Copulas in Spanish and Beyond
Edited by Silvia Gumiel-Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023) v, 160 pp.
Silvia Gumiel-Molina
List of John Benjamins publications in which Silvia Gumiel-Molina is involved.
Titles
New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar
Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina
This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.
2023 Introduction Copulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 251–256 | Introduction
2023 Perspectivized estar -sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish varieties Copulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 313–342 | Article
The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called innovative constructions with estar ‘be
estar
’, documented in some American varieties of Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not… read more
2016 Depictive secondary predicates in Spanish and the relative/absolute distinction Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill (eds.), pp. 139–158 | Article
This study accounts for the unacceptability of individual-level gradable adjectives as (depictive) secondary predicates on the basis of two factors: (a) the semantics of gradable adjectives—specifically the way their comparison classes are formed in the syntax, giving rise to the difference between… read more
2015 The inference of temporal persistence and the individual/stage level distinction: the case of ser vs. estar in Spanish New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Article
In this paper we propose that the differences between ser ‘beSER’ and estar
‘beESTAR’ predications traditionally associated with the individual-level/stagelevel
(IL/SL) distinction (having to do with their differing combinations with
adverbs quantifying over situations, locative and temporal… read more
2015 Ser and estar: Outstanding questions New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article