Junior lecturer
email: jualorsan@uma.es
Juan Lorente-Sánchez is a junior lecturer of the Department of English, French and German Philology at the University of Málaga. He graduated in English Studies in 2016 and later obtained two Master’s degrees at the same university: the first in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2017), and the second in English Studies, Multilingual and Intercultural Communication (2018). His PhD dissertation, completed in 2022, deals with the edition, corpus compilation and philological study of Glasgow University Library, MS Ferguson 7. He has also collaborated in the compilation and POS-tagging of the Early Modern English and Late Modern English components of the so-called Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose. His research interests include manuscript studies, corpus linguistics and historical linguistics, with a particular interest in orthographic and punctuation variation.
Teaching
Juan Lorente-Sánchez specialises in English Phonetics and Phonology, teaching them at undergraduate level to students belonging to the Degree in English Studies. He has also taught English Language, several courses on English applied to International Tourism, as well as some modules at the Faculty of Education focused on pre-school and primary education.
Publications
(Forthcoming). «The Semicolon in Early Modern English Handwritten and Printed Medical Recipes». Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.
(2024). «Dodoens’ Herbal in Glasgow University Library MS Ferguson 7 (ff. 23r-48v; 59r): A Physical Description». Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 17-18: 145-175.
(2024). «‘Against the pain of the slepe splene’: Errors and Corrections in the Manuscript Copies of The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants«. Odisea: Revista de Estudios Ingleses25: 81-102.
(2024). «Past Participle Forms in Competition: -ed vs -(e)n in Historical British and American English». In Javier Calle-Martín and Jesús Romero-Barranco (eds.). Corpora and Language Change in Late Modern English.Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Main – New York: Peter Lang. 233-261.
(2024). «Spelling Standardisation in the Handwritten and Printed Copies of Two Early Modern English Documents: The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants«. In Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad, Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila and Omar Salem Ould García (eds.). Tejiendo Palabras: Explorando la Lengua, la Lingüística y el Proceso de Traducción en la Era de la Inteligencia Artificial y la Innovación Docente. Madrid: Dykinson. 40-61.
(2024). «Un análisis de la morfología flexiva en dos textos manuscritos e impresos del inglés moderno temprano». In Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez (ed.). La creatividad en las humanidades: Perspectivas singulares y universales. Sevilla: Renacimiento. 89-107.
(2024). «Punctuation in Early Modern Texts: The English Translation of Rembert Dodoens’ Herbal in Handwriting and Printing». ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies45: 60-92.
(2023). «Dating an English Handwritten Version of The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont«. In Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Natalia López-Cortés and Daniel Pascual (eds.). En Torno al Lenguaje: Nuevas Aportaciones al Estudio Lingüístico. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 21-52.
(2023). «Exploring Orthographic Distribution». In Marco Condorelli and Hanna Rutkowska (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 360-380. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2023). «Order out of Chaos: The Orthographic Standardisation of full and –ful». English Studies 104.5: 789-803.
(2023). «Rams Little Dodeon in GUL, MS Ferguson 7 (ff. 48v-58v): A Semi-diplomatic Edition». Analecta Malacitana. Revista de la sección de Filología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 44: 301-376.
(2022). «An Analysis of Line-final Word Division in Early Modern English Writing: The Case of The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants in Glasgow, University Library, MS Ferguson 7 and Printing». Nexus 2022: 73-74.
(2021). «Punctuation Practice in Two Early Modern English Versions of The Secrets of Alexis«. Gaudeamus Journal 1: 59-91.
(2021). «On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers: This and That in Some Asian Varieties of English». Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43.2: 47-67.
(2019). «‘Giue it hym to drinke’: Sobre el uso y distribución de la alternancia dativa en inglés moderno temprano». In Rosa Romojaro (ed.).Las humanidades en el mundo digital/El mundo digital en las humanidades Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch. 165-180 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2018). «‘Give it him and then I’ll give you money for it’. The Dative Alternation in Contemporary British English». Research in Corpus Linguistics 6: 15-28.
Conference papers
2025
«An Analysis of the Semicolon in Early Modern English Medical Recipes». 7th lnternational Conference on Language, Linguistics and Literature. Universidad de Cantabria, October 2nd-3rd, 2025.
«Orthographic Standardisation in English Handwriting and Printing: A Case Study of Two Early Modern Texts». 35th SEDERI International Conference. Universidad de Granada, April 2nd-4th, 2025.
2024
«The Semicolon in Early Modern English Scientific Handwriting and Printing». 47th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, November 6th-8th, 2024.
«On the Use and Distribution of the Participles -ed and -(e)n in Late Modern English». 8th International Conference on Late Modern English. Universidad de Salamanca, October 2nd-4th, 2024.
«Rams Little Dodeon in Glasgow University Library, MS Ferguson 7: A Semi-diplomatic Edition». 44th Conference APEAA. Universidade de Lisboa, June 25th-27th, 2024.
