AEDEAN Treasurer:
Dr. Belén Méndez Naya
Profesora Titular de Universidad (Full time lecturer)
Department of English and German, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Member of the research group Variation Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (http://www.usc-vlcg.es/)
Academic degrees:
Recent Publications:
(forthcoming). "On the use of as if, as though and like in Present-Day English complementation structures". Journal of English Linguistics [joint paper with María José López-Couso].
(2011). “Late Modern English syntax”. In Historical Linguistics of English: An international handbook, ed. by Alexander Bergs & Laurel J. Brinton. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [joint chapter with Bas Aarts & María José López-Couso].
(2010). "Intensifiers in competition: The picture from early English medical writing". In Early Modern English medical texts: Corpus description and studies, ed. by Irma Taavitsainen & Päivi Pahta. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 193-215 [joint chapter with Päivi Pahta].
(2010). Review of Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.) Connectives in the history of English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007). Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11/1: 155-163.
(2008). “On the history of downright”. In Méndez-Naya, ed. English intensifiers. Special issue, English Language and Linguistics 12.2: 267-287.
(2008). "'The which is most and right harde to answere': Intensifying right and most in earlier English". In English Historical Linguistics 2006. Vol. II: Lexical and semantic change, ed. by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti & Marina Dossena. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 31-51.
(2007). "He nas nat right fat: On the origin and development of the intensifier right". In Studies in Middle English forms and meanings, ed. by Gabriella Mazzon. (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 19). Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 191-207.
(2006). "Adjunct, modifier, discourse marker: On the various functions of right in the history of English." Folia Linguistica Historica 27: 141-169.
(2003). "On intensifiers and grammaticalization: The case of swiþe". English Studies 84:372-391.
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Contact address:
Depto. de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá
Facultade de Filoloxía
Avda. Castelao s/n
15782 Santiago de Compostela
Tel.: +34 981563100 ext. 11902
Fax: +34 981574646
e-mail: belen.mendez@usc.es