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Conferences and Courses organised by SCIMITAR people

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  • 2020. Supported by the D&I group, Gómez González, M. Á. organized the seminar Multimodality and Digital Communication given by Prof. Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds). 12-13 February 2020.
  • 2018. Mackenzie, J.L. taught on the International Postgraduate Course in Functional Discourse Grammar. Salvador de Bahía, Brazil. 23-25 June 2018.
  • 2018. Supported by the D&I group, Gómez González, M. Á.and T. Sánchez Roura organized the seminar Introduction to English Intonation and the Challenge of Perception given by Prof. Bronwen Evans (University College London). 08-09 May 2018.
  • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. organized the ESSE Doctoral Symposiumfor PhD students in English Language & Linguistics, Literatures in English, and Cultural & Area Studies. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 28-29 August 2017.
  • 2017. SCIMITAR has been involved in the organisation of the 2nd International Conference on the Discourse of Identity, in collaboration with Research Network ‘Lingua e literatura inglesa e identidade II’ (Xunta de Galicia R2014/ 403) and Research Group ‘Discurso e Identidade’ (Xunta de Galicia GRC2015/002 GI-1924). 8-9 June 2017.
  • 2017. SCIMITAR has been involved in the organisation of the 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC8). Athens, Greece. 25-28 May 2017.
  • 2017. Supported by the D&I group, Gómez González, M. Á. and T. Sánchez Roura organized the seminar Introduction to English Intonation and Praat given by Prof. Bronwen Evans (University College London). 2-9 May 2017.
  • 2017. Supported by the D&I group, Doval Suárez, S. and E. González Álvarez organized the seminar Learner Corpora given by Prof. Marcus Callies (University of Bremen). 2-9 May 2017.
  • 2016. Supported by the D&I group, Gómez González, M. Á. organized the seminar Current Isssues in the Pragmatic-Prosodic Interface of Discourse Markers given by Prof. Jesús Romero Trillo (Autonomous University of Madrid). 24 November 2016.
  • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. was involved in the organisation of Introduction to Functional Discourse Grammar.University of Vienna, Austria. 29-30 August 2016.
  • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. was involved in the organisation of Language production in English: syntax, discourse and dialogue.University of Vienna, Austria. 3/10-27/11 2015.
  • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. was involved in the organisation of the mini-course O Componente Contextual numa Gramática Discursivo-Funcional do diálogo, III SILF, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 25-26 August 2015.
  • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. was involved in the organisation of Language production in English: syntax, discourse and dialogue.University of Vienna, Austria. 24-30 April 2015.
  • 2013. SCIMITAR was involved in the organisation of the 7th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference(ICLC7). University of Ghent, Belgium, 10-13 July 2013.
  • 2012. SCIMITAR was involved in the organisation of the 1st International Conference on The Discourse of Identity. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 13-15 June 2012. Our aim was to take a multi- and inter-disciplinary approach to fields such as linguistics, literature, sociology, psychology, history, and gender studies, among others, in order to deliver a comprehensive analysis of the complex issue of the drama of identity.
  • 2010. SCIMITAR was involved in the organisation of the 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC6). Free University of Berlin, Germany. 30/9-2/10 2010.
  • 2008. SCIMITAR was involved in the organisation of the 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC5). University of Leuven, Belgium. 7-9 July 2008.
  • 2005. Gómez-González, M. Á. was head of the Organising Committee of 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference(ICLC4). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 20-23 September 2005.
  • 2003. Gómez-González, M. Á. was a member of the organising committee of 3rd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference(ICLC3). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 23-26 September 2003.
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    Workshops organised by SCIMITAR people

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      Workshops given by SCIMITAR people

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          • 2025. M.Á. Gómez González , A. Lago Ferreiro & J. C. López Ardao Round table on Language learning in digital environments: The Case of English pronunciation. Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis: Digital Language Learning . University of Santiago de la Compostela. 9 May 2025.

         

         

          • 2025. Workshop e-Profun (English Pronunciation is Fun). Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis: Digital Language Learning . University of Santiago de la Compostela. 9 May 2025.

         

         

        • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. and M.Á. Gómez González organized the Workshop “Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space: Models and applications across languages, registers and genres”. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Zürich, Switzerland. 10-13 September 2017.
        • 2014. Butler, C. S.Workshop on Statistics for linguistics. University of Sussex, UK. 3-5 March 2014.
        • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.and Mauranen, A. led a doctoral session on linguistics at the Eleventh Conference of the European Society for the Study of English. Istanbul, Turkey. 4-8 September 2012.
        • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. conducted a workshop on the Language Rich Europe project. 4th EdiLiC Conference. Aveiro, Portugal. 16-18 July 2012.
        • 2012. Butler, C. S.Workshop on statistics for postgraduate students. University of Bergen, Norway. 14-16 May 2012.

