Short Curriculum Vitae

J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña,
carlos.acuna.farina@usc.es

Department of English
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Coruña
Spain

2. Education and professional experience

2.1. Current position

Professor of English Linguistics, Department of English, USC, Spain

2.2. Previous positions

Job Institution Dates
Associate Lecturer T3P4 Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 4-2-91/30-9-91
Associate Lecturer T3P4 Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 1-10-91/30-9-92
Associate Lecturer Full Time Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 1-10-92/30-9-93
Associate Lecturer Full Time Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 1-10-93/30-9-94
Pre Tenure Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 4-10-94/30-9-95
Pre Tenure Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 1-10-95/19-11-96
Tenure Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago 20-11-96
Full Professor 2007, Santiago
14-12-07


2.3. Education

PhD, English Linguistics, 01-10-1993.
Licenciatura/BA in English Philology, 1988.


2.4 Short research stays

2005 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE”. University of Harvard/M.I.T., Boston, USA
1997 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE”. University of Cornell , Ithaca, NY. USA
1995 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. USA
1992 (october). Widener Library, University of Harvard. USA
1991 (october). Widener Library, University of Harvard. USA
1990 (September-October-November). University of Leeds. UK.


3. Research

3.1. Research grants

Pre-doctoral Researcher (F.P.I.) by the Spanish Ministry of Science (1989-91)


3.2. Major publications

1. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title (book): The Puzzle of Apposition: On So-Called Appositive Structures in English
Servicio de Publicacións. Universidade de Santiago: Santiago de Compostela. 1996.

2. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: On Apposition
Journal/book: English Language and Linguistics 3.1: 1-20. 1999.

3. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Reduced Relatives and Apposition
Journal/book: Australian Journal of Linguistics 20/: 5-22. 2000.

4. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Aspects of the relationship bewteen theories of grammar and theories of processing
Journal/book: ATLANTIS: 11-17. 2005.

5. Author-s: Moisés Betancort, Manuel Carreiras, and Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Processing controlled PROs in Spanish
Journal/book: Cognition 100/2: 217-282. 2006.

6. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: A constructional network in appositive space
Journal/book: Cognitive Linguistics 17/1: 1-37. 2006.

7. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Polycentric Apposition
Journal/book: Copenhagen Studies in Language Vol. 33: 27-52. 
Copenhagen Business School: Copenhagen. 2006

8. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language, by A. Goldberg, 2006
Journal/book: Folia Linguistica 40 3/4 (review): 391-400. 2006.

9. Author-s: Enrique Meseguer, Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña and Manuel Carreiras
Title: Processing ambiguous Spanish se in a minimal chain
Journal/book: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62.4: 766-788. 2009.

10. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: The psycholinguistics of agreement in English and Spanish: a tutorial overview
Journal/book: Lingua 119: 389-424. 2009.

11. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: NP doesn’t say it all: The true diversity of nominal constituency types.
Journal/book: Functions of Language 17: 265-281. 2009.

12. Author-s: Acuña Fariña, Fraga, García-Orza and Piñeiro.
Title: Animacy in the adjunction of Spanish RCs to complex NPs.
Journal/book: The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 21.8: 1137-1165. 2009.

13. Author-s: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Aspects of the grammar of close apposition and the structure of the noun phrase
Journal/book: English Language and Linguistics 13.3: 453-481. 2009.

14. Author-s: Carlos Prado Alonso and Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: A Comprehensive Account of Full-Verb Inversion in English
Journal/book: Folia Linguistica 44.2: 509-554. 2010.

15. Author-s : Sara Maria Riveiro Outeiral and Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Title: Agreement processes in English and Spanish: a completion study
Journal/book: Functions of Language 19.1: 58-88. 2012.

16. Author: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña

Title: Agreement, attraction and architectural opportunism
Journal/book: Journal of Linguistics 48.2: 257-295. 2012.
 
17. Authors: Isabel Fraga, Ana Piñeiro, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Jaime Redondo, & Javier García-Orza

Title: Emotional nouns affect attachment decisions in sentence completion tasks

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychologydoi:10.1080/17470218.2012.662989

2012

 

18. Authors: Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Manuel Carreiras and Enrique Meseguer

Title: Gender and Number Agreement Comprehension in Spanish

Lingua 143: 108-128. 2014.

 

19. Author: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Title: The Grammars of Close Apposition.

Journal/book: Journal of English Linguistics  10.1177/0075424216628262).

 Pages, initial: 61  final: 83      Date: 2016

 

20. Authors: Marcos Díaz Lago, Isabel Fraga, & Carlos Acuña-Fariña.

Title: Emotion before gramar: time course of gender agreement violations containing emotional words

Journal/book: Journal of Neurolinguistics

  Pages, initial: 79  final: 93 Date: 2015

 

21.Authors: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Título: (A few) psycholinguistic properties of the NP.

