Group description
The research group UCM 930235 Fraseología y Paremiología (PAREFRAS), is a national and international group, that was created in 2004 and has its core in the university Complutense of Madrid (UCM, Spain). From the beginning, many researchers of different Spanish and foreign universities participated and collaborated with this group, specially pioneers of phraseology and paremiology of Spain.
Aim of this group is the interlinguistic and interdisciplinary study of the sentenced statements and the paroemias (specially proverbs) and fixed expressions (such as phrases or collocations), oriented to the teaching of languages, the translation and the linguistics. Spanish is the link to the rest of the work languages, 21 so far.
The group started in 1996 with the interuniversity paremiologic research team, after the I International Congress of Paremiology (Córdoba, Spain), organized by the UCM and the journal Paremia (https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/paremia/).
Led by Jesús Cantera Ortiz de Urbina and his disciple Julia Sevilla Muñoz, this first team led to another team, that grew little by little in researchers. The incorporation of Prof. M.ª I. Teresa Zurdo Ruiz-Ayúcar meant the inclusion of the phraseological research. That is the reason for the current name of the group.
The PAREFRAS Group is positively evaluated by the AEI and included in the Heritage and Culture cluster (CIE, Campus of International Excellence).