Silvia Gumiel-Molina

List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Gumiel-Molina plays a role.

Titles

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.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics

New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar

Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina

Subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2023 IntroductionCopulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 251–256 | Introduction
Gumiel-Molina, Silvia, Norberto Moreno-Quibén and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2023 Perspectivized estar -sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish varietiesCopulas 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
Gumiel-Molina, Silvia, Norberto Moreno-Quibén and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2016 Depictive secondary predicates in Spanish and the relative/absolute distinctionRomance 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
Gumiel-Molina, Silvia, Norberto Moreno-Quibén and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2015 The inference of temporal persistence and the individual/stage level distinction: the case of ser vs. estar in SpanishNew 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
Leonetti, Manuel, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez and Silvia Gumiel-Molina 2015 Ser and estar: Outstanding questionsNew Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article