Bio note

María Amparo Montaner Montava is a professor in the area of ​​General Linguistics at the University of Valencia and coordinator of the East Asian Studies area at this same University. She directed and coordinated the area in the first ten years of its existence. She has collaborated with several universities and participated in numerous conferences, both in the area of ​​Linguistics and in the area of ​​East Asian Studies, with special dedication to issues of Spanish-Japanese contrastive Linguistics. In addition, she has received scholarships from national and foreign organizations and has carried out research and teaching stays at various universities in Europe, Asia and America, such as Salamanca (Center for Spanish-Japanese Studies), University of California in Berkeley, Santa Barbara or UVA (USA), Mainz and Leipzig (Germany), Aarhus (Denmark), Waseda (Japan), Guadalajara (Mexico), etc. She has published four books and dozens of articles and chapters on theoretical linguistics and on Japanese-Spanish contrastive Linguistics and the linguistic typology of East Asian languages ​​and the Japanese language. In this last field, she has published two monographs and numerous articles and book chapters in publishers such as Tirant lo Blanch (2017, 2019) or Dickynson (2022), among others, or magazines, such as Rilce (2014), Pragmalingüística (2022), Hikma (2022), LynX (2022), etc.