Zeltia Blanco Suarez

Zeltia Blanco Suarez is a Professor of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology and the Department of English and German Philology. She is a member of the VLCG research group (Variation, linguistic change and grammaticalization). Her doctoral thesis (2017), supervised by Dra. María José López Couso, focused on Death-related intensifiers in the history of the English language: grammaticalisation and other processes of language change.

Her research interests center on historical linguistics, grammaticalization processes, diachronic analysis of intensifiers (especially 'dead', 'deadly', and 'mortal'), and corpus-based studies of Early Modern English. She has conducted groundbreaking work on the evolution of grammatical structures in Irish English through analysis of the 1641 Depositions corpus and pioneered studies on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in primary education.

Her publications span over 15 years, consistently exploring lexical semantic change, syntactic evolution, and the interplay between context and language structure. Notable contributions include analyses of the Irish English habitual 'do V' construction and the cognitive mechanisms behind intensifier development. She has also reviewed major works in intensification studies, contributing to theoretical debates in historical linguistics.

Blanco Suarez holds no explicitly listed awards but maintains an active research agenda through participation in international conferences and collaborative projects. Her work bridges historical linguistics with contemporary corpus methodologies, offering new perspectives on language change dynamics.