Journal/book:  The Structure of the English NP. Synchronic and diachronic explorations. Davidse, Kristin (ed.). Functions of Language 23:1

  Pages, initial: 17  final: 38 Date: 2016

 

  22. Authors: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

  Título: Opportunistic processing of language.

   Journal/book:  Language Sciences  DOI information: 10.1016/j.langsci.2016.05.003

   Pages, initial: 34 final: 48 Date: 2016-06-28

 

      23. Authors: Fraga, I., Padrón, I., Acuña-Fariña, C. & Díaz-Lago, M

Title: Processing gender agreement and word emotionality: New electrophysiological and behavioural evidence

Journal: Journal of Neurolinguistics 44: 203-222. 2017.

 

24. Authors: Dubert, Francisco & Acuña-Fariña, Carlos

Title: Restructuring and complexification of inflectional morphology under linguistic contact: the case of a Galician dialect.

Book: Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula.

Mouton: Amsterdam. Forthcoming.

 

25. Author: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Title: The role of morphology in setting production biases in agreement: a cross- linguistic completion study.

Journal: Language Sciences  66: 28-41. 2018.

 

26. Author: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Title: Aspects of the constructional nature of agreement.

Journal: Constructions. Forthcoming.

 

27. Author: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Title: Aspects of a psychologically informed theory of agreement

Journal: Folia Linguistica. Forthcoming.

 

 

 

 

3.3. PhD supervision

With Teresa Fanego :

1.Title: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF N + N STRUCTURES IN PRESENT DAY ENGLISH.
Author: Iria Pastor Gómez.
03-12-2009

With Teresa Fanego :

2.Title: INVERSION IN ENGLISH.
Author: Carlos Prado Alonso.
31-01-08.
European Doctorade.

3.With Isabel Fraga Carou:

Title: EL PAPEL DE LAS VARIABLES LÉXICAS Y EMOCIONALES EN LA DESAMBIGUACIÓN DE ORACIONES DE RELATIVO (‘the role of lexical and emotional variables in the disambiguation of relative clauses in Spanish’)
Author: Ana Piñeiro Barreiro.
15-02-2011.

 

4. Title: QUIRKY NPS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CLOSE APPOSITION.

Author: Vanesa Gil Vilacoba.

 24-07-2013.


5.With Isabel Fraga Carou:

Title: AGREEMENT PROCESSES IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH

Author: Sara Riveiro Outeiral.

04-12-2014.

European Doctorade.

 

 Currently supervising:

With Teresa Fanego :

1. Title: THE PROCESSING OF GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES: MORPHOSYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND EFFICIENCY IN VARIETIES OF ENGLISH IN THE WORLD.

Author: Iván Tamaredo Meira.

Estimated time of completion: 2016.

 

2. Title: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE PROCESSING OF AGREEMENT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.

Author: Paula Márquez Caamaño

Estimated time of completion: 2017.

 

3. Title  : SYNTACTIC PROCESSING AND SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE

 Author: Iria de Dios

Estimated time of completion: 2017.

 

 

3.4. Leading researcher in research projects

”El procesamiento de ambigüedades de adjunción y categorías vacías: una aproximación pluri-linguística” (the processing of adjunction ambiguities and of empty categories: a cross-linguistic perspective)
Sponsor: The Autonomous Government of Galicia PGIDT (O1PXI20401PR)
2001-2003

”Ambigüedad sintáctica, semántica, y condicionamiento de la evaluación” (Syntactic and semantic ambiguity)
Sponsor: The Autonomous Government of Galicia PGIDT (O1PXI20401PR)
2003-2005

” El procesamiento de ambigüedades de adjunción y categorías vacías” (the processing of adjunction ambiguities and of empty categories)
Sponsor: : The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (SEJ2005-08911/PSIC)
2005-2008

El procesamiento de ambigüedades de adjunción y categorías vacías” (the processing of adjunction ambiguities and of empty categories)
Sponsor: The Autonomous Government of Galicia (PGIDIT06PXIC204102PN)
2006-2007

” Semantic interference on syntactic operations”.
Sponsor: : The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science PSI2009-11748 (PSIC)
2009-2012

”Encapsulamiento informativo e interferecnia en los procesos de construcción sintáctica básicos” (informational encapsulation and interference in basic clause construction processes)
Sponsor: The Autonomous Government of Galicia) INCITE09 204 014 PR
2009-2012.

 

"El procesamiento sintáctico visto desde la interferencia semántica" (Syntactic processing as seen from semantic interference). Sponsor: the Spanish Ministry of Science ( MICINN). Just announced (September 2012). 2012-2015.



3.5. Refereeing

I have refereed for :
English Language and Linguistics,
Folia Linguistica,

Signos,
Language and Cognitive Processes.
Functions of Language
Lingua

Corpora