      Talks given by SCIMITAR people

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      • 2024. Gómez González, M. A. e-SoundWay and e-Profun: Two gamified CAPT tools to learn English phonetics and pronunciation. [Plenary Talk]. GLOTECH 2024 Online International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation. Alacant. 12-14 December 2024.
      • 2024. Gómez González, M. Á.& Lago Ferreiro, A.  e-SoundWayTR, e-SoundWayFR, and e-Profun Three digital tools to improve L2 English pronunciation. [Invited Talk]. L2 Speech Methodology. Vitoria-Gasteiz. 14 June 2024.
      • 2022. Gonzálvez-García, F. Convenor of the thematic session entitled “Cognitively-oriented constructionist approaches at the crossroads: Methodological, descriptive and explanatory perspectives”. 12th International AELCO/SCOLA Conference. University of La Rioja, Spain. 27-29 June 2022.
      • 2022. Gonzálvez-García, F. Capturing meaningful generalizations through allostructions/constructions and fragments: The case of the family of “ser + muy de-PP” constructions in Spanish. [Plenary talk]. 12th International AELCO/SCOLA Conference. University of La Rioja, Spain. 27-29 June 2022.
      • 2021. Gómez González, M. Á. and P. Silvano. Comparing and contrasting invariable tag questions in British English and European Portuguese. 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. University of Genoa, Italy. 20-21 May 2021.
      • 2021. Gonzálvez-García, F. Coercion meets metonymy: The case of degree modifiers coercing nouns in present-day Spanish and English. 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. University of Genoa, Italy. 20-21 May 2021.
      • 2021. Gonzálvez-García, F. Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Some observations from a (Contrastive) (Cognitive) Construction Grammar perspective. 11th International Construction Grammar Conference. University of Antwerp, Belgium. 18-20 August 2021.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F. La(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones: Implementaciones y aplicaciones a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. [Invited talk]. Department of Applied Linguistics, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. 13 October 2020.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F. Construction Grammar(s) in functional-cognitive space. [Invited talk given as part of the subject “English Construction Grammar” as part of the Master of Cognitive Linguistics and Literature]. University of Córdoba, Spain. February 2020.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. Coercion meets metonymy in gradable constructions in predicative and attributive contexts: Some notes from a contrastive Cognitive Construction Grammar perspective. [Invited talk]. Subjectivity in language use and discourse: From figurative language to constructions conference. Department of Modern Philologies, University of La Rioja, Spain. 28-29 November 2019.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. La influencia de factores pragmático-discursivos sobre la estructura argumental: El caso de la interacción entre los predicados secundarios y las cláusulas de relativo en español actual. [Paper delivered (by invitation) within the thematic session on constructions at Romanistentag 2019 Wiederaufbau, Rekonstruktion, Erneuerung]. Kassel, Germany. 29/9-2/10 2019.
      • 2019. Peña Cervel, M. S., F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. Gonzálvez-García. Teaching emotional meaning in English by means of multimedia resources. IV International Conference on Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching: Towards Multilingualism. University Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain. 27-29 June 2019.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. La(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones: Implementaciones y aplicaciones a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. [Invited talk]. Department of Applied Linguistics, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. 14 May 2019.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. Metonymy meets coercion: Some notes on constructional change involving the intensification of nouns in predicative and attributive contexts in Spanish. [Paper delivered (by invitation) within the thematic session “Construcciones en español: contacto, variación y cambio”]. 22nd International Conference of the German Association of Hispanists. Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany. 27-31 March 2019.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. Construction Grammar(s) in functional-cognitive space. [Invited talk given as part of the subject “English Construction Grammar as part of the Master of Cognitive Linguistics and Literature]. University of Córdoba, Spain. February 2019.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring usage-based constructionist approaches in functional-cognitive space: Recent theoretical developments/rapprochements, analytical perspectives and pedagogical applications. [Invited talk]. Subjectivity in language use and discourse: From figurative language to constructions conference. Department of Modern Philologies. University of La Rioja, Spain. 20-24 November 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Metonymy meets coercion: Some observations on the intensification of nouns in predicative and attributive contexts in present-day Spanish. 4th International ‘Figurative Thought and Language’ Conference. University of Braga, Portugal. 23-26 October 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Teaching the construal of the subjective-transitive construction in Spanish as an L2: Some notes from a(n) Applied/Pedagogical Construction Grammar perspective. XI International AELCO/SCOLA Conference. University of Córdoba, Spain. 17-19 October 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. andC. S. Butler. Situating Valency Theory within functional-cognitive space. XI International AELCO/SCOLA Conference. University of Córdoba, Spain. 17-19 October 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. What can pragmatic function tell us about the constructicon? Evidence from secondary predicates in English and Spanish. SdC IWODA’18 International Conference. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 26-27 September 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. What can pragmatic function tell us about the constructicon? A view from (Cognitive) Construction Grammar. [Invited talk]. Department of English and German Philology. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 10 March 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M. Á. Tag questions as a family of constructions across languages: A usage-based quantitative approach. [Invited talk]. Eh Lab Colloquium. University of British Columbia (Canada). 6 October 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M. Á. Interacting through talk: Comparing and contrasting tag questions. [Invited talk]. Linguistics Colloquium. Simon Fraser University (Canada). 4 September 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M.Á.and Gonzálvez García, F. Explaining English variable tag questions within an Applied Construction Grammar framework. ICCG10 Tenth International Conference on Construction Grammar. Sorbonne Paris Cité University (USPC) (Paris) and the French Cognitive Linguistics Association. 16-18 July 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M. Á.and F. Gonzálvez-García. Construction Grammar(s) in functional-cognitive space. [Invited talk given as part of the subject “English Construction Grammar as part of the Master of Cognitive Linguistics and Literature]. University of Córdoba, Spain. February 2018.
      • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. Bringing together discourse relations and grammaticalization: The case of the family of “lo que se dice XPCOMP” constructions in Spanish. [Invited talk]. Workshop Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space: Models and applications across languages, registers and genres. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Zürich, Switzerland. 10-13 September 2017.
      • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the gradient nature of constructions: Evidence from similes and proverbs in English and Spanish. International Contrastive Linguistics Conference 8. University of Athens, Greece. 25-28 May 2017.
      • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring the Lexical Constructional Model within functional-cognitive space: (II) Descriptive and explanatory perspectives. Coloquio de Lingüística Cognitiva. University of Czestochowa, Poland. 26/4-20/5 2017.
      • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring the Lexical Constructional Model within functional-cognitive space: (III): The cross-fertilization of the LCM with functionalist, cognitivist and constructionalist approaches. Coloquio de Lingüística Cognitiva.University of Czestochowa, Poland. 26/4-20/5 2017.
