NOELIA
CASTRO CHAO

Noelia Castro-Chao is an Assistant Professor ('Profesora Ayudante Doctora') at the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and a member of the research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG), led by Prof. Teresa Fanego at the USC. She is a graduate in English Language and Literature (University of Santiago de Compostela), and holds an MA in Advanced English Studies and its Applications and a PhD in English Linguistics from the same University; she defended her PhD thesis in May 2020. From 2015 to 2022 she worked at the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo, and taught courses such as History of the English Language 2, English Language 1 or English Phonetics and Phonology, among others. As regards her research, her main interest is language variation and change, paying special attention to processes of syntactic change in the history of the English language. Among other topics, she has focused on the loss of impersonal constructions in Middle English (e.g. c1000, Þa cwæð he, me þyrst ‘Then he said, I am thirsty’) and on the development of impersonal verbs of desire (long, lust, thirst) in Early Modern English. She is the author of the monograph Argument Structure in Flux and has published articles in international journals such as Atlantis, Studia Neophilologica or Journal of English Linguistics. In addition, she has delivered multiple papers in national and international conferences, as well as research seminars at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at KU Leuven (Belgium). In November 2016, Castro-Chao received the 'Catalina Montes Award' to the best paper presented in the category of Language and Linguistics at the 40th AEDEAN International Conference (University of Zaragoza). As a pre- and postdoc, she carried out research as a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (September-November 2018), at the University of Vigo (June-July 2020) and at KU Leuven (January-June 2022).