MARIA DEL CARMEN MELLADO BLANCO

Dr. MARIA DEL CARMEN MELLADO BLANCO is a Professor of German Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology and the Department of German Philology. She holds a Doctorate in Philology from the University of Salamanca (1997), supervised by Dr. Pilar Elena García, focusing on somatic idioms in German. Her research centers on Construction Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, and the lexicographic treatment of phraseological units in German and Spanish. She leads the FRASESPAL research group, organizing international conferences like EUROPHRAS 2019 and publishing extensively on multilingual phraseology, corpus linguistics, and cognitive approaches to idiomatic expressions.

Her academic contributions include over 50 books and edited volumes on phraseological patterns, lexicography, and contrastive analysis. Notable works include La fraseografía del S. XXI (2010) and Productive Patterns in Phraseology and Construction Grammar (2022). She actively engages in academic discourse through YouTube lectures, interviews, and collaborations with institutions like the University of Salamanca and the European Society for Phraseology.

Her work emphasizes the intersection between phraseology and construction grammar, exploring how idiomatic structures reflect cognitive models and socio-cultural contexts. She advocates for corpus-based methodologies to analyze phraseological creativity and lexicalization processes across languages.