Teresa Fanego is a Spanish linguist specializing in the history of English.
[1] Fanego initially studied Germanic philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, receiving her PhD in English linguistics from the same institution in 1978 after a year spent studying at University College London on a British Council scholarship (1975–76).
[1] In 2018 she was the recipient of a double festschrift containing contributions by David Denison and Raymond Hickey among many others.
[1] She was an early adopter of corpus-linguistic methods in historical linguistics, with research interests in corpus design, compilation and types as well as corpus-based studies of grammatical variation.
[5] She has further research interests in the morphosyntax of contemporary English, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar.