Elena Vilinbakhova, Gonzalo Escribano, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Biography
Elena Vilinbakhova is Leading Researcher at Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science and Associate Professor of Linguistics at St Petersburg State University. Her research interests include semantics, pragmatics, construction grammar, and corpus linguistics. Dr Vilinbakhova has published papers in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Language and Communication, International Review of Pragmatics. In 2016 she was awarded an Academia Europea Prize, in 2020, 2022 and 2023 – Giner de los Rios’ grants from the University of Alcalá. She participated in various national and international research projects both as PI and team member.
Gonzalo Escribano is a PhD student in Linguistics of the University of Alcalá, where he is carrying out a project focused on the Spanish copular system and its geolectal variation. His research interests include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces, as well as corpus linguistics and linguistic variation. He currently holds a ‘Research Training’ grant from the University of Alcalá. He has published papers and reviews in Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Studia Linguistica Romanica and Folia Linguistica. He has participated in several research projects as a team member.
Isabel Pérez-Jiménez is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Alcalá. Her research has focused on different aspects of Spanish syntax, analyzed from the point of view of formal linguistics. Her most recent line of work focuses on the analysis of copular and pseudocopular predication environments in Spanish, on which she has published papers in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Spanish in Context or Boletín de Filología. He has been PI of the EpsilOne Project – Evidentiality, subjectivization and perspectivization at the interfaces of Language (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation).