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).
Nieves de la Flor Ponce. The syntax of emphasis in the productions of English by young learners (in progress).
Master’s Theses (Treballs de Fi de Màster)
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)
2022
The Head-Parameter and the Null-Subject Parameter Revisited.
The influence of Twitter on the Dialectal Variation of English.
English as a Lingua Franca in International Business Contexts.
2021
Historical Dialectology: The Dialects of Old English.
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
An Overview of Gender in Translation.
First and Second Language Acquistion Main Theories: A Literature Review.
2019
Scottish English in the TV Show Outlander: How accurately does a Scottish character speak Scots?
Access to the Universal Grammar and Transfer in L2 Acquisition.
A Case Study with Dual Immersion.
2018
Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Do-support in English: Cross-linguistic Variation.
The lexical category of adjectives: Challenging the traditional notion.
A synthesis of the debate around the categorization of adjectival items.
2017
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).
The Portrayal of African American English in Contemporary Media: Study of a Videogame.
Portraying Scots: Literary Dialect in Thom’s The Tin-kin.
Evaluation of Two Characters’ Performance of the Scottish English Variety in the Film Gosford Park.
2016
Portrayal of African American English in Mainstream Media.
African American Vernacular English: A representation of a non-mainstream variety of English in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.
Double Modals in the British Isles: Scotland and Northern England.
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).
A Study and Evaluation of Androcentric Language in Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
2015
Prepositional Phrase recursion in Catalan young learners of English as L3.
2014
The interpretation of answers to negative questions by proficient learners of English as a foreign language.
The controversial origin of English: Prof Dr Jan Terje Faarlund shakes up the history of the globalized language.
The evolution of ‘never’ and its use as a general negator.
2013
First Language Acquisition: Overregularization in English and Spanish verbs.