Notes on Contributors
Elizabeth Closs Traugott (Stanford University) has contributed to the development of theories of grammaticalization (Hopper/Traugott, Grammaticalization, 2003) and diachronic construction grammar (Traugott/Trousdale, Constructionalization and Constructional Changes, 2013). She is currently researching constructional perspectives on the development of discourse markers.
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (The University of Manchester) is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester and Elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 2013. Her current research interests focus on the characterization of pragmatic cycles in a theory of language change.
Ana Llopis (University of Valencia) is Profesor Ayudante at the University of Valencia, Spain. Her research focuses on the synchronic and diachronic description of Spanish discourse markers, especially from 1800 on. She has also worked on the influence of discourse traditions on the grammaticalization of discourse markers.
David Paul Gerards (University of Zurich) is PhD student in the program “URPP Language and Space” at the University of Zurich. His research interests focus on the synchronic and diachronic study of determiners in Ibero-Romance languages.
Johannes Kabatek (University of Zurich) is professor of Ibero-Romance linguistics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His areas of research include synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages. For more information see
Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Madrid Complutense University) is postdoctoral fellow researcher at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. His research focuses mainly on grammaticalization processes in the history of Spanish and the historical dialectology of hispanic varieties.
Mar Garachana (University of Barcelona) is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include Historical Semantics, and the grammaticalization and creation of new constructions from the perspective of the cognitive and functional framework.
Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga (Madrid Complutense University) is Associate Professor at the Romance Studies Department at the Complutense University of Madrid and Managing Director at the Complutense Center for Spanish. She was awarded with a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg and has developed an international career as visiting scholar in other European Universities. Her research interests are in the fields of Acquisitional, Contrastive and Text Linguistics.
Piera Molinelli (Bergamo University) is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Her research areas include Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, the history of Latin and old Italian, discourse and pragmatic markers, grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, language contact and multilingualism.
Ulrich Detges (University of Munich) is Professor in Romance Philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München since 2003. He studied French and History at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the École Normale Supérieure (1977–1984), and earned his Ph.D. at the Freie Universität Berlin (1992). He got his State Examination for Higher Level Education in 1996 and his Habilitation degree at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2001).
Paul Gévaudan (Paderborn University) is Professor of Spanish and French at the University of Paderborn. His research interests focus on the typology and the syntax of of Romance languages. Other research interests include Historical Linguistics and Lexicography.
Salvador Pons Bordería (University of Valencia) is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Valencia and founding member of the Val.Es.Co. Research Group. He is also co-founder of the company Tecnolingüística (
Inés Recio (University of Heidelberg) is a lecturer at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting of Heidelberg University and a member of the research group Diskurspartikeln und Kognition (DPKog). She is currently working on discourse markers, L1 and L2 Pragmatics and Experimental Linguistics.
Laura Nadal (University of Heidelberg) is a lecturer of Translation, Translation Sciences and Spanish linguistics at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting of Heidelberg University and a member of the research group DPKog. Her research focuses on discourse markers, Experimental Linguistics and academic discourse.
Óscar Loureda (University of Heidelberg) is full professor of Translation Studies and Spanish Linguistics at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting of Heidelberg University. He has carried out and published extensive research on Text Linguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, Spanish studies and discourse markers, and leads the research group DPKog.