresos/iwoda

5-9/09/11 Gómez-González, M. Á., Part of the organizing committee and president of the scientific committee: “First Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDA’11), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

March 2011 - Hannay, M. gave a one-day workshop for the Dutch Society of English Editors on information packaging and sentence quality.

29/11/2010-17/12/2010 - Mackenzie, J. L. gave a postgraduate workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar at the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo at the São José do Rio Preto Campus, Brazil.

24-28/8/2010 - Mackenzie, J. L. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García participated actively in the ESSE 10 Conference in Turin (Italy): Mackenzie co-convened the seminar 'Recent changes in English and their implications for teaching and assessment' and acted as discussant for the seminar 'Construction Grammar meets Cognitive Semantics', a seminar co-convened by Gonzálvez-García, F, who himself contributed to the latter with a talk entitled 'Surprise, surprise! Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon from a contrastive (English-Spanish) perspective', given together with Alicia Galera Masegosa. Gonzálvez-García also participated in a round table entitled 'Doctoral Studies in Europe: Focus on International Cooperation'.

Others

Gonzálvez-García, F. was appointed member of the organising committee of the "First International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation: LCM and FunGramKB" to be held in the Universidad Nacional a Distancia in Madrid on 4-6 july 2012

Gonzálvez-García, F. is, since February 2012, member of the scientific committee of the Borealis, an International Journal of Spanish Linguistics

To honour Christopher S. Butler's exceptional contribution to SCIMITAR and to linguistics in general, Gómez González, M. Á, Gonzálvez García, F. and Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. (Univ. of La Rioja) are currently preparing a Festschrift whose appearance is to coincide with Prof. Butler's 70th birthday.

3/5/2011 - Butler, C. S. performed the inaugural lecture-recital for Visiting Professorship 'Structure and function in molecular biology, language and music', with piano performance, at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Butler, C. S. is also still Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Butler, C. S. continues to act as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

1/4-31/12/2010 - Taboada, M. ended her period working on parsing discourse relations in multimodal material with Professors Christopher Habel and Juliane House at the University of Hamburg, Germany on the basis of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.