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Santiago de Compostela
Institutional sponsors
Unión Europea
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional
“Una manera de hacer Europa”
GOBIERNO MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA DE ESPAÑA Y COMPETITIVIDAD
Organizing committee
María José López-Couso Belén Méndez-Naya Mario Cal-Varela Teresa Fanego Xabier Fernández-Polo Paloma Núñez-Pertejo Ignacio Palacios-Martínez
Student helpers
Cristina Blanco-García Tamilla Mamedova Zeltia Blanco-Suárez Beatriz M ato-Míguez Tamara Bouso Alberto Monteagudo-Buceta Yolanda Joy Calvo-Benzies Noelia Ozores-Reboiras Eduardo Coto-Villalibre Alba Pérez-González Tania de Dios María Luisa Roca-Varela Fátima Faya Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras Susana Formoso Iria-Gael Romay Vanesa Gil-Vilacoba Mario Serrano-Losada Lidia Gómez-García Iván Tamaredo-Meira Aleksandra Kaverina Vera Vázquez-López
Scientific committee
Joan Beal (Sheffield) Julia Lavid (Complutense de Madrid) Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona) Hans Lindquist (Malmö) Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven) Christian Mair (Freiburg) Holger Diessel (Jena) Gabriella Mazzon ( Innsbruck) Marina Dossena (Bergamo) Britta Mondorf (Mainz) Sebastian Hoffmann (Trier) Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) Marianne Hundt (Zurich) Dirk Nöel (Hong Kong) Merja Kytö (Uppsala) Aquilino Sánchez Pérez (Murcia) and the members of the ICAME Executive Board
Gisle Andersen (Bergen) Fanny Meunier (Louvain-la-Neuve) Kristin Davidse (Leuven) Ilka Mindt (Paderborn) Stefan Th. Gries (Santa Barbara) Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen) Hilde Hasselgård (Oslo) Pam Peters (Sydney) Magnus Huber (Giessen) Paul Rayson (Lancaster) John M. Kirk (Belfast) Ute Römer (Atlanta) María José López-Couso (Santiago) Irma Taavitsainen (Helsinki) Michaela Mahlberg (Nottingham) Sali Tagliamonte (Toronto)
ICAME 34: SPONSORS
Financial support for this event has been received from: Grant no. FFI2011-26693-C02-01: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; Principal Investigator: María José López-Couso. Grant no. CN2012/012: Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion, Autonomous Government of Galicia; Principal Investigator: Teresa Fanego. Grant no. CN2012/081: Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion, Autonomous Government of Galicia; Principal Investigator: Ignacio Palacios-Martínez.
Institutional sponsors:
Research Unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, University of Santiago de Compostela (Ref. GI-1383)
Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de SPERTUS Compostela (Ref. GI-1762)
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Dear ICAME 34 participants,
Last year in Leuven we invited you to take the pilgrim’s way to Santiago de Compostela. Now we would like to welcome you warmly to ICAME 34 (22-26 May 2013) and to our old and beautiful town in hopes that you will profit from the very promising conference sessions. ICAME 34 will confirm that English corpus linguistics is indeed on the move and will show its various and wide applications and implications . Your interest and contributions are essential to making this an inspiring and stimulating event.
We also encourage you to find some spare time here and there and do some sightseeing: to enjoy the streets and people, our food and wine, and the friendly and lively atmosphere in Santiago. We do hope that the weather will be “merciful” to us. Just in case, remember the fond old saying that “rain is art in Santiago”.
We wish you an enjoyable conference,
The ICAME 34 organizing committee
María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Mario Cal-Varela, Teresa Fanego, Xabier Fernández-Polo, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez
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