      • 2017. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring the Lexical Constructional Model within functional-cognitive space: (I) Foundational assumptions. Coloquio de Lingüística Cognitiva. University of Czestochowa, Poland. 26/4-20/5 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á., S.M. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez. Concessive patterns in online written reviews. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Zürich, Switzerland. 10-13 September 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á. and F. Gonzálvez García. Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space: Models and applications across languages, registers and genres. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.University of Zürich, Switzerland. 10-13 September 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á. The Construction of Discourse as Social Interaction: Contrastive Implications and Applications (FFI2013-40517-P). Second International Conference of ‘The Discourse of Identity’. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 8-9 June 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á. Exploring tag questions and question tags in spoken discourse: Evidence from English, Spanish and Portuguese. 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC8). Athens, Greece. 25-28 May 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á. The puzzle of tag questions in a cross-linguistic perspective. Thematic Cycle of Conferences ‘English Linguistics‘. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 19 January 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. Self-prefixed verbs. [Plenary lecture].41st Annual Conference of the Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. 8-10 November 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. The syntax of an emotional expletive in English. 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English(7BICLCE2017). University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. 28-30 September 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. Negative polarity in FDG. Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Expressions of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and polarity. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 26-27 June 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. A descrição discursivo-funcional da negação em quatro línguas. 4º Simpósio Internacional de Linguística Funcional(SILF 4). Natal RT, Brazil. 31/5-2/6 2017.
      • 2016. Doval Suárez, S.and E. González Álvarez. ‘So…I don’t know’. Discourse functions of ‘so’ in the speech of Spanish learners of English. 34th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Alicante, Spain. 14-16 April 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. Coercion meets metonymy: The case of degree constructions in English. [Invited talk]. Carmelo Cunchillos Seminar. University of La Rioja, Spain. 5 November 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. Algunas consideraciones sobre el potencial de las relaciones verticales y horizontales en el constructicón. [Invited presentation]. 10th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). Thematic session: Aportaciones y aplicaciones de la Lingüística Cognitiva a la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 26-28 October 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the role of metonymy on the coercion of gradable constructions. [Invited presentation]. 10th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). Thematic session: Figurative thinking: from cognition to grammar, to communication, and back. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 26-28 October 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. GenX so meets Construction Grammar(s): Some reflections on innovative uses of so in present-day English. [Invited presentation]. University of Oviedo, Spain. 22 September 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. Coercion as conceptual integration: Evidence from the family of subjective-transitive constructions in English. 5th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 6-8 July 2016
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. Songs and the teaching of metaphorical meanings and grammatical aspects at university. 3rd International Conference on Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching: Towards Multilingualism. Antonio de Nebrija Univeristy, Madrid, Spain. 23-25 June 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the gradient nature of coercion: Evidence from the family of subjective-transitive constructions in English. [Invited talk]. University of Ghent, Belgium. 28 April 2016.
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the role of discourse-pragmatic factors on argument structure: The case of the interaction between secondary predicates and relative clauses in present-day Spanish. 34th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Alicante, Spain. 14-16 April 2016.
      • 2016. Gómez González, M.Á. Grammatically dependent tag questions in English and their Spanish equivalents. [Invited talk]. Carmelo Cunchillos Seminar. University of La Rioja, Spain. 5 November 2016.
      • 2016. Gómez González, M. Á. Exploring Tag Questions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. [Plenary]. 3rd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics. Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies (VDOCS 2016). University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. 24-25 October 2016.
      • 2016. Gómez González, M. Á. Tag questions across speakers, languages and genres. [Plenary]. International Congress liLETRAd 2016 Literature, Languages and Translation. University of Seville, Spain. 6-8 July 2016.
      • 2016. Gómez González, M.Á. Conceding with ‘but’ and ‘although’ in online written reviews. 34th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Alicante, Spain. 14-16 April 2016.
      • 2016. Lastres López, C. Conditionals across languages: A corpus-based study of if-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents. 3rd International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics. Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies (VDOCS 2016). University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. 24-25 October 2016.
      • 2016. Lastres López, C. Exploring ‘if’/’si’-clauses in spoken academic discourse: A contrastive English-Spanish-French study. 34th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Alicante, Spain. 14-16 April 2016.
      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. The syntax of an emotional expletive in English. International Conference on Language and Emotion. Madrid, Spain. 23-25 October 2016.
      • 2016. Hengeveld, K. and J.L. Mackenzie. Negation in FDG. Fourth International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar. Vienna, Austria. 31/8-3/9 2016.
      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. Uma gramática funcional como ferramenta da comunicação. Colóquio Internacional de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários (CIELLI IV), Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá PR, Brazil. 8-10 June 2016.
      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. Uma gramática funcional como ferramenta da comunicação. Programa de Pós-Coordenação e do Grupo de Pesquisa em Gramática Funcional. Universidade Estadual Paulista, São José do Rio Preto SP, Brazil. 3 June 2016.
      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. English verbs prefixed with self-: A new expressive option. [Plenary]. 26th International Conference on British and American Studies. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 12-14 May 2016.
      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L. A linguist’s view of the landscape. Symposium “Interdisciplinary approaches to landscape representation: bridging the gap”. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 24-25 February 2016.
      • 2015. Gonzálvez-García, F. Situating the Lexical Constructional Model within functional-cognitive space: A multidimensional analysis. [Invited talk]. Carmelo Cunchillos Seminar. University of La Rioja, Spain. 27 November 2015.
      • 2015. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the gradient nature of constructions: Evidence from similes and proverbs in English and Spanish. 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language. University of Pavia, Italy. 28-30 October 2015.
      • 2015. González Álvarez, E. and S. Doval Suárez. The use of question tags in the oral production of Spanish learners of English. BAAL Language and Teaching SIG. 11th Annual Conference. University of Edinburgh, UK. 2-3 July 2015.
      • 2015. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring the Lexical Constructional Model within functional-cognitive space. [Plenary]. 4th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation. UNED. Madrid, Spain. 1-3 July 2015.
      • 2015. Gonzálvez-García, F. Inferential constructions in English and Spanish: A view from Construction Grammar. Talk given at the English Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. May 2015.
