Funded research projects

Between 1997 and 2003 the group received funding from the University of A Coruña (through its Vicerrectorado de Investigación) and the Autonomous Government of Galicia for research on English Medieval Dialects and the Fit-Technique (PR-404A PROY 99-145).

MuStE members have also participated in several research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture and by the Automomous Government of Galicia from 1991 to the present. These projects dealt with variation and language change, DGICYT (PB90-0370); Verbal idioms in the history of English, DGES (PB96-0955); Prepositional constructions in the history of English, DGES (BFF 2000-0492); Collocations and technical English, HUM 2005-00-562/FIL.

The group has received funding from 2003 to carry on the compilation of the Coruña Corpus and associated research on English scientific writing between the 17th and 19th centuries. The University of A Coruña and the Autonomous Government of Galicia (PGIDIT03PXIB10402PR; PGIDIT07PXIB104160PR) have provided funding for this research until 2010.

MuStE also receives some extra funding from Xunta de Galicia. Consellera de Educación e Coordenación Universitaria (2007/000145-0) and the Spanish Ministry of Science (2008-2011).

A new project on scientific discourse and women, entitled Discurso científico e muller: contexto social e variación na lingua inglesa (1700-1930) (10 PXIB 167 061 PR), has recently been provided with funding until 2013 by the Autonomous Government of Galicia (Dirección Xeral de Investigación, Desenvolvemento e Innovación da Consellería de Economía e Industria).

The Coruña Corpus: A Collection of Samples for the Historical Study of English Scientific Writing is one of the projects currently being carried out in the University of A Coruña (Spain) by the Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-based Studies in English (MuStE). The team is in the process of creating a corpus that can be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English for specific purposes...Read more.