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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 Psychology.doi: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

Títle:(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

Title: 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. pp. 187-214.

De Gruyter, Mouton: Amsterdam. 2018.

 

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: 1-24.. 2018

 

27. Author: Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Title: Aspects of a psychologically informed theory of agreement

Journal: Folia Linguistica 52.2: 449-482. 2018.

 

28. Authors: Seoane, E., Acuña-Fariña, C. & Palacios, I. (eds.)

Title: Subordination in English. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives. 

Book: De Gruyter, Mouton. Berlin/Boston. 2018.

 

29. Author: Acuña-Fariña, C., Palacios, I. & Seoane, E. 

Title: Subordination or the permanent allure of the "adjacent possible". Pp: 1-24.

Book chapter: De Gruyter, Mouton. Berlin/Boston. 2018.

 

30. Author: Soares, A.,  Oliveira, H., Ferreira, M., Comesaña, M, Macedo, A., Ferré, P., Acuña-Fariña, C., Hernández-Cabrera, J. & Frga, I. 

Title: Lexico-syntactic interactions during the processing of temporarily ambiguous relative clauses: An eye-tracking study with intermediate and advanced Portuguese -English bilinguals. 

Journal: PloS ONE 14: 1-27.  2019.

 

31: Authors: Padrón, I.,  Fraga, I. & Acuña-Fariña, C.

Title: Processing  gender agreement errors in pleasant and unpleasant words: An ERP study at the sentence level.  

Journal/book: Neuroscience Letters

 Pages, initial:   final:         2020 

 

 

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.

 

With Teresa Fanego :

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

Author: Iván Tamaredo Meira.

Fecha de defensa: 15-11-2018

Doctorado europeo.

 

 

 

Currently supervising:

 

7. Title  : SYNTACTIC PROCESSING AND SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE

 Author: Iria de Dios

Estimated time of completion: February 2021.

 

 

3.4. Leading researcher in research projects

 

1. ”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

 

2. ”Ambigüedad sintáctica, semántica, y condicionamiento de la evaluación” (Syntactic and semantic ambiguity)

Sponsor: The Autonomous Government of Galicia PGIDT (O1PXI20401PR)

2003-2005

 

3. ”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

 

4. "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

 

5. ”Semantic interference on syntactic operations”.

Sponsor: : The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science PSI2009-11748 (PSIC)

2009-2012

 

6. ”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.

 

7. "El procesamiento sintáctico visto desde la interferencia semántica" (Syntactic processing as seen from semantic interference).

Sponsor: the Spanish Ministry of Science ( MICINN) PSI2012-32834. 2013-2016.

 

8. "Concordancia, atracción y otras ilusiones gramaticales: efectos léxicos en el procesamiento sintáctico. Una aproximación interlingüística" (Agreement, attraction, and other grammatical illusions: lexical effects during syntactic processing. A cross-linguistic approach)

Sponsor: the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, PSI2015-65116-P. 2016-2019.

 

9. "Representación y procesamiento del género gramatical: efectos fonológicos y léxico-semánticos en la congruencia y la concordancia de género" (The representation and processing of grammatical gender: Phonological and Mexico-semantic effects of gender congruence and gender agreement)

Sponsor: the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, PID2019-110583GB-100). 2020-2023. 

 

 

 

 

Professor Carlos Acuña Fariña

Facultad de Filología

University of Santiago de Compostela

15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 E-mail:

 carlos.acuna.farina@usc.es

Phone: +34 981 563100, ext. 11900

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