
ISMAEL IVAN TEOMIRO GARCIA
PROFESOR TITULAR UNIVERSIDAD
FILOLOGÍAS EXTRANJERAS Y SUS LINGÜÍSTICAS
FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA
(+34) 91398-6138
About me
I am Associate Professor of English language and linguistics. My teaching has primarily focused on general linguistics, as well as English grammar, syntax, semantics and acquisition of English. My research pivots around synchronic contrastive syntax and semantics, and language acquisition (L1, L2 and heritage languages).
Academic background
- PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; 2011).
- Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2005).
- Master of Science (MSc) in Cognitive Psychology (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2005).
- Bachelor degree (BA) in Clinical Psychology (BA) (Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, Spain; 2001)
Research activity
Research lines:
- Contrastive syntax and semantics of Germanic and Romance languages.
- Language acquisition (L1 & L2).
Other research interests:
- Lexicon-conceptual system interface: conceptualization and grammaticalization of time.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Semantic memory.
PhD supervision
- Noelia Burdeus Domingo. Co-supervision with Anahí Alba de la Fuente at the University of Montreal (Canada). Thesis: Language acquisition in multilingual contexts: Analysis of the acquisition of the clitic pronoun “se” in Spanish (L1, L2 & L3).
Educational management experience
- Coordinator of the BA program of English Studies of the UNED (“Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura”) (March – October 2022).
- Coordinator of Dutch at the CUID (University Center of Distance Language Teaching) (2018—2020).
- Academic Secretary of the Department of Foreign Philology & Linguistics (2019—2020).
- Academic Secretary of the BA thesis program of the BA program of English Studies of the UNED (2012-2014)
- Coordinator of English (C1) at the CUID (University Center of Distance Language Teaching) (2012-13).
Teaching
Asignaturas de Grado:
- 6402310- - GRAMÁTICA INGLESA
- 64023027 - SEMÁNTICA INGLESA
- 6201412- - ENGLISH FOR PSYCHOLOGY
- 64024110 - TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (ESTUDIOS INGLESES)
- 64023079 - SINTAXIS INGLESA
Asignaturas de Master:
- 24402334 - ANÁLISIS LÉXICO

N.º of recognized sections of teacher evaluation
2Research
INVESTIGATION GROUPS
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PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
- PID2023-152043NB-100: “Resultativas y construcciones de doble objeto: Teoría a través de la adquisición” Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Número de investigadores: 7. Investigadores principales: Olga Borik e Ismael Iván Teomiro García.
- PID2023-150347NB-100: “Expletivity and expressive meaning” Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Número de investigadores: 22. Miembro del grupo de trabajo. Investigadores principales: Xavier Villalba (UAB) y Susagna Tubau (UAB).
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2Publications
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Journals
- 2024: Heritage Spanish in Montreal: An Analysis of Clitics in Spontaneous Production Data. Languages 9(11) 355 (with Noelia Burdeus Domingo and Anahí Alba de la Fuente).
- 2022: Una aproximación contrastivo-competencial a la enseñanza de segundas lenguas. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología 44. Monograph “Fenómenos de Interferencia entre lenguas afines: avances y estado de la interlengua” (with Eva Estebas Vilaplana).
- 2020: The representation of the temporal properties of linguistic utterances through a mathematical model. Atlantis (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
- 2018: Characterizing semantic memory loss: Towards the location of language breakdown. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 76: 219-240. DOI: 10.5209/CLAC.62506 (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
- 2016: The gradual acquisition of clitic se in Spanish L2. Topics in Linguistics 17(1):17-29. DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0002 (with María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).
- 2015: Tense in a vectorial model for the conceptualization of time. (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba). Onomázein 32: 353-371, ISSN 0717-1285, DOI: 10.7764/onomazein.32.21.
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Book chapters
- 2018: Teorías Lingüísticas. Editorial UNED (with Ricardo Mairal Usón, María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba, Sandra Peña Cervel y Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez).
- 2017: Pronominal verbs in European languages: What Spanish alternating pronominal verbs reveal. In Lars Hellan, Andrew Malchukov and Michela Cennamo(eds.) Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 237. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 376-406. DOI:10.1075/la.237.12teo.
- 2016: Assisting the process of building a satellite ontology of mental disorders in FunGramKB using a Latent Semantic Analysis-based tool. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos y Eva Mestre (eds.). Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation: From Theoretical and Cognitive Linguistics to Natural Language Processing.Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 341-362 (with María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba).
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Conferences
- “On the nature of the interaction of lexis, grammar and interpretation in the LCM: Datives across levels” 2nd Conference on Linguistics Research and Dissemination, Universidad de La Rioja, 3 November 2023.
- “The expressive force of high datives”. Comunicación oral. Workshop on Fuctional Categories and Meaning Hierarchies. Centre de Lingüistica Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 22 September 2023 (con Olga Borik).
- “Commitment datives”. Comunicación oral. The 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 16). Faculty of ARts of Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), 21 September 2023 (con Olga Borik).
- “A comparative analysis of the affected dative construction”12th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). University of La Rioja (Logroño), June 2022.
- “Datives in Southern American English vs. Spanish” Comunicación oral. 43rd ADEAN Conference (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos). Universidad de Alicante, November 2019.
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Seminars
- “La gramática generativa y la revolución cognitiva” Bachelor degree of Spanish Philology. University of Extremadura, 5-9 May 2023.
- “A contrastive view of the interfaces between syntax, phonology and pragmatics in English and Spanish” Bachelor degree of English Studies. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 15 February 2023.
- Online publications Go to Publons

Other activities
Permanent education (lifelong learning)- Gramática Comparada Inglés-Español. 6 ECTS. Certificación de Formación del Profesorado (2021–now).
2022-23:
- Lingüística contrastiva inglés-español y su aplicación a la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras (coordinator with Eva Estebas-Vilaplana). 3-5 July in Alcañiz (Centro Asociado de Teruel). Presencial & on-line.
2021-22:
- Fonología y Gramática Contrastivas Inglés-Español (coordinator with Eva Estebas-Vilaplana). 15-17 June at the Centro Asociado de Mérida. Presencial & on-line.