Current Research in Applied Linguistics

Paula Rodriguez-Puente is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Cantabria and a member of the Research Unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her research interests include (historical) linguistics, sociolinguistics, and grammaticalization and lexicalization processes.Teresa Fanego has been Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela since 1990, and is the coordinator of the research network English Linguistics Circle, responsible for the organization of the ELC3 Conference.Evelyn Gandon-Chapela holds an MA in English Linguistics from the University of Vigo, where she is a member of the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation research group. Her research focuses on grammatical change in the recent history of the English language. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation on post-auxiliary ellipsis from early modern to present-day English.Sara Maria Riveiro-Outeiral holds an MA in English Linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is an active member of the research group Cognitive Processes and Behaviour at the same University. She is currently working on her PhD thesis entitled "The syntax-semantics interface in the production of number agreement: A crosslinguistic perspective", which will be defended in 2014.Maria Luisa Roca-Varela holds a PhD from the University of Santiago. She is a member of the Spoken English Research Team at the same university. Her main research interests include EFL teaching, corpus linguistics and CLIL programmes. Luisa has carried out research at the universities of Birmingham (England) and Swansea (Wales) and collaborated in national and international research projects.