Elizabeth Gielau

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elizabeth Gielau is involved.

Title

East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky

Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 33] 2021. viii, 217 pp. | open access

Articles

Gielau, Elizabeth 2021 Chapter 4. Negation and mood in epistemic contexts East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau (eds.), pp. 83–92 | Chapter

This squib examines mood contrasts in Spanish and (Modern) Greek. It is argued that the dual interpretation of negation, first analyzed in Horn’s (1989) seminal work, can provide new insights for mood contrasts in negated epistemic contexts. I show that metalinguistic (narrow-scope) negation of… read more

Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau 2021 Introduction East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Gielau, Elizabeth 2016 On the mistaken identity of negated epistemics Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 111–130 | Article

The focus of this paper is the characterization of Spanish subjunctive complements to negated epistemic predicates (e.g., creer ‘to believe’), other negated predicates (e.g., ver ‘to see’), and emotive predicates (e.g., lamentar ‘to regret’). I illustrate that various properties of subjunctive… read more