Violeta Demonte#
| Membership Number: | 6429 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/view/violeta-demonte?pli=1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5985-667X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Emerita Full Professor, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de la Mujer, U. Autónoma de Madrid
- 2008 - 2014 Researcher (on secondment, "Comisión de Servicios" in Spanish), Institute for Language, Literature and Anthropology, Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Institute director, 2011 - 2014
- 2004 - 2007 Director General for Research, Ministry of Education and Science, Government of Spain
- 1988 - 2014 Full Professor of Spanish Language (Catedrática numeraria), Department of Spanish Philology, U. Autónoma de Madrid
- 1989 (three months) Visiting Professor, El Colegio de México (Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios)
- 1988 (three months) Visiting professor, University of Minnesota (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
- 1980 - 1988 Lecturer in Spanish Language with tenure (Profesora adjunta numeraria), Dept. of Spanish Language, U. Autónoma de Madrid
- 1975 - 1980 Lecturer in Spanish Language (Profesora adjunta interina, profesora agregada interina). Department of Spanish Language, U. Autónoma de Madrid
- 1973 - 1975 Instructor (Profesora encargada de curso), Department of Spanish Language, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- 1972 - 1973 Teaching assistant, Indiana University, Bloomington
Fields of Scholarship
- Foundations and methodology of linguistic theory
- Spanish grammar
- Lexical theory and the lexicon/syntax interface
- Formal grammar
- Theoretical linguistics
- Syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Honorary doctorate, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
- 2017 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Board of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación [National Research Council]] by appointment of the Secretary of State for Research
- 2015 Corresponding member, Real Academia Española
- 2015 - 2018 Member of the Scientific Board for the EU Program COST
- 2014 National Research Prize in Humanities (Premio Nacional de Investigación en Humanidades "Ramón Menéndez Pidal"), awarded by the Spanish government for scientific merit
- 2007 Commander with plaque, Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, awarded by the Spanish Government for activities in the fields of education, science, culture, higher education, and research
- 2004 Spanish representative to the Standing Committee for the Humanities-ESF
- 1993 (three months) Visiting researcher, University of Southern California, LA (Department of Linguistics) (awarded by the Spanish Government)
- 1984 - 1985 (one year) Visiting scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Linguistics, with a Fullbright fellowship for distinguished researchers)
