Javier Pérez Guerra

Short CV

Javier Pérez Guerra is Professor of English linguistics at the University of Vigo, where he coordinates the research group Language Variation and Textual Categorisation. This group has received funding from the Spanish Research State Agency and the Autonomous Government of Galicia. Javier’s main areas of specialization are word order and information packaging in the clause; multidimensional models of register analysis as applied to earlier periods of English; the study of grammatical variation between Early Modern and Present day English by means of computational techniques; and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.