Plenary speakers
(In alphabetical order)
Annalisa Baicchi (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Annalisa Baicchi is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanities-Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the University of Pavia. She obtained her MA degree in English Studies (with honors and publication recommended) from the University of Pisa and she was nominated life member of the Taylorian Institution (Oxford University) where her MA dissertation was added as a valuable adjunct to the Moore collection. She obtained four post-master degrees in Text Linguistics, English Didactics, Translation Studies, and Academic Writing. She won a Ph.D. scholarship in Linguistics of Modern Languages at the University of Pisa to research English Cognitive Semantics and won a post-doctoral scholarship in Applied Linguistics. Her main research interests are grounded in Functional-Cognitive Linguistics and include Semantics, Pragmatics, Acquisitional Construction Grammar, Lexicography, Affective Morphology, Phonosemantics, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Linguistic Stylistics. She has published close to seventy papers and book chapters in national and international journals and collections, and she has authored, edited and co-edited volumes in Pragmatics (On Acting and Thinking 2012), Translation Studies (Voices on Translation. Linguistic, Multimedia and Cognitive Perspectives 2007) and Cognitive Linguistics (Modeling Thought and Constructing Meaning 2005). She has delivered papers and lectures in many national and international conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker in a number of international conferences, doctoral programmes and summer schools. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Professor on a number of occasions, e.g. at the University of La Rioja and at the New York Nida School of Translation Studies. She has participated in the scientific and organizing committees of international conferences such as ICLC, SLE, IPrA, CRAL. She serves on the advisory and editorial boards of Explorations in English Language and Linguistics, Materiali Linguistici and RESLA, and serves as a peer referee for Atlantis, ESP, Language Science, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Revue Romane, among others. She is an Associate Editor of MetBib (John Benjamins).
Lecture: The Construction of Illocutionary Meaning
Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Philology, University of La Laguna, Spain. His areas of research interest are word-formation, lexical structure, the interaction between lexis and grammar within functional and cognitive models, and diachronic lexicology. He has been the chief researcher in several research projects dealing with these areas, and he is currently leading the project entitled Development of lexical and constructional templates in English and Spanish. Application in multilingual cross-linguistic information retrieval Systems funded by the Spanish Government (Fund no. FFI2011-29798-C02-02). He has been Director of the Institute for Linguistic Research “Andrés Bello” and leads the research group GILGLI (“Research Group on English Lexis and”) that forms part of the NeuroCog Research Network, co-funded by the Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información and ERDF. He has published over 60 research papers in Spain and abroad. He has been invited to present his research in universities and other institutions in Madrid, Las Palmas, La Rioja and Santiago de Chile among others, and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences.
Lecture: Revisiting Aktionsart types in the LCM and FunGramKB
Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Pamela Faber lectures and works in terminology, translation, lexical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Paris IV, and the University of Granada where she has been a full professor in Translation and Interpreting since 2001. She is the director of the LexiCon research group, with whom she has carried out various research projects on terminological knowledge bases, conceptual modeling, ontologies, and cognitive semantics. One of the results of these projects and the practical application of her Frame-based Terminology Theory is EcoLexicon (ecolexicon.ugr.es), a terminological knowledge base on environmental science. She has published close to 90 articles, book chapters, and books, and has been invited to present her research in universities in Madrid, Barcelona, Leipzig, Brussels, Zagreb, Mexico D.F., Lodz, and Strasbourg, among other places. She serves on the editorial and scientific boards of several journals, such as Fachsprache, Language Design, Terminology, and the International Journal of Lexicography. She is also a member of the AENOR standardization committee.
