Victoria Escandell-Vidal

Victoria Escandell-Vidal is a Full Professor of Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid and former Full Professor at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) since 2007. Her research focuses on the grammar/semantics/pragmatics interface, particularly in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, covering topics like interrogative sentences, copular constructions, and evidentiality. She has served as Editor-in-chief of Revista Española de Lingüística and co-editor of the AKAL Linguistics book series.

• Research Focus: Procedural Meaning, Information Structure, Social Cognition, L2 Acquisition
• International Engagement: Invited professorial roles at universities in Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the Netherlands
• Scientific Recognition:
  • Emile Lorand Chair (2014)
  • Humanistisk Samhällsvetenskapliga Forskningsrådet Award (1996)
  • Extraordinary Doctorate & Degree Awards (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Publications: 123+ academic works including 12 Q1 journal articles and 20 publications with top 10 international publishers in the SPI ranking. Her recent work examines prosodic marking, verum focus, and tautological constructions across languages.