PhD Theses
Puig-Mayenco, Eloi. Polarity in L3 English: The Initial Stages and Beyond. Defended March, 5th 2019. Co-supervised with Prof. Jason Rothman (University of Reading and University of Tromsoe) and Dr. Ian Cunnings (University of Reading).
In progress
Eduardo Carrera Pérez. Question tags in English, Spanish and Catalan: A formal perspective (in progress).
Cynthia González Fernández. The Acquisition of SAI in Embedded Questions: From a GenSLA Account to Instruction (in progress; co-supervised with Montserrat Capdevila).
Master’s Theses (Treballs de Fi de Màster)
2024
Milana Galavanova. The expression of (in)definiteness in English-into-Russian translations of Harry Potter: a quantitative and qualitative approach. 15/7/2024.
2021
Irene Recasens. The impact of Emergency Remote Teaching during COVID-19 pandemic in an ELT context: Students’ perceptions. 15/07/2021.
2020
Aleksandra Belousova. Pros and cons of inductive and deductive grammar teaching in adults. 15/07/2020.
2018
Tran Thi Lan Anh. On the acquisition of yes/no-answers to negative questions by advanced Vietnamese learners of English as a Foreign Language.17/07/2018.
2017
Andrea Huerta Bon. On the perception of discourse functions of tag questions by Spanish and Catalan learners of English. 27/7/2017.
Anastasia Deeva. Antropomorphic metaphorical terms in oil and gas terminology in English, Spanish and Russian: A multilinguistic perspective. 28/6/2017.
2016
Kateryna Pron. Internet users’ motivational patterns for the preferences of English loanwords and Ukranian equivalents. (co-supervised with Ana Fernández). 11/7/2016.
2013
Parminder Kaur. Acquisition of Question Tags in Native English Children: an Examination of the Role of Adult Input. 26/7/2013.
BA Final Projects (Treballs de Fi de Grau)
2025
Aran Castells March. Translation and Analysis of Selected Songs from Matilda: The Musical.
Andis Madiel Féliz Méndez. Into the Words: A Brief Review of Existing Spanish Translations of Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 Musical Play Into the Woods.
Isha Habib Akhtar Nazra. The Impact Of Instagram On Contemporary English: Evolution or Transformation?
2023
Kirill Standetskiy. Analysis of the English translation in Metro 2033 Redux video game.
Estefanía Cortés Gómez. How Vikings and Normans Raided the English Language: An Examination of the Causes that Led to the Collapse of Old English Morphological System.
2022
Adam Torrent Pulgarin. The Head-Parameter and the Null-Subject Parameter Revisited.
Adrian Ruiz Benitez. The influence of Twitter on the Dialectal Variation of English.
Alejandra Nuria Pumarola Arroyo. English as a Lingua Franca in International Business Contexts.
2021
Marçal Escartín Guerrero. Historical Dialectology: The Dialects of Old English.
Maria Vendrell Morist. Exploring Case Assignation in Exceptional Case Marking Clauses: An Open Theoretical Discussion in Minimalist Syntax (Shortlisted for the “Mia Victori Award”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística)
2020
Xènia Palau Canals. An Overview of Gender in Translation.
Aina Trujillo Segura. First and Second Language Acquistion Main Theories: A Literature Review.
2019
Eduardo Carrera Pérez. Scottish English in the TV Show Outlander: How accurately does a Scottish character speak Scots?
Elisa Coll Fernández. Access to the Universal Grammar and Transfer in L2 Acquisition.
Rita Canet i Torres. A Case Study with Dual Immersion.
Mora Zolis, Thalia Christina. Mispronunciation of Spanish Speakers of English: A Case Study of a Latin Spanish Speaker of English.
2018
Lara García Gómez. Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Do-support in English: Cross-linguistic Variation.
Víctor Quevedo Ruiz. The lexical category of adjectives: Challenging the traditional notion.
Jeroni Martínez Sánchez. A synthesis of the debate around the categorization of adjectival items.
2017
Roser Forcadell Melich. Portrayal of Non-Standard English Varieties in the Media: A case study of Scottish, Indian and Chicano English. (Shortlisted for the “Mia Victori Award”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística).
Judith Grau. The Portrayal of African American English in Contemporary Media: Study of a Videogame.
Beatriz Soria Ortega. Portraying Scots: Literary Dialect in Thom’s The Tin-kin.
Sara Vallhonrat García-Valdecasas. Evaluation of Two Characters’ Performance of the Scottish English Variety in the Film Gosford Park.
2016
Laura Ruiz García. Portrayal of African American English in Mainstream Media.
Iván Pérez Montalbán. African American Vernacular English: A representation of a non-mainstream variety of English in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.
Anna Novich i Moré. Double Modals in the British Isles: Scotland and Northern England.
José Antonio Contreras Moreno. A Study on Conversion: Morphology-Syntax Boundary and Category Underspecification. (Shortlisted for the “Mia Victori Award”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística).
Sara Barragán Morata. A Study and Evaluation of Androcentric Language in Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
2015
Noemí Moreno. Prepositional Phrase recursion in Catalan young learners of English as L3.
2014
María Sol Curin. The interpretation of answers to negative questions by proficient learners of English as a foreign language.
Enric Vilaplana Espada. The controversial origin of English: Prof Dr Jan Terje Faarlund shakes up the history of the globalized language.
Jennifer Pozo Ramírez. The shocking evolution of ‘never’ and its use.
2013
Anna Maria Cuello Díaz-Mariblanca. First Language Acquisition: Overregularization in English and Spanish verbs.