Ismael Iván Teomiro García

Ismael Iván Teomiro García is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Spanish National University for Distance Education (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED).

He holds a PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2011) and an MA (2005) from the Universiteit Utrecht in Linguistics, as well as an M.Sc (2005) from the Universiteit Utrecht and a BA (2001) from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Psychology.

He teaches General Linguistics, Theoretical and Applied Syntax, as well as English for Specific Purposes in different bachelor degrees at the UNED (English Studies, Spanish Language and Literature, and Psychology). He also teaches English Grammar and Lexical Analysis in two master degrees at the UNED (English Applied Linguistics and English Literature, respectively).

His research interests cover the syntax of Romance, Germanic and Celtic languages, Language Acquisition (both L1 and L2), Lexicon-Syntax Interface Phenomena (Lexical Semantics), as well as the Lexical-Conceptual interface. He has collaborated in several national research projects (FFI2011-29798-C02-01, FFI2011-23829/FILO, FFI2008-01584/FILO, HUM2005-01728). He has written several articles in national and international journals (Onomázein, Topics in Linguistics, RESLA, Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, Brathair, among others), as well as one book on Binding Theory (Axac, 2011). Currently, he is leading a research project (ICP-FUNGRAMKB) at the UNED that is focused on Construction Grammar its computational implementation. The goal is to implement the pronominal constructions of the Spanish language into FunGramKB, a knowledge base for natural language processing.

2005-2011 PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia y Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

Doctoral thesis: “Anaphors at the Interfaces. A Comparative Study of the Variation of the Anaphoric Systems of English, Dutch and Spanish” Advisors: Dra. Amaya Mendikoetxea y Dra. Olga Fernández Soriano.

2003-2005 Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics (Syntax and Psycholinguistics).

Utrechts Instituut voor Linguistiek UiL-OTS, Universiteit Utrecht (Netherlands).

Master thesis: “Control & Syntactic Chains: The Timing of PRO” Advisor: Dr. Eric J. Reuland.

2002-2005 Master of Science (MSc) in Cognitive and Applied Psychology.

Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht (Netherlands).

Master thesis: “Aphasia and the Theta System” Advisors: Dr. Frank Wijnen & Dra. Anita van Loon-Vervoon.

1996-2001 BA in Psychology.

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (Spain).

Escobar, L. & I. Teomiro (2016) The gradual acquisition of clitic “se” in Spanish L2. Topics in Linguistics 17(1): 17-29.
O'Donnell, M.; P. Rollinson; I. Teomiro & A. Mendikoetxea (2010) “Preparing a learner corpus for online distribution and search - The WriCLE corpus” In María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez & María Jesús Pinar Sanz (coords.) Modos y Formas de la Comunicación Humana. Vol.2, pp. 985-994. ISB 978-84-8427-759-0.
Romero-Pascual & I. Teomiro (2012) La relación entre estructura eventiva y rasgos temáticos: el "se" aspectual del español. Revista de Filología Románica 29.2:233-243. ISSN 0212-999-X. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2013) Some syntactic peculiarities of Irish. Brathair 13.1:56-73. ISSN 1519-905. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2013) Non-selected reflexive datives in Southern American and Appalachian English vs. Spanish. Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 21:31-47. ISSN 1133-0392 , ISSN-e 1988-3005. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2013) Variación y pseudo-opcionalidad en los verbos pronominales del español y neerlandés. Onomázein 27:144-157. ISSN 0717-1285. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2013) Low applicatives and optional “se” in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas 8:140-153. EISSN 1886-6298. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2011) Reflexivity and adjustment strategies at the interfaces. Nordlyd 37:119-149. ISSN 0332-7531. PDF
Teomiro, I. (2011) Más Allá de la Teoría del Ligamiento. Lugo: Axac. ISBN 978-84-92658-14-5.
Teomiro, I. (2010) “La inserción de anáforas-se como estrategia de ajuste en la interficie léxico-sintaxis: El caso de los verbos ergativos” In Sueiro Justel, Joaquín; Cuevas Alonso, Miguel; Dacosta Cea, Vanessa & Pérez, María Rosa (eds.) Lingüística e Hispanismo. Lugo: Axac, pp. 437-451. ISBN 978-84-92658-06-0.
Teomiro, I. (2009) Legitimación del sujeto en cláusulas no finitas del inglés y portugués europeo. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada 49:121-139. ISSN 0185-2647. PDF
Teomiro, I. & M.A. Escobar (2013) The acquisition of dative “se” in L1 Spanish and its implications for the Weak Continuity Hypothesis of Acquisition of Functional Categories. Revista Española de Lingüistica Aplicada (RESLA) 26:475-492. PDF
Teomiro, I. & M.B. Pérez Cabello de Alba (2016) Assisting the process of building a satellite ontology of mental disorders in FunGramKB using a Latent Semantic Analysis-based tool. In Periñán-Pascual, Carlos y Eva Mestre (eds.) Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation: From Theoretical and Cognitive Linguistics to Natural Language Processing. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 341-362.
Teomiro, I. & M.B. Pérez Cabello de Alba (2015) Tense in a vectorial model for the conceptualization of time. Onomázein 32: 353-371.
Teomiro, I. & C. Romero-Pascual (2012) Theta meets aspect: The Spanish aspectual “se” with consumption verbs. Topics in Linguistics 10.2:20-27. ISSN 1337-7590. PDF

