Avelino Corral Esteban is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of English
Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he teaches courses on Syntax,
Information Structure, and Historical Linguistics. His principal research interest is the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, which he explores on the basis of evidence
gathered from endangered Native American languages and lesser-known languages
belonging to the Romance, Germanic, and Celtic language families. He has researched
and published in such areas as theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, language
typology, and historical linguistics.
