Notes on Contributors
Josep Ausensi is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His main research area is the interface between the lexicon and grammar, with emphasis of the composition of meaning, aktionsart and argument structure.
Olga Borik is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Dept. of Foreign Philology of the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED). Her main research area is natural language semantics. Within the formal semantics framework, her reseach is centered on the semantics of tense and aspect, referential properties of nominal expressions in languages with and without articles, morphology and semantics of participles.
Núria Bosch is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Theresa Biberauer and Bert Vaux. Her primary research interests lie in theoretical syntax, acquisition and change. She is currently working on the acquisition of functional sequences crosslinguistically, with a special focus on the left periphery and issues surrounding categorial ontologies. She also has side interests in expressive language, the A/A′ distinction, locality and Agree.
Sebastian Buchczyk recently obtained his PhD at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences (DTCL) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research lies at the intersection of semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, with a focus on verbal mood, as well as speech acts, obviation, and verum. He is currently investigating how mood encodes (normative) commitments and shapes interpretive effects in discourse.
M.Teresa Espinal is Professor of Linguistics at the Dept. of Catalan Philology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the Center for Linguistic Theory. Her main research interests are the theory of language, the syntax-semantics and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces, and their relationship with a general theory of cognition.
Anna Kocher is Junior Professor for Digital Romance Linguistics at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her main area of research is the interaction between syntax and speech acts, and the syntactic encoding of commitment, evidentiality and epistemicity, with a particular interest on Romance languages, from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
Alda Mari is Director of Research at Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS). Her research primarily focuses on semantics and pragmatics, with particular emphasis on modality, subjectivity, speech acts, and genericity. Her research in these domains encompasses both rigorous theoretical investigation and applied advancements, particularly in the domain of natural language processing (NLP).
Nicola Munaro has been working as a Researcher in Linguistics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice since 2001. His scientific activity includes formal and comparative linguistics within the theoretical framework of generative grammar; his research interests range from comparative to dialectal syntax, both in a synchronic and in a diachronic perspective, with particular reference to phenomena involving the left periphery of the clause and the syntax-pragmatics interface.
Ismael Teomiro is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Dept. of Foreign Philology of the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED). His main research area is formal linguistics, most prominently, generative syntax and its interface with the lexicon and the interpretative system, with particular emphasis on the Spanish clitic system. He also works in the acquisition of complex predicates in English L2.
Evripidis Tsiatmakis is a postdoctoral researcher at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His main research interests include expletiveness in natural languages, the interpretative import of expletive categories, the syntax and interpretation of non-canonical negation, and the interaction of negation with non-assertive speech acts.
Xavier Villalba is Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics at the Dept. of Catalan Philology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the Center for Linguistic Theory. His core research interests are the interface of syntax with information structure and with semantics and pragmatics. He is currently involved in the study of variation in expressive meaning across Romance and Germanic languages, and in a normative approach to expressive speech acts.