MARIA JOSE LOPEZ COUSO

Maria Jose Lopez Couso is a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology and the Department of English and German Philology. Her academic work centers on English philology with a focus on syntactic structures and historical language development.

Her research interests lie primarily in English Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Corpus Linguistics, with specific expertise in finite complementation, linguistic change, and grammaticalization processes. She is a member of the research group VLCG (Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization), which investigates diachronic and structural shifts in language.

She completed her doctorate at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1994 with a corpus-based study on finite complementation in the works of John Dryden, supervised by Dr. Teresa Fanego.

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Maria Jose Lopez Couso has advised doctoral students, though specific names are not listed. There is no mention of grants or funded projects in the available information.

She is part of the research group VLCG – Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, which conducts interdisciplinary research on language evolution and structural change.