«Punctuation in Early Modern Texts: The English Translation of Rembert Dodoens’ Herbal in Handwriting and Printing». 34th SEDERI’s International Conference. Universidad de Salamanca, April 24th-26th, 2024.
2023
«Spelling Standardisation in the Handwritten and Printed Copies of Two Early Modern English Documents: The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants». IV Congreso Internacional de formación permanente Nodos del Conocimiento. Innovación, investigación y transferencias ante la era de las Inteligencias Artificiales. Virtual event, November 23rd-24th, 2023.
«Past participle forms in competition: -(e)d vs -(e)n in Historical British and American English». 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad de Oviedo, May 10th-12th, 2023.
«La morfología flexiva en dos textos manuscritos e impresos del inglés moderno temprano: un análisis estadístico».V Seminario de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Málaga, March 16th-17th, 2023.
2022
«The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants in Glasgow University Library MS Ferguson 7: A Codicological and Palaeographic Analysis». 45th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Extremadura, November 16th-18th, 2022.
«Punctuation in Early Modern English Handwriting and Printing: An Analysis of Two Versions of Dodoens’ A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants». XXXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. Universidad de Sevilla, September 21st-23rd, 2022.
«A Semi-diplomatic Edition and Corpus Compilation of Two Early Modern English Texts in G.U.L. MS Ferguson 7: The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants». 8th ASYRAS Conference. Universidad de Málaga, June 30th and July 1st, 2022.
«The Secrets of Alexis in G.U.L. MS Ferguson 7 (ff. 1r-20v): Edition and Palaeographic Analysis». 17th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS). Universidad de Oxford, March 17th-19th, 2022.
2021
«An Analysis of Line-final Word Division in Early English Scientific Handwriting and Printing». 44th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Cantabria, November 24th-26th, 2021.»
«Punctuation Practice in Two Early Modern English Versions of The Secrets of Alexis». XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. Universidad de Zaragoza, September 29th-30th and October 1st, 2021.
«Line-final Word Division in Handwriting and Printing: The Case of The Secrets of Alexis and A Niewe Herbal or Historie of Plants». II AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Universidad de Alicante, July 1st-2nd, 2021.
«Dodoens’ Herbal in Glasgow, University Library, MS Ferguson 7: A Codicological and Palaeographic Analysis». VI Jornadas Doctorales del Programa de Doctorado en Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción. Universidad de Málaga, June 21st-23rd, 2021.
«Word Division in the Handwritten and the Printed Versions of The Secrets of Alexis and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants». 7th ASYRAS Conference. Virtual event, June 17th-18th, 2021.
2020
«It’s not supposed to be this hard’ A Corpus-based Study of the Intensifying Function of this/that in New Zealand English». III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Computacional y de Corpus. University of Antioquia, October 21st-23rd, 2020.
«A Semi-Diplomatic Edition of Two Early Modern English Scientific Texts in G.U.L. MS Ferguson 7». VII Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación Lingüística (JIIL). University of Extremadura, September 10th-11th, 2020.
«Line-final Word Division in Two Early Modern English Versions of The Secrets of Alexis and A Niewe Herbal or Historie of Plants». II ASYRAS Research Workshop in English Studies. Virtual event, September 8th-9th, 2020.
2019
«Editing Early Modern English Scientific Manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 3769 (ff. 62v-84r)». 16th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship: Textual Scholarship in the 21st Century. Universidad de Salamanca, November 28th-29th, 2019 [with Miriam Criado-Peña].
«The Intensifiers this/that in Some Varieties of English». 43rd AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Alicante, November 13th-15th, 2019 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Edition and Physical Description of MS Ferguson 7 (ff. 23r-64v)». I SEDERI International Conference for Junior Researchers. Universidad de Murcia, October 9th-11th, 2019.
«Glasgow University Library, MS Ferguson 7: A Physical Description». XXXIV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. Universidad de Valencia, September 18th-20th, 2019.
«A Sociolinguistic Study of the Third Person Inflection in Early Modern English». I AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Universidad de Alcalá, July 11th-12th, 2019.
«Ditransitive Constructions in Some Varieties of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach». IV Jornadas Doctorales del Programa de Doctorado en Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción. Universidad de Málaga, June 12th-14th, 2019.
«Morphosyntactic Constructions in Competition: The Dative Alternation in Middle English». Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Morphosyntax Workshop. Universidad de Sevilla, February 5th, 2019 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
2018
«’Give it me back on our wedding day’: On the Alternative Double Object Construction in Spoken Asian Varieties of English». 1st International Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics (LingCor2018). Universidad de Valencia, December 13th-14th, 2018.
«’I gave it him in Liverpool’: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Dative Alternation in the Modern English Period». 42nd AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Córdoba, November 7th-9th, 2018.
«’Giue it hym to drinke’: Sobre el uso y distribución de la alternancia dativa en inglés moderno temprano». II Seminario Facultad de Filosofía y Letras: Humanidades y Nuevas Tecnologías. Universidad de Málaga, October 25th-26th, 2018 [with Javier Calle-Martín].