Lecture: Micro-theories of Specialized Knowledge Representation
Ricardo Mairal Usón (UNED, Spain)
Ricardo Mairal has been a Full Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages at the Spanish National Distance-Learning University (UNED) since 2002. His main areas of research interest are the architecture of the English lexicon, the representation of lexical knowledge, linguistic universals and the interactions between lexical semantics, syntax and morphology with particular reference to theoretical models, both formal and functional. He has been the head of various research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Regional Government of Madrid and has additionally participated in other projects that deal with various aspects of language research such as terminology, the compilation of lexical representations and linking mechanisms in Old English, natural language processing and the development of lexical databases for lexicography. He has co-authored or co-edited a number of books including: Nuevas perspectivas en Gramática Funcional (Ariel, 1999), Constructing a lexicon of English verbs (Mouton de Gruyter, 1999), New perspectives on argument structure in Functional Grammar (Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), En torno a los universales lingüísticos (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Linguistic Universals (Cambridge University Press). He has also published over fifty scholarly articles which have appeared in specialised national and international journals. He has served as a scientific committee member for several specialised journals, including Cuadernos de Investigación Filología, Atlantis, RESLA, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, Onomázein and Functions of Language. He has done occasional review work for Cognitive Linguistics and Language Sciences and has also been a member of the advisory committee of various international conferences on Role and Reference Grammar. He has also lectured extensively as keynote speaker at national and international conferences on Applied and Theoretical Linguistics.
Lecture: Textual Processing in FunGramKB: Interfacing the Linguistic and the Cognitive Level
Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin)
Dr. Brian Nolan is Head of Department of Informatics and Creative Digital Media at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin in Ireland. The research interests of Dr. Nolan include computational approaches to language processing, linguistic theory at the morphosyntactic-semantic interface, argument structure, valence, event structure, and the architecture of the lexicon. His linguistic work has been in the functional linguistic model of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) and he has published extensively internationally. Recent work includes the development of a rule–based Arabic to English machine translation engine with the RRG linguistic model supporting an interlingua bridge and the investigation of linguistic models to underpin Irish Sign Language avatars. Dr. Brian Nolan is the author of a book, published in 2012 by Equinox UK, on the linguistic structure of Irish in an RRG account entitled: ‘The structure of Irish: A functional account’. At present, he is co-editing two books of collected papers from international authors on ‘Linking Constructions into functional linguistics – The role of constructions in RRG grammar’ and ‘Language processing and grammars: The role of functionally oriented computational models’ to be published in late 2013 within the John Benjamins ‘Studies in Language’ Series. Dr. Nolan has 40 years experience nationally and internationally within the computer industry in a variety of senior roles and is also a widely published professional linguist.
Lecture: Extending a Lexicalist Functional Grammar through Speech Acts, Constructions and Conversational Software Agents
Annalisa Baicchi (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Annalisa Baicchi is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanities-Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the University of Pavia. She obtained her MA degree in English Studies (with honors and publication recommended) from the University of Pisa and she was nominated life member of the Taylorian Institution (Oxford University) where her MA dissertation was added as a valuable adjunct to the Moore collection. She obtained four post-master degrees in Text Linguistics, English Didactics, Translation Studies, and Academic Writing. She won a Ph.D. scholarship in Linguistics of Modern Languages at the University of Pisa to research English Cognitive Semantics and won a post-doctoral scholarship in Applied Linguistics. Her main research interests are grounded in Functional-Cognitive Linguistics and include Semantics, Pragmatics, Acquisitional Construction Grammar, Lexicography, Affective Morphology, Phonosemantics, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Linguistic Stylistics. She has published close to seventy papers and book chapters in national and international journals and collections, and she has authored, edited and co-edited volumes in Pragmatics (On Acting and Thinking 2012), Translation Studies (Voices on Translation. Linguistic, Multimedia and Cognitive Perspectives 2007) and Cognitive Linguistics (Modeling Thought and Constructing Meaning 2005). She has delivered papers and lectures in many national and international conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker in a number of international conferences, doctoral programmes and summer schools. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Professor on a number of occasions, e.g. at the University of La Rioja and at the New York Nida School of Translation Studies. She has participated in the scientific and organizing committees of international conferences such as ICLC, SLE, IPrA, CRAL. She serves on the advisory and editorial boards of Explorations in English Language and Linguistics, Materiali Linguistici and RESLA, and serves as a peer referee for Atlantis, ESP, Language Science, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Revue Romane, among others. She is an Associate Editor of MetBib (John Benjamins).