      • 2015. Gómez-González, M. Á. Concession as argumentation: The case of but and although. [Plenary]. International Congress liLETRAd 2015 Literature, Languages and Translation. University of Seville, Spain. 7-8 July 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. Particles and Functional Discourse Grammar. UPV/EHU University, Basque Country, Spain. 14 December 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. Talk to Jornadas de Inglês: “The Englishing of the World”, University of Aveiro, Portugal. 24 November 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. “English verbs prefixed with self-“, for the Research Network ‘Lingua e literatura inglesa e identidade II’, the Research Group ‘Discurso e Identidade’ and the Research Project ‘The construction of discourse as social interaction: Contrastive implications and applications’. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 29 October 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. English verbs prefixed with self-and FDG. Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar. Córdoba, Spain. 10-11 September 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. English pluralia tantum nominalizations in -ings. 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Leiden, Netherlands. 2-5 September 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. [Plenary]. Objectividade, subjetividade e intersubjetividade na perspetiva da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional. III SILF. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 25 August 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. Sentiment and confidence in Financial English: a corpus study. 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Antwerp, Belgium. 26-31 July 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L. No hay sintaxis del discurso. XLIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, Spain. 27-30 January 2015
      • 2015. Taboada, M. Appraisal, subjectivity, nonveridicality, coherence relations: Connections and overlaps. [Plenary]. 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress. Aachen, Germany. 27-31 July 2015.
      • 2015. Benamara, F. and M. Taboada. Towards a unified discourse relations hierarchy. 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Antwerp, Belgium. 26-31 July 2015.
      • 2015. Taboada, M. Rhetorical relations are relations of coherence: What discourse coherence means, and how we can find it. [Plenary]. Conference of the COST Action TextLink: Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe. TextLink First Action Conference. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 26-28 January 2015.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. Bringing together the clausal and textual functions of subjective meaning: The case of passive secondary predication with verba cogitandi et dicendi in Spanish. [Invited talk]. University of Texas at Austin, USA. 14 October 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. The family of Construction Grammar(s): Theoretical and descriptive applications. [Invited talk]. Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. 13 May 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. Polysemy, coercion and the ‘subjective-transitive’ construction in English. Polysemy in Language and Translation Conference. English Department of the Higher School of Labor Safety Management in Katowice, Poland. 12 May 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the role of coercion in meaning construction and meaning interpretation in cognitive-functional linguistics. [Invited talk]. Modern Language Department, Ural Federal University, Ekaterimburgo, Russia. 11 April 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. Publishing in (Cognitive) Linguistics internationally. [Invited talk]. Modern Language Department, Ural Federal University, Ekaterimburgo, Russia. 10 April 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. That’s so a construction!: Some notes on innovative uses of so in present-day English. [Invited talk]. Modern Language Department, Ural Federal University, Ekaterimburgo, Russia. 10 April 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. The family of Construction Grammars: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications. [Invited talk]. Modern Language Department, Ural Federal University, Ekaterimburgo, Russia. 9 April 2014.
      • 2014. Gonzálvez-García, F. Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar(s): An overview. [Invited talk]. Modern Language Department, Ural Federal University, Ekaterimburgo, Russia. 8 April 2014.
      • 2014. Mackenzie, J. L. Dialogue, dynamicity and resonance as challenges for Functional Discourse Grammar. [Round Table on Dynamicity]. Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. 4-5 September 2014.
      • 2014. Mackenzie, J. L. A first history of Functional Grammar. 13th International Conference on the History of Language Science. Vila Real, Portugal. 25-27 Agosto 2014.
      • 2014. Mackenzie, J. L. Constructions and the lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar. [Invited plenary lecture]. 3rd International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation. Valencia, Spain. 2-4 July 2014.
      • 2014. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada. Discourse structure and attitudinal valence of opinion words in sentiment extraction. 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. Poster. January 2014.
      • 2013. García Varela, A. P. So much for Theme… now, what about Rheme?. Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDa’13). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-21 June 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F.  On the role of coercion in Construction Grammar(s). [Seminar]. Università di Modena, Italy. 24 September 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the role of coercion in meaning construction and meaning inerpretation in cognitive-functional linguistics. International Conference on Meaning Construction, Meaning Interpretation: Applications and Implications. Universidad da La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. 18-20 July 2013.
      • 2013. González Álvarez, E and S. Doval Suárez. The use of Extrapositon in the Written Production of Spanish Advanced Learners of English. 7th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference/ 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. University of Ghent, Belgium. 10-13 July 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the role of discourse-pragmatic factors on argument structure: The case of the interaction between secondary predicates and relative clauses in present-day Spanish. 7th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference/ 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. University of Ghent, Belgium. 10-13 July 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F. Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon: A view from Contrastive (Cognitive) Construction Grammar. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, Canada. 23-28 June 2013.
      • 2013. González Álvarez, E and S. Doval Suárez. Native and non-native use of canonical and reversed pseudo-cleft constructions. Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDa’13). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-21 June 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F. Towards a (Contrastive) Construction Grammar view of Focus Constructions in English and Spanish. Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDa’13). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-21 June 2013.
      • 2013. Gonzálvez-García, F.  Towards a usage-based constructionist analysis of sentential complement clauses in English and Spanish. 31 Congreso Internacional de AESLA. University of La Laguna, Spain. 18-20 April 2013.
      • 2013. Gómez González, M. A. Concessive relations as argumentation in English and Spanish. Valoración en el Discurso Periodístico: Perspectivas Retóricas e Interculturales. University of Navarra, Spain. 27-28 May 2013.
      • 2013. Gómez-González, M. Á. The question of tag questions: A Comparison across Markers, Languages and Genres. [Plenary]. International Conference on Genre and Register-Related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora. Institut Libre Marie Haps. Brussels, Belgium. 11-12 January 2013.
      • 2013. Hannay M., J. L. Mackenzieand E. Martínez Caro. Besides as a Connective. Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDa’13). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-21 June 2013.
      • 2013. Juncal Soage, M. L.  Obviously, absolutely, definitely and certainly as whole-sentences responses to yes-no questions. Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDa’13). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-21 June 2013.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, J. L.  Hacia una segmentación del discurso desde el punto de vista de la GDF. Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, Spain. 22-25 January 2013.
      • 2013. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada. Discourse relations and affective content in the expression of sentiment in texts. 11th ICGL Conference – Workshop on The semantic field of emotions: Interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approaches. Rhodes, Greece. September 2013.
      • 2013. Taboada, M. Computational linguistics and discourse. [Plenary]. STIL – The 9th Brazilian Symposium on Information and Human Language Technology. Fortaleza, Brazil. September 2013.
      • 2013. Das, D. and M. Taboada. Signalling of subject matter and presentational coherence relations: A corpus study. 2013 Meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS). New York, USA. August 2013.
      • 2013. Elouazizi, N., M. Taboadaand N. Hedberg. Ostensive demonstratives in multimodal contexts. 19th International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, Switzerland. July 2013.
