Dra. Natalia Judith Laso:


Natalia Judith Laso is a lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Barcelona. She has a PhD in English language from the University of Barcelona and is also a member of the GRELIC (Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics Research Group). Her research interests include corpus linguistics and lexicology. She is currently involved in a project, co-ordinated by Isabel Verdaguer, which consists in the building of a lexical database of English collocations and phraseological units used in the biomedical discourse.

She currently teaches undergraduates and postgraduates at the Department of English and German Philology. Primarily, her teaching has been in the fields of lexicology, morphology, semantics, descriptive grammar of English and lexicography. She is also in charge of a teaching innovation group (GIDC – Gramàtica i Lingüística Anglesa) that is currently developing a database (i.e. Clause Pattern Database) which gives account of the valency patterns performed by a selection of prototypical verbs.

Her research interests are in syntactic and semantic analysis of scientific discourse as well as learner corpus studies so as to explore the difficulties that English academic writing poses for Spanish writers.

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