Lecture: The Construction of Illocutionary Meaning
Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Philology, University of La Laguna, Spain. His areas of research interest are word-formation, lexical structure, the interaction between lexis and grammar within functional and cognitive models, and diachronic lexicology. He has been the chief researcher in several research projects dealing with these areas, and he is currently leading the project entitled Development of lexical and constructional templates in English and Spanish. Application in multilingual cross-linguistic information retrieval Systems funded by the Spanish Government (Fund no. FFI2011-29798-C02-02). He has been Director of the Institute for Linguistic Research “Andrés Bello” and leads the research group GILGLI (“Research Group on English Lexis and”) that forms part of the NeuroCog Research Network, co-funded by the Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información and ERDF. He has published over 60 research papers in Spain and abroad. He has been invited to present his research in universities and other institutions in Madrid, Las Palmas, La Rioja and Santiago de Chile among others, and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences.
Lecture: Revisiting Aktionsart types in the LCM and FunGramKB
Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Pamela Faber lectures and works in terminology, translation, lexical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Paris IV, and the University of Granada where she has been a full professor in Translation and Interpreting since 2001. She is the director of the LexiCon research group, with whom she has carried out various research projects on terminological knowledge bases, conceptual modeling, ontologies, and cognitive semantics. One of the results of these projects and the practical application of her Frame-based Terminology Theory is EcoLexicon (ecolexicon.ugr.es), a terminological knowledge base on environmental science. She has published close to 90 articles, book chapters, and books, and has been invited to present her research in universities in Madrid, Barcelona, Leipzig, Brussels, Zagreb, Mexico D.F., Lodz, and Strasbourg, among other places. She serves on the editorial and scientific boards of several journals, such as Fachsprache, Language Design, Terminology, and the International Journal of Lexicography. She is also a member of the AENOR standardization committee.
Lecture: Micro-theories of Specialized Knowledge Representation
Ricardo Mairal Usón (UNED, Spain)
Ricardo Mairal has been a Full Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages at the Spanish National Distance-Learning University (UNED) since 2002. His main areas of research interest are the architecture of the English lexicon, the representation of lexical knowledge, linguistic universals and the interactions between lexical semantics, syntax and morphology with particular reference to theoretical models, both formal and functional. He has been the head of various research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Regional Government of Madrid and has additionally participated in other projects that deal with various aspects of language research such as terminology, the compilation of lexical representations and linking mechanisms in Old English, natural language processing and the development of lexical databases for lexicography. He has co-authored or co-edited a number of books including: Nuevas perspectivas en Gramática Funcional (Ariel, 1999), Constructing a lexicon of English verbs (Mouton de Gruyter, 1999), New perspectives on argument structure in Functional Grammar (Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), En torno a los universales lingüísticos (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Linguistic Universals (Cambridge University Press). He has also published over fifty scholarly articles which have appeared in specialised national and international journals. He has served as a scientific committee member for several specialised journals, including Cuadernos de Investigación Filología, Atlantis, RESLA, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, Onomázein and Functions of Language. He has done occasional review work for Cognitive Linguistics and Language Sciences and has also been a member of the advisory committee of various international conferences on Role and Reference Grammar. He has also lectured extensively as keynote speaker at national and international conferences on Applied and Theoretical Linguistics.
Lecture: Textual Processing in FunGramKB: Interfacing the Linguistic and the Cognitive Level
Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin)
Dr. Brian Nolan is Head of Department of Informatics and Creative Digital Media at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin in Ireland. The research interests of Dr. Nolan include computational approaches to language processing, linguistic theory at the morphosyntactic-semantic interface, argument structure, valence, event structure, and the architecture of the lexicon. His linguistic work has been in the functional linguistic model of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) and he has published extensively internationally. Recent work includes the development of a rule–based Arabic to English machine translation engine with the RRG linguistic model supporting an interlingua bridge and the investigation of linguistic models to underpin Irish Sign Language avatars. Dr. Brian Nolan is the author of a book, published in 2012 by Equinox UK, on the linguistic structure of Irish in an RRG account entitled: ‘The structure of Irish: A functional account’. At present, he is co-editing two books of collected papers from international authors on ‘Linking Constructions into functional linguistics – The role of constructions in RRG grammar’ and ‘Language processing and grammars: The role of functionally oriented computational models’ to be published in late 2013 within the John Benjamins ‘Studies in Language’ Series. Dr. Nolan has 40 years experience nationally and internationally within the computer industry in a variety of senior roles and is also a widely published professional linguist.
Lecture: Extending a Lexicalist Functional Grammar through Speech Acts, Constructions and Conversational Software Agents