      • 2013. Taboada, M. Contrasting opinions: Appraisal in a mulitlingual corpus. [Plenary]. International Conference on Genre and Register-Related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora. Institut Libre Marie Haps. Brussels, Belgium. 11-12 January 2013.
      • 2012. Butler, C. S. Some challenges for the future of the Lexical Constructional Model and FunGramKB. 1st International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation: LCM and FunGranKB. Universidad Nacional a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 4-6 July 2012.
      • 2012. García Varela, A. P. Sexism in advertising: cause or effect?. 1st Conference on The Discourse of Identity. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 13 June 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F. Hacia un análisis más realista de los complementos del objeto en español contemporáneo. Colloque de Linguistique Comparée des Langues Romanes: LiCoLaR 2012: “La subordination à travers les langues romanes Hommage au Professeur Henry-José Deulofeu”. University of Marsella, France. 18-19 October 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F. That’s so a construction! Some reflections on innovative uses of so in present-day English. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Stockholm, Sweden. 29/8-1/9 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the gradient nature of constructions: Some implications for the Lexical Constructional Model. 1st International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation: LCM and FunGranKB. Universidad Nacional a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 4-6 July 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F.  Intensifiers meet globalization: Some innovative uses of soin present-day English. 1st Conference on The Discourse of Identity. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 15 June 2012.
      • 2012. Juncal Soage, L. Contrastive study of four English / Spanish adverbs. Modality, Corpus, Discourse Conference. University of Lund, Sweden. 7-8 June 2012
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. International funding of research projects. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 11 December 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Functional Discourse Grammar: A grammar of the Discourse Act. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 10 December 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Publishing with international publishers. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 7 November 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Career prospects for researchers in linguistics. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 20-21 October 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Publishing in international journals. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 16 October 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Methods, advice, prospects. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 8-9 October 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. The internationalization of research: experiences, challenges, opportunities. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. 1 October 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Spatial adpositions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Second International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar. The University of Ghent, Belgium. 6-8 June 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L. Course: English for University Teachers. Universidad de León, Spain. 29-30 March 2012.
      • 2012. N. Elouazizi and M. Taboada. Ostension and the nature of multimodal referential relations. 11th Conceptual Structure Discourse and Language Conference. Vancouver, Canada. 17-20 May 2012.
      • 2012. Tranavac, R. and M. Taboada. Backwards anaphora marking in coherence relations. 11th Conceptual Structure Discourse and Language Conference. Vancouver, Canada. 17-20 May 2012.
      • 2012. M. Taboadaand R. Trnavac. Cataphoric it from the point of view of coherence relations. 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, USA. 5-8 January 2012
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to quantitative studies. [Course].Universidad de Málaga. 19-21 December 2011.
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. Statistics for linguistics. [Course]. University of Bergen, Norway. 24-28 October 2011.
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. Societas Lingüística Europaea. [Discussant]. Universidad de Logroño. 8 September 2011.
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to statistical techniques. [Course]. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 5-6 September 2011.
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. [Inaugural Lecture]. Form and Function in Molecular Biology, Language and Music. University of Huddersfield. 3 June 2011.
      • 2011. Butler, C. S. Research methods in the study of language: an introduction with particular reference to quantitative studies. [Course]. Universidad de Málaga, Spain. 11-12 January 2011.
      • 2011. García Varela, A. P. “When police arrived at the scene” or “han venido dos policías”: on Theme and Thematic Progression in news reports. III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus. Universitat de Valencia. 7-9 May 2011.
      • 2011. González-Álvarez, E. and S. Doval Suárez. The use of it-clefts in the written production of Spanish advanced learners of English. 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Berlín. 30 October 2011. 
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and functional approaches. [Presentation]. University of Gante, Belgium. 7-8 October 2011. 
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F.  Construction Grammar(s) in the present-day functional-cognitive scenario. [Invited talk]. Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and Functional Approaches. University of Ghent, Belgium. 7-8 October 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F.  On the syntax-lexicon continuum in Construction Grammar(s). [Invited speaker]. Meeting of the Functional Grammar Group. University of Copenhague, Denmark. 29 September 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. Análisis conversacional, objectos directos y predicativos de los objectos directos en español hablado: nuevas perspectivas desde la gramática de construcciones. [Invited speaker]. Meeting of the Functional Grammar Group. University of Copenhaguen, Denmark. 28 September 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. [Invited speaker]. What Construction Grammar(s) can do for Contrastive (English-Spanish) Linguistics. Universidad de Copenhague, Denmark. 27 September 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. Construction Grammar beyond English: observational and experimental approaches. [Presentation at the workshop directed by S. Th. Gries & J. Yoon: “What snowclones reveal about actual language use in Spanish: A constructionist view”]. 44 Congreso Internacional de Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Universidad de La Rioja, Spain. 8-11 September 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. On the lexicon-grammar continuum in Construction Grammar(s). [Invited speaker]. Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain. 7 September 2011.
      • 2011. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. Gonzálvez-García. The illocutionary value of the subjective-transitive constructions in English: A viewfrom the Lexical Constructional Model. [Presentation in the workshop “The Lexical Constructional Model”, directed by Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez]. 44 Congreso Internacional de Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Universidad de La Rioja, Spain. 7 September 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F.  The illocutionary dimension of the ‘manipulative subjective-transitive’ construction: a view from the Lexical Constructional Model. Heinrich-Hein-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. 13 July 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. Functional-Cognitive Space in the 21st Century: An Overview. Heinrich-Hein-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. 12 July 2011. 
      • 2011. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. Gonzálvez-García. The illocutionary dimension of the ‘manipulative subjective-transitive’ construction: a view from the Lexical Constructional Model. XXIX Congreso Internacional de AESLA. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. 4-6 May 2011.
      • Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and F. Gonzálvez-García. ‘Tú sí que sabes’: Towards a better understanding of the discourse-pragmatics facets of contrastive focus constructions in Spanish. XXIX AESLA International Conference, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. 4-6 May 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F.  The grammar-discourse interface revisited within Contrastive Construction Grammar: The case of focus constructions in English and Spanish. [Presentation]. CILC 2011 – III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus. Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain. 7-9 April 2011.
