I am a linguist. I currently hold an Associate Professorship in Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics at the University of Oxford, together with Fellowships in Linguistics and in Modern Languages (Spanish) at Oriel College. I am a post-holder at both the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages (Sub-Faculties of Portuguese and Spanish).
Trained primarily as a theoretical syntactician in the Chomskyan paradigm, my overarching interest lies in the architecture of grammar, i.e., how the different components of our grammatical knowledge interact with each other and with the conceptual system. I enjoy hypothesizing configurational (syntactic) explanations for prima facie non-syntactic phenomena, like those of morphology and lexical semantics, and see how far they get us—quite far, I think. I have mostly worked on argument and event structure, and the syntax-morphology and -lexicon interfaces, both synchronically and diachronically. The range of particular topics comprise the expression of transition events, resultative constructions, the integration of roots in the grammatical structure, psych predicates, and the structure and formal semantics of spatial adpositions. Languages include Latin, Ancient Greek, Romance (particularly Catalan), Germanic, and Slavic.
As regards teaching, I have taught courses in introduction to linguistics and Catalan syntax at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, lectures in Ibero-Romance linguistics and tutorials in syntax and morphology at the University of Cambridge, and seminars on the syntax-morphology and syntax-lexicon interfaces in Barcelona, Braga, Cambridge, and Oxford. Please visit my Linguistics and Oriel webpages for details on my current teaching at the University of Oxford.
You can contact me at my snail- and e-mail addresses below:
Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Oriel College
OX1 4EW Oxford
United Kingdom
victor DOT acedo-matellan AT oriel DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
victoracedoma AT yahoo DOT com
Trained primarily as a theoretical syntactician in the Chomskyan paradigm, my overarching interest lies in the architecture of grammar, i.e., how the different components of our grammatical knowledge interact with each other and with the conceptual system. I enjoy hypothesizing configurational (syntactic) explanations for prima facie non-syntactic phenomena, like those of morphology and lexical semantics, and see how far they get us—quite far, I think. I have mostly worked on argument and event structure, and the syntax-morphology and -lexicon interfaces, both synchronically and diachronically. The range of particular topics comprise the expression of transition events, resultative constructions, the integration of roots in the grammatical structure, psych predicates, and the structure and formal semantics of spatial adpositions. Languages include Latin, Ancient Greek, Romance (particularly Catalan), Germanic, and Slavic.
As regards teaching, I have taught courses in introduction to linguistics and Catalan syntax at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, lectures in Ibero-Romance linguistics and tutorials in syntax and morphology at the University of Cambridge, and seminars on the syntax-morphology and syntax-lexicon interfaces in Barcelona, Braga, Cambridge, and Oxford. Please visit my Linguistics and Oriel webpages for details on my current teaching at the University of Oxford.
You can contact me at my snail- and e-mail addresses below:
Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Oriel College
OX1 4EW Oxford
United Kingdom
victor DOT acedo-matellan AT oriel DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
victoracedoma AT yahoo DOT com