Associate Professor

Name:	Pilar Guerrero Medina
Position:	Associate Professor
Research group:	Lingüística Cognitiva y Funcional (HUM-693)
Telephone:	+ 34 957 21 87 65
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Address:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Anexo junto al Salón de Actos, 2ª planta

Pilar Guerrero is Associate Professor at the University of Córdoba, where she currently teaches courses on English Grammar and Linguistics. She has mainly conducted her research within a functionalist framework, focusing on the relationship between lexical semantics and grammar, on the one hand, and grammar and discourse, on the other. P.C. Hengeveld supervised her Ph.D. on Transitivity as a prototype category in Functional Grammar (an English-Spanish-German contrastive study), which was awarded by the University of Córdoba in 1997. She has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Amsterdam, Nottingham, Munich and HHU Düsseldorf. Over the past decade, she has published essays on a range of topics, including transitivity as a prototype category in grammar and discourse, aspectuality, the interaction of verbal projections and verbal constructions and morphosyntactic alternations. While her earlier publications are framed mainly within the Functional Grammar theory of Simon C. Dik, her later work also incorporates insights from the Goldbergian version of Construction Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Functional Discourse Grammar.

Pilar Guerrero is a member of the Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Research Group  (see http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/lincogf/) and is currently the English Studies Program UG Coordinator at the University of Córdoba (http://www.uco.es/filosofiayletras/gestudiosingleses/index.html.).

Main publications

• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2020) “Meaning construction and motivation in the English benefactive double object construction. Verbal and constructional semantics at work”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18.1: 94-111.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar, Torre Alonso, Roberto and Vea Escarza, Raquel (eds), (2018) Verbs, Clauses and Constructions: Functional and Typological Approaches. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2018) "Towards a comprehensive account of English –er deverbal synthetic compounds in Functional Discourse Grammar". Word Structure 11.1:  14-35.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar and Portero Muñoz, Carmen (eds), (2018) Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar (themed issue). Word Structure 11.1.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2017) "The English "conative" as a family of constructions. Towards a usage-based approach". In Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco J. et al. (eds), Constructing Families of Constructions. Analytical Perspectives and Theoretical Challenges. (Human Cognitive Processing Series 58). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 277-299.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2017) "The covert modality of 'letting' in the English middle construction". In Marín Arrese, Juana et al. (eds), Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages. Discourse-pragmatic Perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang, 219-238.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2014) "A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions". In González-Gómez, M. Ángeles et al. (eds), The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse. Applications and Implications. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 247). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 133-148.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2013) "Lexical-constructional integration in non-prototypical English middles. The role of high-level metonymy as a motivating factor".Journal of English Studies 11: 133-147.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (ed.) (2011) Morphosyntactic Alternations in English. Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.
• Guerrero Medina, Pilar (2009) "Semantic and pragmatic constraints on the English get-passive." In  Butler, Chris S. and Javier Martín Arista (eds.), Deconstructing Constructions. (Studies in Language Companion Series 107). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 271-294.

Research projects

• “Descripción de la figuración en y entre lenguas: desarrollo de una base de datos analítica interlingüística”.
  FFI2017-82730-P.
  Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness 
  2017
  Main researcher: Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza (University of La Rioja)
   01/01/2018-01/01/2021.
  Part-time researcher

PhD Theses

• Doctoral student: Macarena Palma Gutiérrez
  Title: The semantics of middle constructions: an alternation-based approach
  (Co-supervisor: Prof. Antonio Barcelona Sánchez)