Elena Castroviejo Miró

Elena
Castroviejo
Miró

Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
1010 E 59th Street
Chicago 60637

(773) 702-8522

linguistics departments

catalan and catalonia

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Chicago to develop a project on degree modification. Until August, I was a postdoc at the Graduiertenkolleg Satzarten: Variation und Interpretation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität - Frankfurt. Before that, I was a postdoc at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the project “Semantic composition with enriched lexical representations” (dir. Louise McNally). Previously, I was a doctoral fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona in a project called "Syntactic (a)symmetries in Catalan and Spanish" (Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, dir. M. Lluïsa Hernanz). I defended the PhD thesis called "Wh-exclamatives in Catalan" with supervisors Xavier Villalba and Louise McNally, and exclamatives are still my favorite object of study.

Actualment gaudeixo d'una beca Beatriu de Pinós per fer recerca postdoctoral sobre modificació de grau al Departament de Lingüística de la Universitat de Chicago. Fins a l'agost, vaig ser postdoc al Graduiertenkolleg Satzarten: Variation und Interpretation de la Universitat de Frankfurt. Abans de tenir aquesta posició vaig ser postdoc a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra en un projecte anomenat “Semantic composition with enriched lexical representations” (dir. Louise McNally). Prèviament vaig ser becària predoctoral a la Universitat de Barcelona, tot i que pertanyia al projecte de recerca "(A)simetries sintàctiques en català i castellà" (Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, dir. M. Lluïsa Hernanz). Vaig defensar la tesi titulada "Wh-exclamatives in Catalan" (codirectors: Xavier Villalba i Louise McNally) i, feliçment, les exclamatives continuen sent una de les meves dèries preferides.

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Research

I was educated as a syntactician (principles and parameters, minimalism), but with time I've grown to be a fan of semantics and pragmatics. Here is a list of topics in which I am interested:

Exclamative clauses
Expressive meaning
Semantics and pragmatics of non-declarative clauses
Syntax and semantics of degree
Sentential mood and illocutionary force
Interrogative clauses
Wh in situ

Another area in which I am interested is language diversity.

Endangered languages
Field methods
Syntactic typology

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Teaching

Sommersemester 2008: Negative Polaritätselemente (with Shin-Sook Kim).

Wintersemester 2008-2009: Syntax-Semantik Schnittstelle

Sommersemester 2009: Semantik-Pragmatik Schnittstelle

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	Work
	2010	Exclamative sentences: What's degree got to do with them? [manuscript]

		A semantic analysis of unexpectedness intonation. [manuscript]

	2009	[with Laia Mayol] "A question of misfortune". Going Romance, Radboud University Nijmegen and Université de Nice, December 3-5. [abstract] [paper]

		[with Daniel Gutzmann] "The Dimensions of VERUM". Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, September 24. [abstract] [slides] [paper]

		[with Laia Mayol] "Bundled meanings: extremely in hw-clauses". Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Université Paris Diderot, April 9. [slides]

		"A semantic analysis of unexpectedness intonation". DGfS Workshop "Expressives and other kinds of non-truth-conditional meaning" . Universität Osnabrück, March 4-6. [abstract] [slides]

		[with Laia Mayol] "Déu n'hi do quina expressió!". Suplement de Cultura del diari Avui, January 10, page 8. [article]

	2008	"Adverbs in restricted configurations". In Cabredo Hofherr, P. & O. Bonami (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics, 7: 53-76. [paper]

		Deconstructing exclamations. In X. Villalba (ed.) Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 7: 41-90. [paper]

		[with Laia Mayol] "Asserted and implicated meanings in Catalan ‘Déu n’hi do’”. Sinn und Bedeutung, 13. Universität Stuttgart, October 1st. [abstract] [slides] [proceedings]

		"An expressive answer. Some considerations on the semantics and pragmatics of wh-exclamatives". 44th CLS, University of Chicago, April 24. [slides] [proceedings (partly corrected draft)]

		[with Magdalena Schwager] "Amazing DPs". Poster-talk at SALT 18, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, March 21. [poster] [slides] [proceedings]

		"What does it take to embed an exclamative?". Talk at the Linguistisches Kolloquium Konstanz, February 14. [slides] [handout]

	2007	"Concealed exclamations. What are they and what can they tell us about embedded wh-exclamatives?". Informal talk at the Logisch-Semantisches Kolloquium. J.W. Goethe Uni-Frankfurt. November 29. [handout]

		La qüestió de les exclamatives. Llengua & Literatura, 18: 317-349. [article]

		"When adverbs cannot be interpreted as predicate modifiers". Talk at the Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris, October 5 2007, École Normale Supérieure de Paris - Institut Jean Nicod. [handout]

		“Comparison of two analyses of wh-exclamatives”. Talk at the LUSH Seminar. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, March 22. [slides]

		“Manner adverbs in exclamatives and result clause constructions”. Talk at the Generals Workshop, Universiteit Leiden, March 20.

		“Wh-exclamatives as degree constructions”. Talk at the ACLC Seminar. Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 16 . [slides]

	2006	A degree-based account of Wh-exclamatives. In Puig-Waldmüller, E. (ed.) Proceedings of the 11th Sinn und Bedeutung, September 23 2006, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [paper] [handout of the talk ] [abstract]

		PhD Thesis Wh-exclamatives in Catalan, December 15 2006, University of Barcelona. [power point presentation] [abstract] [whole thesis]

		Talk at the Workshop on gradability phenomena, April 4 2006, University Pompeu Fabra: "*How relatively amazing exclamatives are! A proposal of analysis based on the semantics of degree". [handout]

	2005	Talk at the 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, Semptember 8 2005, Université de Nantes: "What the hell is an exclamative?!". [abstract] [handout]

		Classe sobre el canvi sintàctic de les oracions exclamatives al llarg de la història. April, 14 2005, Universitat de Barcelona. [exemplari]

	2004	MA Thesis La sintaxi de les exclamatives-qu en català, September 20 2004, Universitat de Barcelona. [treball] [exemplari]

	2003	Presentació a la II Jornada d'investigació al Departament de Lingüística General: "Les frases exclamatives. Per què val la pena estudiar-les?". October 3 2003, Universitat de Barcelona. [exemplari]

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