29.3351, All: Obituary: Mónica Moro Quintanilla

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Subject: 29.3351, All: Obituary: Mónica Moro Quintanilla

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:33:07
From: Maria Carmen Parafita Couto [m.parafita.couto at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Obituary: Mónica Moro Quintanilla

 
With deep sadness I share the news that our beloved friend and colleague
Mónica Moro Quintanilla passed away on August 22, after a cruel disease which
she endured with courage and strength. She leaves behind her husband, her
companion since adolescence, and a very young daughter who will now have to go
through life without her wisdom and her embrace.

Mónica Moro’s academic life started at the University of Oviedo, where she
completed a BA Degree in English Philology and a teaching degree in Early
Childhood Education; she also gained a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience in
2012. In 2015, she received her PhD (cum laude) in English Philology with the
thesis Deriving the Determiner Phrase in Spanish-English and Welsh-English
Codeswitching, which earned her an Outstanding Doctorate Award in Humanities.
She held periods of lectureship at the University Jaume I, the University of
Cantabria and the University of the Basque Country, and participated for four
years in a research project in the University of Wales at Bangor (ESRC Centre
for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice). In 2012 she was hired
back by the University of Oviedo as an Associate Lecturer. At the time of her
death she was a PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of English, French
and German Philology and a member of the research group LINGUO (Theoretical
Linguistics at the University of Oviedo).

Despite her youth, she was a reputed scholar who produced very influential
papers (in top ranking publications) in the area of codeswitching. She mainly
focused on two language pairs, Spanish-English and Welsh-English, and her work
was pioneer in formalizing the principles behind codeswitching and in showing
that those principles are not specific to the phenomenon but also involved in
monolingual linguistic competence.

With the death of Mónica Moro the University of Oviedo has lost a dedicated
and knowledgeable scholar, but those who had the privilege to work with her
have lost much more: the company and affection of the sweetest, loyal and
sharing person ever.

 

Ana Ojea

Universidad de Oviedo

 

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Dra. Ana Ojea

Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

Universidad de Oviedo. Campus de Humanidades

C/ Amparo Pedregal s/n

33011 Oviedo. Asturias. Spain

PH +34 985 104586

aojea at uniovi.es

https://uniovi.academia.edu/AnaOjea

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Ojea/publications

http://linguo.grupos.uniovi.es/inicio
 


Linguistic Field(s): Syntax



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