i am a theoretical linguist and i work on semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. i am also interested in experimental semantics

click the links below to access manuscripts and pre-publication versions of my papers:

2009____________________________________________

grammar vs. pragmatics: carving nature at the joints

german negative indefinites and split scope: a movement account

(with klaus abels)

contextual restrictions on indefinites: spanish algunos and unos

a. giannakidou and m. rathert (eds.) quantification, definiteness and nominalization, oxford studies in theoretical linguistics 22, oup, 108-132

2008___________________________________________

the semantics of plural indefinites in spanish and portuguese

natural language semantics, 16, 1, 1-37

2007___________________________________________

restoring indefinites to normalcy: an experimental study on the scope of spanish algunos

journal of semantics, 24, 1, 1-25

2006___________________________________________

unarticulated constituents revisited

linguistics and philosophy, 29, 2, 135-166

2003___________________________________________

contextual variables

university of connecticut ph.d dissertation, storrs, ct

contextual variables as pronouns

proceedings of salt 13, r. young and y. zhou (eds.), ithaca, ny: clc publications, 240-257

only, context reconstruction and informativity

proceedings of nels 33, m. kadowaki and s. kawahara (eds.), amherst, ma: glsa publications

2001__________________________________________

quantificational subjects in questions and the a’-nature of agrSp in spanish

mitwpl 40, o. matushansky et al. (eds.), cambridge, ma

intonation, scope and restrictions on quantifiers

proceedings of wccfl 20, k. megerdoomian and l. bar-el (eds.), somerville, ma: cascadilla press, 372-385 and proceedings of the 11th colloquium on generative grammar, universidad de zaragoza, spain

pictured above: luisa in colmenar viejo, spain june 2009 (l); luisa in london, uk december 2007 (r)