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Nuria Calvo Cortes

 

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 ncalvo@filol.ucm.es

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 Departamento de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y Literatura (UCM)

 

Nuria Calvo Cortés has worked as a Lecturer at Complutense University in Madrid (UCM) since 2006. In 2012 she defended her PhD Thesis in English historical linguistics, more specifically on historical cognitive semantics and syntax in the Late Modern English period. She has always shown an interest in English historical and diachronic linguistics, making use of different corpora to carry out a variety of studies. In the last few years she has concentrated on the analysis of some grammatical aspects of British novels of the 18th and 19th centuries, written mainly by women. Her research has also focused on grammatical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of petitions written in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain and signed by people belonging to some marginal groups of society, including women and prisoners.

Most recent publications

  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2021. Review of "Orality in Written texts: using historical corpora to investigate Irish English 1700-1900". Nexus, 2021 (1), pp. 64-67. ISSN: 1697-4646. https://aedean.org/wp-content/uploads/aedean-nexus-2021-01.pdf
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2020. "Maria Edgeworth’s choice of auxiliary verb in perfect tenses". TOKEN: A journal of English linguistics. Vol. 10, pp. 205-225. https://token.ujk.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/09_Token_10_2020_NC_Cortes.pdf
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2020. "Variations from letter-writing manuals: humble petitions signed by women in Late Modern London". In Manners and their transgressions in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 184-212. https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.312.09nur
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2020. “Women writers in the 18th century: the semantics of motion in their choice of perfect auxiliaries”. In Late Modern English: Novel encounters. Merja Kytö & Erik Smitterberg (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 204-218. https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.214.09cal
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2019. “Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels”. In Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia & Birte Bös (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 175-198. https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.346.09cor

Recent oral communications

  • October 2021 - 2nd Conference by The Epistolary Research Network (TERN). " 'A little tea and shuger for the voige': women petitioning for basic needs following politeness rules in early 19th century Britain".
  • September 2021 – 6th Prescriptivism Conference. University of Vigo, Spain. “And, your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray”, Prescriptive or descriptive letter-writing manuals in Late Modern England:  a promise with a clue”.
  • June 2021 - ICHLL 11 - International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. University of Logroño, Spain. "I was put to bed of a baby girl: the language of giving birth in English from the 16th century onwards".
  • June 2021 - ICEHL 21 - International Conference on English historical linguistics. University of Leiden, Holland. “To the Honble the Governors & Guardians of Exposed & Deserted Young Children”: A comparison between filling in a petition form and drafting your own in Late Modern London,
  • February 2020 - V Seminario Interacciones Socio-Cognitivas del Discurso: Discursos Emergentes y Periféricos y su Proyección Social. Autonoma University Madrid, Spain.  ‘Humble petitions to the Governors’: Women petitioners in late 18th century London.
  • September 2019 - Born Yesterday: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations into Birth, Midwifery and Childhood. University of Nottingham, UK. "Mothers as passive roles in childbirth in 18th century Britain".
  • July 2019 - 12th International Conference on (Im)Politeness. University of Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, UK. "Your dutiful and devoted Servant”: Politeness in Late Modern British petitions".
  • May 2019 - CILC, XI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus. Análisis del Discurso desde la Óptica del Corpus, University of Valencia, Spain. "Auxiliary verbs in perfect tenses in Late Modern English fiction: conservative or influenced by motion situations?"
  • May 2019 - CILC, XI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus. Análisis del Discurso desde la Óptica del Corpus, University of Valencia, Spain. " “Too old to write love letters” and “too old for romantic leads”: a contrastive corpus-based study of age collexemes in Late Modern Britain" (co-presented with Dr. Marta Nadales Ruiz)
  • April 2019 - English Historical Lexicography in the Digital Age. Focus on Social and Geographical Variation, University of Bergamo, Italy. “Yʳ Petitioner was about Three months ago Delivered of a Female Infant”: Understanding birth in 18th century England.
  • Octuber 2018 – AELCO, XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva, Universidad de Córdoba. “Too old for oysters at midnight”: age in 18th and 19th century English novels”
  • August 2018 – 14 ESSE – Universidad de Brno, República Checa, “I am Greatly Distresed at present gentlemen”: 18th and 19th century low class women in despair, a style of their own”
  • August 2018 – ICEHL XX, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Universidad de Edimburgo, Reino Unido. “I am a poor girl that has met with A Misfortune” and “We unfortunet suffers bow down to you”: similarities and differences in 18th & 19th century English petitions”
  • February 2018 – Historical Pragmatics 2018, Universidad de Padua, Italia. “Seduction and Misfortune: Politeness in Petitions by 18th century British Servants with (il)legitimate Children”
  • Octuber 2017 - Linguistic Approaches to Dialects in English Literature (LADEL), Universidad de Salamanca. “Maria Edgeworth’s gone”: Possible Reasons for her Choice of Auxiliary Verb in Perfect Tenses"
  • August 2017 – LMEC-6, The Sixth International Conference on Late Modern English, Universidad de Uppsala, Suecia. “Women Writers at the End of the Long 18th Century: The Semantics of Motion in Their Choice of Perfect Auxiliaries”
  • June 2017 – ICLAVE, International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Universidad de Malaga. “The Same Need Conveyed in Different Ways: Variation in Early 19th century English Women’s Petitions”

Projects

  • ‘Discursos Emergentes y Periféricos: Una Aproximación Crítica y Socio-Cognitiva’. Main researchers: Manuela Romano & Isabel Belmonte. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. January 2017- December 2020. FFI2016-77540-P. 2016-2020
  • ‘Reconstrucción lingüístico-cognitiva de un modelo cultural: la evolución de la "edad normativa" en la sociedad británica, según los datos proporcionados por el Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’. Main researcher: Paloma Tejada Caller. Santander-Universidad Complutense. PR26/16-20300. January 2017 – September 2018.

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