Avelino Corral Esteban

Avelino Corral Esteban works as a full-time Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He teaches courses on English syntax, semantics, phonetics and phonology, psycholinguistics and contrastive linguistics in different degrees (English Studies, Modern Languages, Spanish Studies, etc.). He holds a PhD from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), a BA in English Philology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a BA in German Philology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His PhD. dissertation, entitled “A Comparative Study of English, Lakota and Cheyenne Syntax within the Role and Reference Grammar Framework”, earned the UNED Distinguished PhD. Dissertation Award in 2013.

His main areas of research interest cover the study of the grammar of the Native American languages spoken in the area of the Great Plains in the USA and Canada, (i.e. Lakota, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow, and Arapaho, among others), the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics across languages, and the comparative analysis of the syntax of Romance, Germanic and Celtic languages. He has several articles in national and international journals and editorials (RESLA, RÆL, Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, ITB, Revista de Filoloxía Asturiana, Brill, John Benjamins, Cambridge University Press).

In addition to his published research, he has also presented papers at national and international conferences including The XII AHGBI (Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland) Conference, The 31st. AESLA International Conference, The 2013 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, The 48th. Linguistics Colloquium, and The 45th. Algonquian Conference. Furthermore, he has been invited to present his research at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and University of Cambridge.

At present, he is collaborating in the national research projects Development of a virtual laboratory for natural language processing from a functional paradigm (grant no. FFI2011-53788-C3-1-P) and Telecollaborative networks for the development of transversal competences in Higher Education (EDU2014-54673-R) and leading the project Honóxease Névéstahémone aimed at the preservation and revitalization of the Cheyenne language. He was also involved in the national research project Development of a system of semantic-conceptual representation and its implementation in a bidirectional syntax-semantics linking algorithm (grant no. FFI2011-29798-C02-01) and in the Tšʰumaš Transcription Project, administered by Matthew Vestuto, Language Programme Coordinator for the Barbareño/Ventureño band of Mission Indians (Chumash) of San Buenaventura, in California, whose aim is to foster the preservation and revitalization of Tšʰumaš, an indigenous language spoken along the central and southern California Coast.

- PhD. in English Philology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2010

- BA in German Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2003

- BA in English Philology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1997

ARTICLES

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2011), "An RRG account on Lakhota and Cheyenne relative clauses", RAEL (Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada), Vol. 10, 155 - 170

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2012). "Does there exist passive voice in Lakhota and Cheyenne?", Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, Vol 7, 77 - 96

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2012). "A comparative study of three-place predicates in Lakhota within the RRG framework", RESLA (Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada), Vol. 25, 9 - 27

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2012). "An RRG analysis of questions in Lakhota", ITB Journal (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin), Vol. 22, 25 - 46

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2014). "An account of Lakota verbal affixes in transitive stative verbs", HAL-HS, Vol. 16èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2013) : Modèles et modélisation dans les sciences du langage, 1 – 12

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2014). "An analysis of transitivity in Cheyenne", Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 64 (4), 379 - 422

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2014). "Confirming assumptions made by the framework of Role and Reference Grammar through the analysis of Lakota and Cheyenne data", Wiener Linguistische Gazette, Vol. 78, 43 - 60

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2014). "The influence of the focus structure on the placement of pronominal clitics in Asturian", Revista de Filoloxía Asturiana, in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2015). "Layers and operators in Lakota", Kansas Working Papers in LInguistics 36, 1-33

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2015). "The order of Lakota verbal affixes", Dialogia 9, 4-24

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2015). "New insights into Lakota syntax: the encoding of arguments and the number of verbal affixes", Ottawa Papers in Linguistics / Cahiers linguistiques d´Ottawa, in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2016). "A study of DOM in Asturian". In Differential Object Marking and Language Contact, ed. by Anton Antonov & Alexandru Mardale, Journal of Language Contact (Brill), in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2016). "Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne". In Argument realization in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-constructions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, ed. by Brian Nolan & Elke Diedrichsen, Studies in Language Comparison Series, John Benjamins Publishing Company, in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2016). "The difficult task of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux languages". In Creating Orthographies for endangered languages, ed. by Mari Jones & Damien Mooney, Cambridge University Press, in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2016). "Tracing the development of intercultural competence in telecollaborative discourse: an analysis of evaluative language in email exchanges". In Exploring evaluative and persuasive startegies in discourse, ed. by Mercedes Díez-Prados & Antonio García-Gómez, in press

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2016). "A grammatical sketch of Cheyenne". In The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar, ed. by Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Cambridge University Press, in press

REVIEWS

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2012). "Clefts and their relatives" by Matthew Reeve. Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 185. John Benjamins. 2012, Volumen: Linguist List issue number 23.5297, University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2013). "Comanche Dictionary and Grammar (2nd Edition)" by Lila Wistrand-Robinson and James Armagost. Series: Publications in Linguistics 92. SIL International. Volumen: Linguist List issue number 24.1353, University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Corral Esteban, Avelino (2014). "Cleft structures" by Katharina Hartmann & Tonjes Veenstra. Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 208, John Benjamins. 2013. Volumen: Linguist List issue number 25.3041, University of Wisconsin-Madison

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "The syntax of Native American languages", Congreso: Semana de las Lenguas 2010, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Noviembre 2010

