PAULA
RODRIGUEZ PUENTE

Paula Rodríguez-Puente received an MA in English Language and Literature (2004) from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a PhD in English Linguistics (2013). Between 2008 and 2012 she held a four-year FPI research grant (ref. BES-2008-002638) from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, within research project HUM2007-60706 (Between 2012 and 2016 she worked at the Department of Philology at the University of Cantabria (Spain), where she also served as Coordinator for International Relations at the Faculty of Education. Since January 2016 Paula has worked at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Oviedo. Paula has taught Spanish at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences of the University of Wolverhampton (2004-2005). She has carried out research at the Universities of Freiburg (2009), Manchester (2010), and Helsinki (2012), and at the Bodleian Library (2010), on an ESSE bursary. Paula has experience in the compilation of electronic corpora: she she cooperated in the compilation of British English legal texts for the ARCHER corpus, and has coordinated the compilation and tagging of the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR) and the Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950-2021 (CoCELD). Paula convened the Historical Linguistics panel at the annual conferences of AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (2020-2024), and also the panel Corpus-based Grammatical Studies at the annual conferences of AELINCO, the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (2018-2023). Since May 2019 she and Carlos Prado-Alonso have been editors of AELINCO’s official journal, Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL). In March 2025 she was also elected to be the next Vice-president for Research of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) for a two-year term. Paula’s research monograph The English phrasal verb, 1650-present. History, stylistic drifts, and lexicalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2019) has received from AEDEAN the Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award 2019 for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics, and from ESSE the 2020 Book Award in the category of English Language and Linguistics. She also received the Rafael Monroy Book Award 2021 from AESLA for her co-edited volume Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse (Benjamins, 2019).