Elizabeth Gielau

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elizabeth Gielau plays a role.

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Subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Gielau, Elizabeth 2021 Chapter 4. Negation and mood in epistemic contextsEast 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 IntroductionEast 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 epistemicsInquiries 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