Juan Carlos Acuña Farina is a Professor at the Department of English and German Philology, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is also associated with the Institute of Psychology (IPsiUS). His research focuses on psycholinguistics, syntactic processing, cognitive processes, and agreement mechanisms in language. He holds a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1994), with a thesis on appositive structures in English. His work bridges theoretical linguistics and experimental methods, investigating topics such as syntactic parsing, agreement attraction, and language processing in bilingual contexts. Notable contributions include studies on verb-subject agreement, gender retrieval in Romance languages, and the psychological underpinnings of grammatical theories. His publications span experimental psycholinguistics, syntactic theory, and cross-linguistic comparisons, with a focus on English, Spanish, and Galician. His recent work emphasizes the interplay between syntax, semantics, and cognitive mechanisms in language comprehension. Acuña Farina’s research has explored the role of morphology in agreement processing, the effects of emotional valence on syntactic ambiguity resolution, and the impact of linguistic contact on inflectional systems. He actively engages in theoretical debates on usage-based grammar and the architecture of linguistic competence.
