Associate Professor
| Name: | Carmen Portero Muñoz |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | Lingüística Cognitiva y Funcional (HUM-693) | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 88 12 | |
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| Address: | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras |
I have been an Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Philologies at the University of Córdoba since 2002. I completed my PhD in 1997 with a thesis titled ‘Intensification: study of a claseme’, supervised by Professor Kees Hengeveld from the University of Amsterdam, where I conducted research for two years. I have also completed research stays at the University of New York in Buffalo, the ‘Vrije Universiteit’ of Amsterdam, and ‘Anglia Ruskin’ University (Cambridge). Currently, I direct the Master’s program in Advanced English Studies (Literature and Cognitive Linguistics) and Bilingual Education.
My research focuses on the treatment of morpho-syntactic topics from a functional or cognitive perspective and has been developed within the framework of the PAIDI group ‘Cognitive and Functional Linguistics’ (HUM-693). In the last decade, I have published various articles on a variety of topics, with special attention to the study of morpho-syntactic processes at the interface between lexicon and syntax, such as conversion and compounding. I have also focused on the study of different derivational processes from a theoretical perspective. Many of these publications have a functional orientation and are based on the principles of Functional Discourse Grammar, while a second group of articles explores different morphological phenomena using cognitive theories, such as Construction Morphology. This second group of articles also includes research on the empirical study of conceptual metonymy in grammar and discourse, which I have carried out as part of a series of projects. In recent years, I have been developing large-scale research on adjective-noun sequences in English, together with Melanie Bell (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge). This research continues the initial project ‘A distributional approach to English Adjective-Noun sequences’, which was part of an activity funded by the European Science Foundation in 2015.
Main Publications
- 2024. Compounding processes in the language of adventure tourism. Profiling the language of adventure tourism. A corpus-assisted approach. (Ed. By Durán Muñoz, Isabel y Jiménez Navarro, Eva Lucía). Peter Lang. pp. 229-257.
- 2022. “It’s way too intriguing!” The fuzzy status of emergent intensifiers: A Functional Discourse Grammar account. Open Linguistics 8, pp. 618-649. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0210
- 2022. Forty years of metonymy: the time-measurement pseudo-partitive construction in English. In Living Metaphors and Metonymies, by Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.) [RCL 20.1: 172-194] https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00106.mun
- 2021. The English 'Time measurement construction’ as a case of gradience: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach. Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar. [Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 354], Ed. by Lucia Contreras-García and Daniel García Velasco Berlin, Boston: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 303-336. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711592-009.
- 2021. With M. Bell. Time-measurement constructions in English: a corpus-based exploration. English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues [Studies in Language Companion Series, 221], pp. 312-362. (ed. by Lotte Sommerer & Evelien Keizer). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.09bel
- 2018. Tense switching in English narratives: an FDG perspective. Open Linguistics 4-1, pp. 657-684. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0032
- 2018. Derivational morphology and the lexicon-grammar competition in Functional Discourse Grammar: An overview. Word Structure 11.1 (Special issue on Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar, ed. by C. Portero & P. Guerreo), pp. 1-13. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.3366/word.2018.0113.
- 2016. Bound lexical formatives: lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. Linguistics 54-5, pp.1017-1053. https://doi.org/DOI10.1515/ling-2016-0023
- 2016. The discourse-motivated potential of view-point adverbs in -wise: an FDG perspective. Lingua 184, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.05.010
- 2013. Noun-Noun sequences and the complement-modifier distinction: a corpus-based study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 9-1, pp. 71-107.
- 2011. Noun-Noun Euphemisms in the Language of the Global Financial Crisis. Atlantis 33, pp.137-157.
- 2003. Derived nominalizations in -ee: an RRG-based semantic analysis. English Language and Linguistics. 7-1, pp.129-159.
Research projects
- 2024-2027. Miembro del equipo de investigación del proyecto Lexical blending and cognitive modeling: Developing a theory-driven analytical database (LEBCOM)’. IP1: Sandra Peña Cervel, IP2: Francisco Gonzálvez García (Universidad de Almería).
- 2022-2023. Miembro del equipo de investigación del proyecto DicoAdventure: Diseño y desarrollo de un recurso electrónico especializado bilingüe (inglés, español) sobre el turismo de aventura a partir de marcos semánticos (Ref. UCO-1380857). (University of Córdoba, university of Granada, university of Montreal). IP: Isabel Durán García. 17,450 €.
- 2019-2022. IP2 del Proyecto PGC2018-101214-B-I00 Researching conceptual metonymy in selected areas of grammar, discourse and sign language with the aid of the University of Córdoba Metonymy Database (METGRADISL&BASE). Mineco. IP: Antonio Barcelona Sánchez. (Universidad de Córdoba, Universidad Complutense y Universidad Católica de Valencia). 30.250 €.
- 2013-2015. Miembro del equipo de investigación del proyecto FFI2012-36523 (An empirical investigation into the role of conceptual metonymy in grammar, discourse and sign language. Compilation of a metonymy database. Segunda fase). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. IP: Antonio Barcelona Sánchez. (Universidad de Córdoba, Universidad Complutense, UNED). 21.060 €.
- 2009-2011. Miembro del equipo de investigación del proyecto FFI-2008-04585/FILO (An empirical investigation into the role of conceptual metonymy in grammar, discourse and sign language. Compilation of a metonymy database). IP: Antonio Barcelona Sánchez. (Universidad de Córdoba). 52.030 €.