Jump to content

Teresa Fanego

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Teresa Fanego is a Spanish linguist specializing in the history of English.[1]

Education, career and honours

[edit]

Fanego initially studied Germanic philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, receiving her PhD in English linguistics from the same institution in 1978 after a year spent studying at University College London on a British Council scholarship (1975–76).[1][2][3] She has spent her whole career at the University of Santiago de Compostela, first as lecturer, then as associate professor (from 1984) and finally as full professor (from 1990).[1]

Between 2005 and 2013, Fanego served as editor-in-chief of the Societas Linguistica Europaea's journal Folia Linguistica.[2] In 2017 she was elected member of the Academia Europaea.[1] In 2018 she was the recipient of a double festschrift containing contributions by David Denison and Raymond Hickey among many others.[4]

Research

[edit]

Fanego's research has focused on the history of English, with a special focus on syntax, Early Modern English, and the language of Shakespeare.[1] She was an early adopter of corpus-linguistic methods in historical linguistics, with research interests in corpus design, compilation and types as well as corpus-based studies of grammatical variation.[2] Her work on the development of the English gerund is widely cited.[5] She has further research interests in the morphosyntax of contemporary English, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar.[1]

Selected publications

[edit]
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1990. Finite complement clauses in Shakespeare's English, I. Studia Neophilologica 62 (1), 3-21. doi:10.1080/00393279008588036
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1996. The development of gerunds as objects of subject-control verbs in English (1400-1760). Diachronica 13 (1), 29–62. doi:10.1075/dia.13.1.03fan
  • Fanego, Teresa. 1996. The gerund in early Modern English: evidence from the Helsinki Corpus. Folia Linguistica Historica 30, 97–152. doi:10.1515/flih.1996.17.1-2.97
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2004. On reanalysis and actualization in syntactic change: The rise and development of English verbal gerunds. Diachronica 21 (1), 5-55. doi:10.1075/dia.21.1.03fan
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2012. Motion events in English: The emergence and diachrony of manner salience from Old English to Late Modern English. Folia Linguistica Historica 46, 29–86. doi:10.1515/flih.2012.003

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f "Teresa Fanego". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Teresa Fanego". aelinco. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Teresa Fanego". AESLA. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  4. ^ "ELC teams pay tribute to Professor Teresa Fanego". Universidade de Vigo. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Teresa Fanego". Google Scholar. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
[edit]