Associate Professor
| Name: | Carmen Portero Muñoz |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | Lingüística Cognitiva y Funcional (HUM-693) | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 88 12 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras |
I am Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Córdoba, Spain, where I obtained a tenured position in 2002. I completed my doctorate in 1997 with a PhD. with the title 'Intensification: study of a classeme', supervised by Prof. Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam). I have been a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam, the University of New York at Buffalo and Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge), where I was awarded a grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
My research is centered on lexical and morpho-syntactic issues following functional and cognitive approaches and has been conducted within the frame of the PAIDI group 'Lingüística Cognitiva y Funcional' (HUM-693). Over the past decade I have published several articles on a range of topics, with a focus on the study of morphological processes at the interface between the lexicon and syntax, such as conversion and compounding, as well as on the study of different derivational processes from a theoretical perspective. Many of these publications have a functionalist orientation, and are based on the principles of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), while a second group of articles explore different morphological phenomena within cognitive approaches, such as Construction Morphology. This second group of articles also include some research on the empirical study of conceptual metonymy in grammar and discourse, which I have conducted as part of the project FFI 2008-04585/FILO. These articles were published in high impact journals like Linguistics, Lingua, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, English Language and Linguistics, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Word Structure and Atlantis. Over the last few years, I have developed an interest in the use of quantitative methods in linguistic research, and I am doing a large-scale corpus investigation on adjective-noun sequences with Dr. Melanie Bell (Anglia Ruskin University). This research continues the project 'A distributional approach to English Adjective-Noun sequences', funded by the European Science Foundation in 2015.
Main Publications
- 2018. Tense switching in English narratives: an FDG perspective. Open Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. 4-1, pp.657-684. ISSN 2300-9969.
- (with Pilar Guerrero Medina). 2018. Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar. Word Structure 11(1): 1-144.
- 2018. Derivational morphology and the lexicon-grammar competition in Functional Discourse Grammar: An overview. Word Structure. 11(1): 1-13.
- 2018. Are Smartphone face and Googleheads a real or a fake phenomenon: The current role of metonymy in semantic exocentricity. Conceptual metonymy: methodological, theoretical and descriptive issues, eds. Olga Blanco-Carrión, Antonio Barcelona, Rossella Pannain. [Human Cognitive Processing, 60]. John Benjamins. pp. 261-286.
- 2016. Bound lexical formatives: lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between Linguistics 54(5): 1017-1053
- 2016. The discourse-motivated potential of view point adverbs in -wise: an FDG perspective. Lingua. 184: 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.05.010.
- 2014. A constructional approach to transitional formatives: the use of –head in so-called 'exocentric' formations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 12(1): 160-192.
- 2013. Noun-Noun sequences and the complement-modifier distinction: a corpus-based study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 9(1): 71-107.
- 2011. Noun-Noun Euphemisms in the Language of the Global Financial Crisis. Atlantis. 33: 137-157.
- 2011. An FDG approach to the Swarm alternation as a case of conversion. In Guerrero Medina, P. (ed.). 2011. Morphosyntactic alternations in English: functional and cognitive perspectives. Equinox. pp. 316-338.
Research projects
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“Investigación sobre metonimia conceptual en áreas seleccionadas de la gramática, el discurso y la lengua de signos con ayuda de la base de datos de metonimia de la universidad de Córdoba” (PGC2018-101214-B-I00).
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