Research Team

SENIOR RESEARCH STAFF

MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ

Co-ordinator of SCIMITAR
Position: Full Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: English Department, University of Santiago de Compostela, Avda. Castelao s/n, E-15704 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: mdelosangeles.gomez@usc.es
Web site: www.usc.es/scimitar/mdlagg/
Areas of Research: Discourse Studies, Functional Grammars, Contrastive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics

J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE

Research manager of SCIMITAR
Position: Honorary Professor of Functional Linguistics
Institution: VU University Amsterdam and ILTEC, Lisbon
Postal address: Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional, Avenida Elias Garcia 147 - 5 dto, 1050-199 Lisboa, Portugal
E-mail: lachlan_mackenzie@hotmail.com
Web site: www.lachlanmackenzie.info
Areas of Research: Functional Discourse Grammar; the Analysis of Western European Languages

CHRISTOPHER STUART BUTLER
Position: Honorary Professor
Institution: Swansea University, UK
Postal address: Applied Linguistics, School of Arts, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
(not to be used for correspondence)
E-mail: cbutler@ntlworld.com
Web site: none
Areas of Research: Functional Linguistics; Corpus-Based Descriptions of Languages, especially English and Spanish; Use of Statistical Techniques in Language Study

MIKE HANNAY
Position: Full Professor of English Language
Institution: VU University Amsterdam
Postal address: Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
E-mail: m.hannay@let.vu.nl
Web site: click here
Areas of Research: Functional Discourse Grammar; contrastive linguistics and learner language

LUIS IGLESIAS RÁBADE
Position: Full Professor in the History of the English Language
Head, Dept of English Philology
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: luis.iglesias.rabade@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: History of the English Language: Old English and Middle English; socio-historical linguistics; grammaticalization and idiomatization; phraseology; collocations

MAITE TABOADA
Position: Associate Professor (tenured)
Institution: Simon Fraser University
Postal address: Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada
E-mail: mtaboada@sfu.ca
Web site: www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/
Areas of Research: Discourse Analysis, Coherence Relations, Subjectivity, Anaphora

FRANCISCO GONZÁLVEZ-GARCÍA
Position: Profesor Titular de Universidad - Associate Professor (tenured)
Institution: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de Almería, Spain
Postal address: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, La Cañada de San Urbano, s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain
E-mail: fgonza@ual.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Cognitive-Functional Space, Construction Grammar(s), the Syntax-Semantics Interface

MARÍA DOLORES GÓMEZ PENAS
Position: Senior Lecturer (Profesora Titular de Universidad)
Institution: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Avda. de Castelao, s/n E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: mariadolores.gomez@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: Discourse analysis, English phonetics and phonology

ELSA M. GONZÁLEZ-ÁLVAREZ
Position: Tenured Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultad CC Educación (Campus Norte) - Xoan XXIII s/n 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: elsa.gonzalez@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: Second Language Acquisition

ANDREW ROLLINGS
Position: Profesor Contradado Doctor - Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultad de Filología (Univ. de Santiago), Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), Spain
E-mail: andrewgeorge.rollings@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: English Spelling

SUSANA MARÍA DOVAL SUÁREZ
Position: Tenured Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: susanamaria.doval@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: English Orthography, Second Language Acquisition, Contrastive Linguistics

MARÍA TERESA SÁNCHEZ ROURA
Position: Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: mteresa.sanchez.roura@usc.es
Web site: none
Areas of Research: Discourse Analysis, Historical Pragmatics

JUNIOR RESEARCHERS

MILAGROS TORRADO CESPON
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: milagros.torrado@usc.es
Web site: none
Area of Research: Folklore, customs and traditions.

INA GUSTIUC
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: ina.gustiuc@gmail.com
Web site: none
Area of Research: Research on coherence relations in English and Spanish editorials (supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González)

ANA PATRICIA GARCÍA VARELA
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: anapatriciagarciavarela@yahoo.es
Web site: none
Area of Research: PhD research on Theme and thematic progression in English and Spanish journalistic discourse (supervisors: María de los Ángeles Gómez González and María Teresa Sánchez Roura)

LOURDES JUNCAL SOAGE
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: l_juncal@hotmail.com
Web site: none
Area of Research: PhD research on evaluative discourse markers in English and Spanish (supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González)

LUCÍA GIL IGLESIAS
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: lucregil@hotmail.com
Web site: none
Area of Research: PhD research on English tag questions and their Spanish equivalents (supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González)

MARÍA TERESA LORENZO PENEDO
Position: Junior Researcher
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Postal address: Facultade de Filoloxía, Avda. de Castelao s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: teresalorenzo79@yahoo.com
Web site: none
Area of Research: PhD research on lexical cohesion in Present-Day English (supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González)