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. What Construction Grammar(s) can do for Contrastive (English-Spanish) Linguistics. [Invited speaker in the program: “Distinguished Lecture Series”]. University of North Texas, USA. 8 February 2011. 
      • 2011. Gonzálvez-García, F. Words as constructions: Some reflections from a contrastive (English-Spanish) perspective. [Invited speaker by the Department of Germanic Studies (Prof. Hans. C. Boas)]. University of Austin, Texas, USA. 7 February 2011.
      • 2011. Gómez-González, M. Á. English Phonetics for Spanish Learners. [Plenary lecture].  Ciclo de Conferencias New Trends in English Studies. Universidade da Coruña. 10 November 2011.
      • 2011. Gómez-González, M. Á. Part of the scientific committee: “Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML)”, Scientific Research Publishing, (California, USA). 28 October 2011.
      • 2011. Gómez González, M. Á. Contrastive Linguistics: Constructional and functional approaches. University of Gante, Belgium. 7-8 October 2011.
      • 2011. Gómez González, M. Á. Was invited to teach a seminar on the Grammar-Discourse Interface at the University of York (Department of English Language and Linguistics) (UK). 1-10 May 2011.
      • 2011. Gómez-González, M. Á. Visiting professor at the Linguistic and Language Department of University of York (United Kingdom).Sessions given: (1) ‘Information packaging strategies’, (2) ‘Cohesion & Coherence’, and (3) ‘English and Spanish Phonetics’. 1-10 April 2011. 
      • 2011. Gómez González, M. Á. Scientific Committee and Convenor of the Panel entitled ‘Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies’ for the Third International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2011), held at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). 7-9 April 2011.
      • 2011. Hannay, M. One day workshop: ‘English punctuation for translators and editors’, Society of English Editors. 1 November 2011.
      • 2011. Hannay, M.and M. Á. Gómez González. Presentation: “Thematic parentheticals in Dutch and English”. ‘Discourse on Tuesday’, University of Utrecht. 1 September 2011. 
      • 2011. Hannay, M. One day workshop: ‘Information packaging’, Society for English Editors, Utrecht. 1 March 2011.
      • 2011. Juncal Soage, L. “A contrastive study of adverbs of certainty as discourse markers in spoken English and Spanish”, International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universitat de Valencia. 7-9 April 2011. 
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Participation in “ULICES Advisory Committee”, Universidade de Lisboa. 17-18 November 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Participation in “44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Logroño. 10-11 September 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. “Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar”, and “The Contextual Component in a dialogic FDG”. Universitat de Barcelona. 8-9 September 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Lecture in collaboration with K. Hengeveld, in “Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar”: ‘Grammar and context in Functional Discourse Grammar’, Universitat de Barcelona. 8-9 September 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Participation in the IWODA workshop, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 5-7 September 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Functional Discourse Grammar and nominalizations. [Plenary]. 38th International Systemic Congress, Universidade de Lisboa. 28 July 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Three-day course: ‘Understanding English grammar from the angle of psycholinguistics and dialogue analysis’ Universidade de Vigo. 13-15 June 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Postgraduate course at the University of Vigo (Spain). 6-7 June 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. [Plenary speaker]. First Simpósio Internacional de Linguística Funcional. Três Lagoas MS (Brazil), 25-27 May 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. [Plenary lecture]. A adequação cognitiva na génese e no futuro da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional. Três Lagoas, MS, Brazil. 26-27 May 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. [Invited speaker]. Société Linguistique de Paris: ‘Functional Discourse Grammar’. 22 January 2011. 
      • 2011. Sánchez Roura, M. T.  [Plenary Lecture]. “Functions of Intonation” at Ciclo de Conferencias New Trends in English Studies. Universidade da Coruña. 10 November 2011.
      • 2011. Taboada, M.and M. Carretero. Appraisal in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies: A contrastive study of the expression of Graduation within the scope of Attitude. Int-Eval, International Workshop on the Evaluative Function of Language. Madrid, Spain. 1 October 2011.
      • 2011. Taboada, M.and M. Carretero. Annotating Appraisal: contrastive issues raised in the analysis of consumer reviews in English and Spanish. 38th International Systemic Functional Linguistic Congress. Lisbon, Portugal. 1 July 2011. 
      • 2010. García-Gonzálvez, F.  Performed various activities at the V Taller Teórico Internacional de Filosofia de la Mente y Neurociencias/II Encuentro Latinamericano del Grupo Internacional de Estudios de Cognición, Lenguaje, Identidad e Relaciones Humananas (GLIRh) at the Universidade Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú: a talk ‘Las relaciones entre el pensamiento y las palabras: Algunas reflexiones a la luz de los enfoques construccionistas’, a talk ‘De vuelta a las construcciones: del programa minimalista a la(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones’ and another talk ‘La Sintaxis Más Simple de Jackendoff: hacia una solución de compromisso entre los modelos sintácticocentricos y los modelos semánticocentricos’. 1-3 December 2010.
      • 2010. Gonzálvez-García, F. Invited to give the talk ‘Expecting the unexpected? Some notes on the versatility of expect in present-day English’ at the University of Verona (Italy). 11-13 November 2010.
      • 2010. García-Gonzálvez, F. Gave the talk ‘Tú sí que sabes: Towards a better understanding of the discourse-pragmatics facets of contrastive focus constructions in Spanish’ to the High Desert Linguistics Society 9, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. He also gave a poster ‘Constructional integration in the Lexical Constructional Model’ to the same society. 4-6 November 2010.
      • 2010. Gonzálvez-García, F. Was invited to give the talk ‘La palabra en la(s) Gramática(s) de Construcciones: De la Morfología a la Sintaxis y la Semántica’ at the Sylex 2 Lecture at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). 7-8 October 2010
      • 2010. García-Gonzálvez, F. Gave the talk ‘Reconstructing the notion of construction: From Goldberg’s Construction Grammar to the Lexical Constructional Model’ to the 7th International AELCO Conference at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). 1-2 October 2010.
      • 2010. Gómez González, M. Á. Was on the Scientific Committee of the 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference held in Berlin (Germany) and, together with Maite Taboada, there convened the thematic section ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive linguistics: From research to applications’. Among the papers given there by SCIMITAR members were: García Varela, A. P., ‘Theme and Thematic Progression in English & Spanish journalistic discourse’; Hannay, M. and Gómez González, M. Á., ‘Thematic parentheticals in English and Dutch’; Taboada, M. and Gómez González, M. Á., ‘Discourse markers and coherence relations: Comparison across markers, languages and modalities’; Taboada, M. and Carretero, M. ‘Labelling evaluative language in English and Spanish: The case of Attitude in consumer reviews’; and González-Álvarez, E. and Doval Suárez, S., ‘The use of it-clefts in the written production of Spanish advanced learners of English’. 30/9-2/10 2010.
      • 2010. Gómez González, M. Á. Was on the Scientific Committee of the conference Modality in English 4 in Madrid (Spain). The programme included the following presentation: Marta Carretero and Maite Taboada, ‘The annotation of Appraisal: How Attitude and epistemic modality overlap’. 9-11 September 2010.
      • 2010. Hannay, M. Was invited to give a workshop in Luxembourg entitled ‘Translation theory and translation practice: information packaging’ for translators of all the language sections of the European Commission. 15 November 2010.
      • 2010. Mackenzie, J. L. Gave a postgraduate course in Functional Discourse Grammar at the Pavol Jozef Safárik University of Kosice, Slovakia. 4-8 August 2010.
      • 2010. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada. Gave the talk ‘Contribution of (non)veridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse’ to the 37th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress in Vancouver (Canada). 18-23 July 2010.
      • 2010. Carretero, M. and M. Taboada. Gave the talk ‘Products, consumers and evaluation: a proposal of solutions to problematic issues of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews’ to the 22nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop at the University of Primorska (Slovenia). 9-12 July 2010.

