Lena Baunaz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lena Baunaz is involved.

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The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins

What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 20] 2025. xv, 577 pp. | open access

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Baunaz, Lena and Anne-Li Demonie 2025 Capturing expletive negation with complex left branches: A cross-linguistic perspective Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article

In this paper, we examine the cross-linguistic syncretisms between markers of negation and ‘expletive negation’ (exn), i.e., a formal instance of negation lacking negative meaning, in fear-clauses. We argue that these syncretisms reflect structural proximity to the negative functional sequence… read more

Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Ur Shlonsky 2025 Chapter 26. Long wh questions in French: Negation doesn’t intervene where? The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 532–551 | Chapter

This study investigates the interaction between negation and wh-dependencies in French long-distance questions. An acceptability judgment experiment tested 12 conditions, comparing in situ and ex situ wh phrases in positive contexts, under matrix negation, and under embedded negation. Wh… read more

Baunaz, Lena 2017 Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood: The emotive factor Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.), pp. 9–31 | Chapter

I give a uniform account of French mood from a semantic and nano-syntactic perspective by revising the criteria for the distribution of indicative vs. subjunctive mood. I claim that the subjunctive is selected by the semantic property of emotivity encoded in the main clause verb. I develop a… read more

Baunaz, Lena and Genoveva Puskás 2014 On subjunctives and islandhood Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.), pp. 233–254 | Article

This article discusses the relation between selection, subjunctive mood and extraction facts. We show that the degree of permeability observed in subjunctive clauses with respect to, e.g., wh-extraction is apparent, and is only indirectly related to the indicative/subjunctive alternation. We… read more