García-Miguel Gallego, José María

Bachelor’s degree final project topics

• Corpus linguistics
• Speech analysis
• Syntax and semantics

Teaching

• V01G430V01121 Linguistics: Introduction to language study
• V01M126V01102 Corpus Linguistics
• V01G430V01222 / V01G181V01215 Language Technologies

Related subjects

• Linguistic theories and methods
• Linguistic typology

Brief CV

He earned a PhD in Linguistics from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (1992) with a dissertation entitled Aspectos de la estructura de la cláusula: Transitividad y complementación preposicional en español. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Spanish Philology from the same university in 1982, where he also defended his bachelor’s thesis: A propósito de la transitividad y la diátesis: las construcciones pronominales con verbos transitivos (1983).

His research has focused on the study of grammatical relations, verbal valency, and diathesis alternations. He has approached these topics from both an intralinguistic, corpus-based perspective, and a typological perspective, which considers interlinguistic variation and the general principles underlying similarities and differences among languages.

His publications include the monographs Transitividad y complementación preposicional en español (1995) and Las relaciones gramaticales entre predicado y participantes (1995). He has also published articles and book chapters on the structure and meaning of clausal constructions, verbal valency, syntactic and semantic functions, clitic pronouns, middle voice, and diathesis alternations, among others.

Between 2002 and 2012, he coordinated several research projects exploring the integration of verbal meaning into alternative constructional patterns using a corpus-based empirical approach. These projects resulted in a database of verbs, diathesis alternations, and syntactic-semantic patterns of Spanish called ADESSE (http://adesse.uvigo.es). This database records, within a corpus, the constructional alternations of each verbal meaning and each semantic class of verbs.

More recently, his research has also focused on sign languages, leading to the co-direction with Carmen Cabeza of two projects (RADIS and RADIS+) on syntactic structures in the Spanish sign language (LSE). These projects involve the compilation and annotation of a linguistic corpus in LSE. The annotation follows a system of identificatory glosses that link lexical expressions with their lemmas. A further level of annotation captures morphosyntactic characteristics of expressions and links each predicate to its argument structure. One of the outcomes is the creation of a web repository that provides access to part of the annotated corpus for those interested in LSE: https://isignos.uvigo.gal/en/.

Publications

• García-Miguel, J. M. (2023). Transitividad e intransitividad (Transitivity and intransitivity). En G. Rojo, V. Vázquez Rozas, & R. Torres Cacoullos (Eds.), Sintaxis del español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Syntax (pp. 275-288). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035633-24
• García-Miguel, J. M. (2022). Lingüística de corpus: de los datos textuales a la teoría lingüística. Estudios de Lingüistica del Español, 45, 11-42. https://doi.org/10.36950/elies.2022.45.8848
• García-Miguel, J. M., & Cabeza-Pereiro, M. del C. (2022). Argument and Verb Meaning Clustering from Expression Forms in LSE. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.806526
• García-Miguel, José M. y Carmen Cabeza (2019). Hacia un treebank de dependencias para la LSE . Hesperia 22(2). 111–143. https://doi.org/10.35869/hafh.v23i0.1657.
• Pérez, Ania; José M. García-Miguel; Carmen Cabeza (2019). Anotación de corpus para o estudo da expresión gramatical de eventos: notas sobre o deseño do proxecto RADIS. Sensos-e 6(1), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.34630/sensos-e.v6i1.3527
• Cabeza Pereiro, Carmen & José Mª García-Miguel (2018). Verbalización de eventos de movimiento y localización en lengua de señas española (LSE): un análisis de las construcciones descriptivas con clasificador de entidad. Onomázein. 41, 227-263. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.41.13
• Pérez, Ania; Francisco Eijo; Carmen Cabeza & José M. García-Miguel (2017): Hacia una tipología de clasificadores: su emergencia desde un corpus de LSE. Congreso CNLSE de la Lengua de Signos Española (Madrid, 26-27 de octubre de 2017). Dispoñible en https://www.siis.net/documentos/ficha/539016.pdf
• Cabeza, Carmen; José M. García-Miguel; Carmen García-Mateo; José Luis Alba Castro. (2016). CORILSE: a Spanish Sign Language Repository for Linguistic Analysis. LREC 2016 Proceedings, 1402-1407. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/329_Paper.pdf
• García-Miguel, José M. (2015). Variable coding and object alignment in Spanish: A corpus-based approach, Folia Linguistica 49/1, 205-256. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2015-0007
• García-Miguel, José M. (2015). Transitivity and verb classes. En E. Barrajón, J.L. Cifuentes Honrubia & S. Rodríguez Rosique (eds.), Verb classes and aspect, 288–311. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.9.13gar.