      Invitations

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      • 2021. Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the Senior Consultant Committee of 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC9). University of Genoa, Italy. 20-21 May 2021.
      • 2021. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of the International Construction Grammar Conference 11. University of Antwerp, Belgium. 18-20 August 2021.
      • 2021. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 53. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
      • 2021. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the Senior Consultant Committee of of 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC9). University of Genoa, Italy. 20-21 May 2021.
      • 2021. Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 53). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F.2020. Member of the FWO Review College (Research Flounders Foundation, Belgium) 2021-2023. Date of appointment: October 2020.
      • 2020. Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the scientific committee of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 52). University of Bucharest, Rumania. 26-29 September 2020.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F.Member of the scientific committee of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 52). University of Bucharest, Rumania. 26-29 September 2020.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of the Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada series, published by the UPV printing press (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain). January 2020.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of “Nominating Committee”, Societas Linguistica Europaea. September 2019.
      • 2019. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of the EUROPHRAS 2019 “Produktive Modelle in der Phraseologie” International Conference. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 24-25 January 2019.
      • 2019. Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the scientific committee of AESLA research awards (2019) (Young researchers).
      • 2018. Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the scientific committee of the IWODA 2018 International Conference. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 26-27 September 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of AESLA research awards (2018) (Young researchers).
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of the AELCO/SCOLA XI-2018 International Conference. University of Córdoba, Spain. 17-19 October 2018.
      • 2018. Gonzálvez-García, F. Member of the scientific committee of the IWODA 2018 International Conference. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 26-27 September 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M.Á. Member of the scientific committee of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (5th edition). The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the University of Louvain (Belgium). 12-14 September 2018.
      • 2018. Gómez González, M.Á. and Gonzálvez García, F. participated in 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, (members of Scientific Committee). University of Tallinn, Estonia. 29/8-01/9 2018.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. Elected Treasurer of the Societas Linguistica Europæa (SLE) for three years (2017- 2020).
      • 2017. Gómez González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Editorial Board of Languages in Contrast (John Benjamins).
      • 2017. Gómez González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Editorial Board of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics (John Benjamins).
      • 2016. Gonzálvez-García, F. Nominated member of the Editorial Board of Functions of Language (John Benjamins).
      • 2016. Gómez-González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Language and Emotion. Madrid, Spain. 23-25 November 2016.
      • 2016. Gómez-González, M. Á. [Plenary talk]. Exploring Tag Questions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. VDOCS 2016 Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies Conference. University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. 24-25 October 2016.
      • 2015. Gómez-González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Scientific Committee of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2015). Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden. 2-5 September 2015.
      • 2014. Gómez-González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages (EMEL’14). Madrid. 6-8 October 2014.
      • 2014. Gómez-González, M. Á. Invited to chair the Symposium The Linguistic Expression of Emotion. Second International Discourse Linguistics Forum. Università di Bergamo (Italy). 17-18 July 2014.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, L. [Invited talk]. Estrutura e aplicações da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional. Universidade de São Paulo. 24 October 2013.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, J. L. [Invited talk]. Estrutura e aplicações da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional’. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Câmpus Araraquara. 24 September 2013.
      • 2013. Gómez-González, M. Á. Nominated member of the Assessment Committees of The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA). 25 February 2013.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, J. L. [Invited colloquium]. Journées d’étude “La prédication: notion inutile ou indispensable?. Université Lyon, France. 17-18 January 2013.
      • 2013. Taboada, M.[Plenary talk]. Contrasting opinions: Appraisal in a multilingual corpus. Genre- and Register-Related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora. Brussels. 11-12 January 2013.
      • 2013. Gómez-González, Á. [Plenary talk]. The question of tag questions: A Comparison across Markers, Languages and Genres. Genre- and Register-Related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora. Brussels. 11-12 January 2013.
      • 2012.Taboada, M.Implicit and explicit relations in discourse. Swiss Society of Linguistics. Lugano, Switzerland. 13-14 September 2012.
      • 2012. Some members of SCIMITAR were invited to present a symposium entitled “Quantitative Research Methods in Contrastive Linguistics” at the V European Congress of Methodology, which will be held in Santiago de Compostela. María de los Ángeles Gómez Gonzálezwill be speaking on “Corpus-based Research Methodology in Contrastive Linguistics: Benefits and Pitfalls”, Luis Iglesias Rábade on “Corpus-based Research Methodology and Historical Linguistics”, and Susana Doval Suárez and Elsa González Álvarez on “Corpus-based Research Methodology in Second Language Acquisition Research: Parts I and II”, respectively.17-20 July 2012.
      • 2012. Gómez-González, M. A.chaired the symposium entitled “Quantitative Research Methods in Contrastive Linguistics” in the V European Congress of Methodology. Her intervention dwelt on “Corpus-based Research Methodology in Contrastive Linguistics: Benefits and Pitfalls” at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 17-20 July 2012.
      • 2012.Gonzálvez-García, F. “What Construction Grammar(s) can do for Spanish university students of English Studies?”. Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. 7 June 2012.
      • 2012.Gómez González, M. Á. Member of the FWO Review College (Research Flounders Foundation, Belgium).

      Postgraduate Courses

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      • 2016. Mackenzie, J.L.and Hengeveld, K. Introduction to Functional Discourse Grammar. Vienna, Austria. 29-30 August 2016.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L.Language production in English: syntax, discourse and dialogue. University of Vienna, Austria. 27/11-3/12 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L.Mini-course “O Componente Contextual numa Gramática Discursivo-Funcional do diálogo”. III SILF. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 25-26 August 2015.
      • 2015. Mackenzie, J.L.Language production in English: syntax, discourse and dialogue. University of Vienna, Austria. 24-30 April 2015.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, J.L.Course: ‘O Ato Discursivo na Gramática Discursivo-Funcional’. Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil. 16-27 September 2013 and 21-25 October 2013.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, J. L. Transparência na Gramática Discursivo-Funcional. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 30/9-18/10 2013.
      • 2012. Taboada, M.Course: Computational approaches to discourse. The Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics (LOT), Leiden. 7-11 January 2013.
      • 2012. Butler, C. S.Course: Statistics for linguists. University of Huddersfield, UK. 14-15 June 2012.
      • 2012. Butler, C. S. The treatment of lexical phenomena in structural-functional grammars. Presentation at course for postgraduates, University of Ghent, Belgium. 7 May 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.and Genee, I. Postgraduate course in Functional Discourse Grammar prior to the Second International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar at the University of Ghent, Belgium. 4-5 June 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.a series of four lectures to the MA students of English linguistics at the University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain.15-16 May 2012.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.Postgraduate course in functional linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Ghent, Belgium. 7-8 May 2012.


