Macarena Palma Gutiérrez is a full-time lecturer at the University of Córdoba and was previously a beneficiary of the prestigious FPU pre-doctoral programme of the Ministry of Universities. She is a member of the Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Research Group (HUM-693) and holds a PhD from the University of Cordoba. Her main areas of research are cognitive and functional grammar, the framework of constructions, semantics, pragmatic-discursive analysis, usage-based models, and corpus-based studies. She has participated in several national and international conferences, including her contribution to the 3rd International Europhras Conference 2019, where she won the prize for the best research paper in the junior category. She has completed a 3-month pre-doctoral stay (funded by a competitive grant from the Ministry of Universities) at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) in 2020, under the tutelage of Professor Dirk Geeraerts, head of the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics research group. He is an active member of academic organisations such as AEDEAN, ESSE and AESLA, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (MetBib) of the prestigious John Benjamins Publishing House. In addition, she was a member of the Organising Committee of the 42nd AEDEAN Conference 2018 and is co-editor of the post-conference volume entitled 'Advances in English and American studies: current developments, future trends'. She has also participated in several teaching and R+D+i projects funded in both national and local competitive calls, among which the one entitled 'Research on conceptual metonymy in selected areas of grammar, discourse and sign language with the help of the metonymy database of the University of Córdoba', whose Principal Investigator is Professor Antonio Barcelona Sánchez, stands out.
Main publications
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (in press). The middle construction and some machine translation issues: Exploring the process of compositional cospecification in quality-oriented middles. In J. Monti, R. Mitkov, and G. Corpas (Eds.), Recent advances in multiword units in machine translation and translation technology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (in press). Profiling and defocusing phenomena in the discourse of fe/male novelists: a corpus-based approach. In E. L. Jiménez-Navarro, and L. Martínez Serrano (Eds.), Where gender and corpora meet: New insights into discourse analysis. Hamburg: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-631-88035-7.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (in press). “Los ciervos se espantan fácilmente”: Acquisition of middle constructions in Spanish. Nuevas teorías y aproximaciones a estudios sobre lengua, lingüística y traducción. Madrid: Dykinson. ISBN: 978-84-1122- 922-7.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2022). Verbs of cutting in the middle construction: Examining the Compositional Cospecification of patientive vs. agent-instrument middles. ELUA, 38, 263-279.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2021a). Un enfoque contrastivo del sujeto +animado en la construcción media inglesa y española. In G. Corpas Pastor, M.R. Bautista Zambrana, and C.M. Hidalgo-Ternero (Eds.), Sistemas fraseológicos en contraste. Enfoques computacionales y de corpus (pp. 101-120). Albolote, Granada: Comares
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2021b). Prototype effects in the process of compositional cospecification in the middle construction. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 9, 157-172.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2019a). Symmetry in the underlying structure of the nominal and the predicate in the English middle construction: Exploring qualia structure and genericity. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 7, 170-185.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2019b). Semantic prosody in middle construction predicates: Exploring adverb + verb collocation in middles. In G. Corpas Pastor, and R. Mitkov (Eds.), Computational and corpus-based phraseology (pp. 345-359). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Palma Gutiérrez, M. (2018). Internal constraints on the English middle construction: Verb semantics and process types. In F.J. Díaz Pérez and M.A. Moreno Moreno (Eds.), Language at the crossroads: Training, accreditation and context of use (pp. 237- 250). Jaén: UJA Editorial.