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Native American Indians: languages and communities", Congreso: Semana de las Lenguas 2011, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Noviembre 2011

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Phonetics and Phonology of the Native American languages", Congreso: Máster Internacional de Fonética y Fonología organizado por UIMP (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo) y CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Madrid, Spain, Enero 2012

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A comparative study of English, Lakhota and Cheyenne syntax within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar", V. Österreichische Studierendenkonferenz der Linguistik (ÖSKL), Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, Noviembre 2012

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A comparative analysis of complex Noun Phrases in English within the RRG framework", II. Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC), Queen´s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Noviembre 2012

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Some misconceptions about Native Americans", Semana de las Lenguas 2013, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Febrero 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A comparative analysis of Spanish it-clefts within the Role and Reference Grammar framework", XII. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI), University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, Marzo 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "An RRG account of the relationship between the referential structure parameter and passive voice in Lakhota and Cheyenne", 31st. International Conference, AESLA, Universidad de La Laguna, Islas Canarias, Spain, Abril 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Lakhota language tutorial", 16th. RJC, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, Mayo 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A crosslinguistic analysis of passive voice in terms of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface", 8th. Language at the Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE), University of Essex, England, United Kingdom, Junio 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Frasi scisse in South Bavarian, Cimbrian and Mócheno", 7th. International Conference Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, Junio 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Typology of complex constructions in Cheyenne: a case of nuclear juncture including a CLM", 12th. International Role and Reference Grammar Conference, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Agosto 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "The argument structure in Cheyenne", 48th. Linguistics Colloquium. Linguistic Insights: Studies on Languages, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Septiembre 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "An RRG account of verbal inflection in Cheyenne three-place predicates", I Conferencia Internacional de Lingüística, Literatura y Estudios Culturales en Lenguas Modernas, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain, Septiembre 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "On the tense-aspect-mood system of Lakota and Cheyenne", Workshop on the Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Octubre 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Coordination, Subordination, and Cosubordination in Cheyenne", 45th. Algonquian Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, Octubre 2013

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Highest Alemannic and South Bavarian: an account of the origin of it-clefts", 11th. Forum of Germanic Language Studies (FGLS), University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, Enero 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Two examples of diachronic evolution: Grammaticalization in Lakota and emergence of a new construction in Cheyenne", COLIDI, Contrastive Linguistics and Diachrony, Ghent University, Belgium, Febrero 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A study of the ditransitive construction in Asturian (´dialectu vaqueiru´)", XVI Forum for Iberian Studies (FIS), University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, Marzo 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "The difficult task of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux languages", 4th. Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment, University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, July 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "The effects of information structure on the syntax of Asturian (“dialectu vaqueiru”)", 36th. Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS), University of Westminster, England, United Kingdom, September 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "An analysis of ´wh`- questions in Cheyenne", II. International Symposium on verbs, clauses, and constructions (VCC), Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, November 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "A study of Differential Object Marking in Asturian (“dialectu vaqueiru”)", Differential Object Marking and Language Contact: International workshop of the Unity and diversity in Differential Object Marking research program sponsored by the Federation for Typology and Linguistic Universals, CNRS, INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Paris, France, December 2014

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "An account of information structure in Cornish English, Irish English and Welsh English", 2nd. Southern Englishes Workshop, University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, March 2015

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "Further evidence on the layered ordering of operators", 4th. International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), July 2015

- Corral Esteban, Avelino, "The Honóxease Project: creating materials to keep the Cheyenne language alive", 5th. Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment, Universidad of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, July 2015

- Member of the CTS, Degree in English Studies, 2012 - present, in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

- Coordinator of English, Degrees; Hispanic Studies, History, Asian and Afrian Studies, and Translation and Interpretation, 2011- present, in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

- Coordinator of English, Degree in Modern Languages, 2013 - 2014, in Universidad Complutense de Madrid

PROJECTS

- "Teaching resources for the course “Comprensión y Expresión Oral y Escrita” (FyL-L2/11)", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, desde 2011 hasta 2011, Investigador responsable: Dra. Susana Murcia Bielsa

- "Desarrollo de un sistema de representación semántico-conceptual y su implementación en un algoritmo de enlace bidireccional sintaxis-semántica" (FFI2011-29798-C02-01), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Departamento de Filología Inglesa, desde 2012 hasta 2014, Investigador responsable: Dr. Ricardo Mairal Usón

- "Tšʰumaš Transcription Project", The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS), USA, Barbareño / Ventureño Band of Mission Indians, California, USA, desde 2012 hasta 2014, Investigador responsable: Matthew Vestuto

- "Honóxease Project (Preservation and Revitalization of the Cheyenne Language)", Investigador responsable: Avelino Corral Esteban, Catherine Habegger, Roman Tadic, http://honoxease.webnode.cz/

- “Desarrollo de materiales multimedia para la enseñanza del inglés profesional y académico a estudiantes de psicología”. Red de Investigación para la Innovación Docente: Desarrollo de Proyectos Piloto para la adaptación de la Docencia al Espacio Europeo, curso 2014-15 “Comprensión y Expresión Oral y Escrita” (FyL-L2/11)

- "Redes telecolaborativas para el desarrollo de las competencias transversales en la Educación Superior –REDTELCOM" (EDU2014-54673-R) , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Investigador responsable: Dra. Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira

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