      Master's and Doctoral Examinations

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      • 2021. Gómez González, M. Á. Invitation (by Prof. Irene Doval Reija (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Xavier Gómez Guinovart (UVigo)) to be examiner of the Ph.D. dissertation submitted by Michael Lang entitled “Development and Pedagogical Applications of fan Audio-Textual English-Spanish Parallel Literary Corpus for the Study of English Phonology”.
      • 2020. Gonzálvez-García, F. Invitation (by Prof. K. Davidse, University of Leuven, and Prof. L. Vendelanotte, University of Namur) to be an external examiner of the Ph. D. dissertation submitted by Wout Van Praet (University of Leuven/University of Namur, Belgium), entitled “English specificational and predicational clauses: A functional-cognitive approach of their representational and textual organization”. 14-28 April 2020.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M. Á. Invitation (by Prof. María de los Ángeles Martínez Martínez, Complutense University of Madrid) to be an external examiner of the Ph. D. dissertation submitted by Feride Duygu Tastan (Complutense University of Madrid), entitled “The Online Glocal Identity of Turkish Native Speakers on Twitter: A Focus on Age and Gender”. 25 December 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M. Á. Invitation (by Prof. Evie Coussé and Prof. K. Aijmer, University of Gothenborg) to be an external examiner of the Ph. D. dissertation submitted by Anna Elgemark (University of Gothenborg), entitled “To the very end A contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish translations”. 20 January 2017.
      • 2016. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed president of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Beatriz Redondo Vigil entitled “Aproximación a la percepción de las consonantes inglesas por aprendices de L2: Beneficios del entrenamiento auditivo intenso”. University of Seville, Spain. 18 January 2016.
      • 2015. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed president of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by José María González Lanza entitled “Análisis diacrónico del componente interactivo en el modo visual de la comedia de situación Absolutely Fabulous“. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 18 December 2015.
      • 2015. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Mohamed Ahamijk entitled “El posicionamiento en el discurso periodístico sobre la inmigración en el periódico inglés ‘The Guardian’ y el periódico español ‘El País’: Estudio Comparativo”. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 23 November 2015.
      • 2014. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Roberto Martínez Mateo entitled “Propuesta de evaluación de la calidad en la dirección general de traducción de la Comisión Europea: El modelo funcional-componencial y las traducciones externas inglés-español”. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 15 July 2014.
      • 2013. Mackenzie, L.Examined the Master’s thesis by Ana Paula Oliveira, ‘As relações de anterioridade, posterioridade e simultaneidade temporal na lusofonia sob a perspectiva discurso-funcional’. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Câmpus São José do Rio Preto. 30 August 2013.
      • 2013. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Pablo García-Pombo Fernández entitled “Estudio Pragmático del vocativo en griego antiguo”. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 18 January 2013.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.Examined Sóstenes Rego doctoral thesis: “Descriçao sistémico-funcional da gramática do modo oracional das orações em Nyungwe”. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. 17 December 2012.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L. Examined Alice da Cruz’s thesis “Fonologia e Gramática do Nheengatú: A língua geral falada pelos povos Baré, Warekena e Baniwa”; and Zoraide dos Anjos Gonçalves da Silva’s “Fonologia e Gramática Katukina-Kanamari” at VU University Amsterdam. 24 June 2011.
      • 2011. Mackenzie, J. L.Examined Josine Schrickx’s thesis “Lateinische epistemische Partikeln: Nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet und nimirum” at VU University Amsterdam. 24 February 2011.
      • 2010. Mackenzie, J. L.was on the assessment panel for Matt Coler’s doctoral thesis, “Grammatical description of Muylaq’ Aymara” at VU University Amsterdam. 8 October 2010.
      • 2010. Juncal Soage, L.was examined on her TIT thesis, “A corpus-based study of adverbial usage in English and Spanish” at the University of Santiago de Compostela. 3 September 2010.
      • 2010. García Varela, A. P.was examined on her MA thesis “Thematic structure and the organization of journalistic discourse in English and Spanish” at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Mark = 10/10. 14 July 2010.
      • 2005. Gómez González, M. Á.was appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by María Pereiro Muñoz entitled “The interface of visual and verbal art: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis of viewers’ perception”. University of Vigo, Spain.
      • 2002. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Susana María Doval Suárez entitled “The acquisition of L2-Orthography by Galician Learners: The encoding process”. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 23 July 2002.
      • 2001. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the PhD thesis presented by Marina L. Pedreira Vilariño entitled “The noun phrase: A comparative analysis of syntactic variation in news language”. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19 January 2001.
      • 1999. Gómez González, M. Á.Appointed member of the committee that assessed the MA thesis presented by Ana María Fernández Dobao entitled “Communicative strategies used by Galician students in their learning of English as a foreign language: A case study”, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 8 October 1999.

      Others

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      • 2020. We are pleased to announce that  Dr. Luis Iglesias Rábade(English Philology) obtained another PhD in Law (“cum laude mention”) with his PhD dissertation entitled Los delitos de falsedad y su punición en los Derechos español e inglés. Estudio histórico comparado. Faculty of Law. USC. 7 October 2020.
      • 2019. We are pleased to announce that the book co-edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez Gonzálezand  Lachlan Mackenzie The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction was awarded the prestigious national XXII Rafael Monroy Research Prize for Experienced Researchers from the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). 28 March 2019.
      • 2016. We are pleased to announce that Christopher Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez García have received the AESLA 2016 Prize for experienced researchers for their book Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space at the annual meeting of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics in Alicante. 15 April 2016.
      • 2015. We are pleased to announce that Cristina Lastres López has obtained the Extraordinary Award for Academic Excellence (Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain). December 2015.
      • 2013. Scimitar has collaborated in the organization of the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC7), to be celebrated in “Het Pand”, Ghent (Belgium) on 10-13 July 2013.
      • 2012. Professor L. Mackenzieand A. Mauranen led a doctoral session on linguistics at the Eleventh Conference of the European Society for the Study of English held in Istanbul, Turkey. 4-8 September 2012.
      • 2012. We are glad to announce that Christopher Butlerwas awarded a doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad de La Rioja. Further details: Professor Butler, Doctor Honoris Causa
      • 2012. García Varela, A. P.has been awarded a three-year postgraduate grant by the Xunta de Galicia (XUGA, Plan Galego de Investigación e Crecemento 2011-2015 (Plan I2C, DOGA 203, 24/10/2011). Her PhD advisors are M. Á. Gómez-González and M. T. Sánchez-Roura.
      • 2012. Iglesias Rábade, L.was the linguistic supervisor of M. Abel Souto’s (coord.) Bilingual Legal Dictionary and Multilingual Legal Dictionary, both published in 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F. Appointed member of the organising committee of the “First International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation: LCM and FunGramKB” to be held in the Universidad Nacional a Distancia in Madrid on 4-6 July 2012.
      • 2012. Gonzálvez-García, F.is, since February 2012, member of the scientific committee of the Borealis, an International Journal of Spanish Linguistics.
      • 2012. Mackenzie, J. L.Awarded a Banco Santander fellowship to spend three months, from September to December 2012, in the Department of English at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.

      Invited talks

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      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. [Plenary lecture]. Self-prefixed verbs. 41st Annual Conference of the Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN). La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. 8-10 November 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. The syntax of an emotional expletive in English. 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (7BICLCE2017). University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. 28-30 September 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á., S.M. Doval Suárez andE. González Álvarez. Concessive patterns in online written reviews. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Zürich, Switzerland. 10-13 September 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. A descrição discursivo-funcional da negação em quatro línguas. 4º Simpósio Internacional de Linguística Funcional (SILF 4). Natal RT, Brazil. 31/5-2/6 2017.
      • 2017. Mackenzie, J.L. Negative polarity in FDG. Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Expressions of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and polarity. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 26-27 June 2017.
      • 2017. Gómez González, M.Á. [Plenary lecture]. Exploring tag questions and question tags in spoken discourse: evidence from English, Spanish and Portuguese. 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC8). Athens, Greece. 25-28 May 2017.