Francisco A. Cidrás Escáneo

I am a lecturer in the Department of Galician Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where I obtained my B.A. in Galician-Portuguese Philology in 1985 and a doctorate in 1991 with a thesis entitled Construcións pasivas en galego. Between 2002 and 2009 I was the co-ordinator of doctoral programmes in Galician Philology at USC, and later in Galician Linguistics in the Interuniversity Programme (which includes USC, UDC and UVigo), which was awarded a Certificate of Excellence. Since 2009, I have been the head of the Department of Galician Philology.

My research interests focus primarily on syntax. For a period I worked on passive, pronominal and impersonal construction, before turning my attention to functional relationships, from a theoretical viewpoint ("On the concept of syntactic function in a functional gramar" FoL 2012) and in terms of procedures for marking syntactic relations in Galician: verbal agreement, clitics and prepositional marking. I am also interested in the study of syntax from the perspective of language variation and change and its treatment in the history of grammar.