CHAO, MILAGROS

Milagros Chao obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2003. In October 2003 she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics, and between September 2005 and September 2009 she worked at the University of Santiago de Compostela as an FPU researcher, under funding from the Spanish Ministry of Education. She also stayed as a visiting scholar at the Department of English of the University of Helsinki (autumn 2007) and at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leuven (autumn 2008).

Milagros is now a teacher of English at a secondary school. She is also preparing a PhD dissertation on the origin and use of English dual-form adverbs, under the supervision of María José López-Couso.

Contact information:

E-mail: milagros.chao@usc.es

MA Dissertation (May 2006): On the origin and use of dual-form adverbs: A corpus-based approach. Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Publications:

(2009). “Does it fall short of expectations? On the origin and behaviour of the dual-form adverb short/shortly”. In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies, ed. by Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Gómez-García, Iria Pastor-Gómez & David Tizón-Couto. (Linguistic Insights Series 103). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 87-100.

(2008). "The development of dual-form adverbs: late/lately". In 25 Years of Applied Linguistics in Spain: Milestones and Challenges, ed. by Rafael Monroy & Aquilino Sánchez. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia & AESLA, pp. 623-629.

(2008). “The origin of dual-form adverbs: Grammaticalization or lexicalization?” In Proceedings of the 31st AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by María Jesús Lorenzo Modia. La Coruña: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Coruña, pp. 257-268.

(2007). “Adjectives in -ly and their homomorphic adverbs: Measuring the productivity of adjectival –ly”. In Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, ed. by María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-Rom]

conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.