24/10/2014	“The Non-Selected Dative Construction in English Dialects”. Comunicación oral. International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions. Universidad de La Rioja (Spain) (with Alba Luzondo Oyón).
16/10/2014	“A formal model of the conceptualization of time as a metaphor of space”. Comunicación oral. IX Congreso Internacional AELCO. Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
19/09/2014	“Low applicatives in the interlanguage of L2 learners of Spanish” Comunicación oral. The Romance Turn VI. Universidad de las Islas Baleares (Spain) (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
4/07/2014	“Finding a way through the population in FunGramKB with a Latent Semantic Analysis-based tool”. Comunicación oral. 3rd International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (2-4 Julio). Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia (Spain) (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
3/04/2014	“A vectorial model of the conceptualization of time”. Comunicación oral. 32 Congreso Internacional AESLA. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla (Spain) (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
3/04/2014	“Low applicatives in the interlanguage of L2 learners of Spanish”. Comunicación oral. 32 Congreso Internacional AESLA. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla (Spain) (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
27/10/2013	“Algunas peculiaridades sintácticas de las lenguas celtas”. Conferencia por invitación. VII Congreso Transfronterizo de Estudios Celtas España Portugal, Ávila (Spain).
03/07/2013	“Implementing pronominal constructions in FunGramKB to refine the Spanish-English translation process”. II International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation. Universidad de Granada (Spain).
20/06/2013	“The acquisition of low applicatives and dative “se” in L1 Spasish” Póster. Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
15/05/2013	“Low applicatives that take scope over denominal verbs: A case study of optional ‘se’ in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs”. 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Nordic Association of Linguistics and University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland).
15/05/2013	“The acquisition of low applicatives and dative ‘se’ in L1 Spanish” 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Nordic Association of Linguistics and University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland), (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
19/04/2013	“The acquisition of low applicatives and dative ‘se’ in L1 Spanish” 31er Congreso Internacional AESLA 2013: Comunicación, Cognición y Cibernética. Universidad de la Laguna (Spain), (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
22/01/2013	“Aplicativas bajas y verbos denominales: ‘se’ opcional con verbos intransitivos no anticausativos en español” XLII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid (Spain).
31/08/2012	“Pronominal verbs and interface adjustment strategies in Romance and Germanic” 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, workshop “Contrastive Studies of Verbal Valency in European Languages”. Universidad de Estocolmo (Suecia).
19/04/2012	“Pseudo-opcionalidad y variación en los verbos pronominales del español y neerlandés” X Congreso de Lingüística General. Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).
23/11/2011	“The interaction of aspect, thematic roles and eventive structure: The aspectual “se” in Spanish” Seminario impartido en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain) (with Cristina Romero).
5/11/2011	“Theta y aspecto: El se aspectual del español” I Encuentro Internacional Filología Románica Hoy. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) (with Cristina Romero).
10/10/2011	“Theta Meets Aspect: The Spanish Aspectual se” International Conference on Languages and Linguistics. University of Évora, Portugal (with Cristina Romero).
9/6/2011	“Beyond Queer Domains: Sexual Identities, Ontology and Linguistic Encoding” Comunicación oral. The 9th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Universidad de Granada (Spain) (with Ignacio María Arrieta Algarra).

2012 - 2014	Assistant advisor for the BA dissertation. BA in English Studies. Department of Foreign Philology. Faculty of Philology. National University for Distance Education (UNED Spain).
2012 - 2013	English C1 coordinator. University Center for Languages Distance Learning (CUID). National University for Distance Education (UNED Spain).

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