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Corral Esteban, Avelino

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Despacho:
VI bis - 205
email:
avelino.corral@uam.es
Teléfono:
91 497 2087
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Avelino Corral Esteban is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He teaches courses on English syntax, semantics, and contrastive linguistics in different degrees (English Studies and Modern Languages), a course on the Asturian language, and a course on information structure in a Master´s Degree in English Applied Linguistics. He holds a PhD from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), a BA in English Philology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a BA in German Philology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His main areas of research cover the interaction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics across languages, with a focus on Native American, Romance, Germanic, and Celtic languages. He has participated in research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, and the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival in the USA, and he leads the Honóxease Project, whose aim is to foster the preservation and revitalization of the Cheyenne language.  He also received a Phillips Fund grant for Native American Research and two Benjamin Franklin grants from the American Philosophical Society.  He is the author of one book (published by Routledge), 11 book chapters, published by Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, John Benjamins, Peter Lang, and Routledge, and more than 25 research articles, which have appeared in major linguistics journals (Acta Linguistica Academica, Journal of Language Contact, and Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, RESLA, WORD, and Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, English for Specific Purposes, etc.). He is also the editor of two books (published by Peter Lang) and the co-editor of two books (Peter Lang and Comares).

Investigación

Áreas de especialización

Sintaxis, semántica, pragmática, lingüística comparada, tipología lingüística

Proyectos
  • 2021-2024. Project: Erasmus+ KA3 “VALIANT: Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers” 626134-EPP-1-2020-2-ESEPPKA3-PIPOLICY, Erasmus+ KA3 (EACEA/38/2019): Priority 3. European Commission. Main researcher: Dr. Robert O´Dowd (University of Leon). https://valiantproject.eu/
  • 2020-2023. Project: “TRADILEX: Audiovisual translation as a didactic resource in Foreign Language Learning” (PID2019-107362GA-I00). Main researcher: Dr. Noa Talaván Zanón (UNED). Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.https://tradit.uned.es/
  • 2019-2021. Project: “VELCOME: Intercambios virtuales para el aprendizaje y desarrollo de competencias en aulas EMI” (“VELCOME: Virtual Exchanges for the Learning and development of COMpetences in EMI classrooms”) (RTI2018-094601-B-I00). Main researcher: Dr. Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
  • 2016-2018. Project: "Desarrollo de un laboratorio virtual para el procesamiento computacional del lenguaje natural desde un paradigma funcional” (“Development of a virtual laboratory for natural language processing from a functional paradigm") (FFI2011-53788-C3-1-P). Main researcher: Dr Ricardo Mairal Usón. Financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. http://www.seconds.edu.es/es
  • 2016-2017. Project “Long-term histories of grammatical traditions”, University of Oxford. Main researcher: Dr Philomen Probert. Financed by The Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (AH/M011291/1).
  • 2015-2017. Project: "Redes telecolaborativas para el desarrollo de las competencias transversales en la Educación Superior” (“Telecollaborative networks for the development of transversal competences in Higher Education”) (EDU2014-54673-R). Main researcher: Dr Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. http://www.uamvirtual.es/TELNETCOM/
  • 2012-2015. Project: "Desarrollo de un sistema de representación semántico-conceptual y su implementación en un algoritmo de enlace bidireccional sintaxis-semántica" (“Development of a system of semantic-conceptual representation and its implementation in a bidirectional syntax- semantics linking algorithm”) (FFI2011-29798-C02-01). Main researcher: Dr Ricardo Mairal Usón. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. http://www.seconds.edu.es/es
  • 2012-2014. Project: “Tšʰumaš Transcription Project". Main researcher: Matthew Vestuto. The Barbareño / Ventureño Band of Mission Indians, California, USA. Financed by the The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS). http://www.aicls.org/#!about/c1tr.

 

Líneas de investigación

Lingüística comparada, Interfaz sintaxis-semántica-pragmática, Tipología lingüística, Lenguas nativas norteamericanas

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