ANGEL LUIS JIMENEZ FERNANDEZ

Angel Luis Jimenez Fernandez is a Professor of English Philology at the University of Seville's Faculty of Philology, where he teaches courses in Generative Grammar, Contrastive Analysis of Spanish as L2 for English Speakers, and Mental Categories and Linguistic Structures. His research focuses on the syntax-discourse interface, particularly examining how information structure influences syntactic phenomena across languages.

His research spans multiple areas of theoretical linguistics, with particular emphasis on information structure in the sentential, verbal, and nominal peripheries. He investigates how discourse features interact with syntactic structures in Romance and Germanic languages, specializing in English-Spanish comparative analysis. His work addresses phenomena such as negative preposing, focus fronting, dative constructions, and subject islands, exploring how these constructions vary across languages and dialects.

His extensive publication record demonstrates consistent research productivity, with recent work examining Puerto Rican Spanish code-switching, inferential interrogatives in Spanish, and the relationship between verbal alternations and information structure. His research shows a clear trajectory from theoretical syntax to the syntax-discourse interface, with increasing attention to language acquisition and pedagogical applications.

Professor Jimenez Fernandez actively supervises doctoral students and collaborates with international researchers across Europe and the Americas. His recent conference presentations indicate ongoing engagement with cutting-edge theoretical issues in generative linguistics, particularly regarding microvariation at the syntax-discourse interface and cross-linguistic comparisons of information structure phenomena.