Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature ― Selected Papers from the 22nd Conference of Selim

Javier Martin Arista teaches English Linguistics at the University of La Rioja and leads a research group specializing in the morphology and lexicology of Old English (www.nerthusproject.com). Roberto Torre Alonso, Andres Canga Alonso and Inmaculada Medina Barco are Lecturers in English at the University of La Rioja. Javier Martin Arista obtained his doctorate in English from the University of Zaragoza with a dissertation entitled SVO and Passive Order in English: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives (1993) and was appointed senior Lecturer in English at the University of La Rioja in 1996. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield, UK, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, the University at Buffalo, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Toronto. He has also delivered lectures by invitation at several European and American universities, including Newcastle, Strathclyde, Sheffield Hallam, Queen Mary-London, Odense, Copenhagen and Toronto. Javier Martin Arista has published more than fifty book chapters and articles in journals specialising in theoretical linguistics, English studies and diachronic studies. Recent publications by Javier Martin Arista include A Typology of Morphological Constructions in Deconstructing Constructions (John Benjamins, 2009); Projections and Constructions in Functional Morphology: The Case of Old English HREOW in Language and Linguistics, 12/2 (2011); and Adjective formation and lexical layers in Old English in English Studies, 92/3 (2011). Roberto Torre Alonso has been a Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja, since 2008. Dr Torre Alonso is a member of the Functional Grammars Research Group at the University of La Rioja, which is currently working in the development of the Online Lexical Database of Old English Nerthus. Dr Torre Alonso wrote his PhD dissertation entitled Process Feeding in the Formation of Old English Nouns: Zero-derivation, Affixation and Compounding in December 2009. His research so far has been focused on the analysis of word-formation processes in Old English and has led to the publication of several journal articles including Morphological Process Feeding in the Formation of Old English Nouns in Slovak Association for the Study of English, 7 (2010); The Morphological Structure of Old English Complex Nouns in ATLANTIS, 33/1 (2011); and Nominal Affix Combinations in Old English: Distribution and Restrictions in Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada-RESLA, 24 (2011). Andres Canga Alonso has been a Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja, since September 2009. Previously, he was Lecturer at the University of Oviedo. He was also a teacher of EFL at the high school level for eight years. His PhD thesis received an award from the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2006. He is a member of the GLAUR research group and the CRAL (Centre for Research in the Applications of Language) and belongs to the editorial boards of the Journal of English Studies and RAEL. His research focuses on applied linguistics, especially on vocabulary acquisition in EFL instruction by means of e-mail tandem. He is also interested in the development of learner autonomy by means of the ELP and competence-based approaches. Some his most outstanding publications are Promoting Autonomy in Mixed-Ability Secondary Students through E-mail Tandem in VIAL, 3 (2006); El Portafolio como recurso para la reflexion y la autoevaluacion en alumnos con dificultades de aprendizaje in Porta Linguarum, 16 (2011); and Promoting Basic Competencies in EFL Instruction by Means of E-mail Tandem in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol 3 (2) (2012). Inmaculada Medina Barco has taught Contemporary Spanish Language and Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-2000), Renaissance and Golden Age Literature at the University of Navarre (2001-2006) and at Delhi U