Yolanda Fernández-Pena is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, French and German Studies at the Universidade de Vigo. Her main research interests are in language change in the recent history of the English language, particularly in the linguistic variation of verb number agreement and the syntactic characterisation of fragments, and in the provision of agreement morphology and overt subjects in L2 English in CLIL contexts in Spain.
Yolanda is the author of a monograph (Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects, Routledge 2020) and several chapters in collective volumes by international publishing houses such as Peter Lang and Springer. Her articles have been published in Atlantis, Corpora, Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English and Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
She has also been involved in the compilation and design of several corpora (APU Writing and Reading Corpus 1979–1988, The Primary Education Learners’ English Corpus, The Writing Overt Time Corpus 1979–2021). She has experience as co-editor of a collection of research articles (Peter Lang 2017) and a journal issue (English Language and Linguistics 2024).
The results of her research have been presented at a large number of (inter)national conferences. She has collaborated actively as a member of the organising committee of twelve international conferences (2012–2024) and of four conferences for early-career researchers (2015–2019). She has served as anonymous reviewer for the journals Corpora, Diacrítica, Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics, Moderna Spräk, Open Linguistics and Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada.