Xulio Sousa Fernández

Xulio Sousa Fernández is a lecturer in the Department of Galician Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He graduated in Hispanic Philology (Galician-Portuguese section) in 1988, and obtained a doctorate in 1999. He has formed part of ILG since 1999 and was the secretary of this research centre at USC. He is also the co-ordinator of the Galician Philology and Linguistics research group at USC.

His research focuses on the study of linguistic variation, particularly in the areas of ​​syntax and lexicon. He is a member of several research projects relating to language geography, and has been the editor of several monographs related to these research areas. He is the director of the journal Estudos de Lingüística Galega.