Maribel Romero is a Spanish professor of linguistics at the University of Konstanz.[1] In 2022, she was elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Maribel Romero
Born (1967-07-17) July 17, 1967 (age 57)
Badalona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
AwardsMember of the Academia Europaea
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD)
ThesisFocus and reconstruction effects in wh-phrases (1998)
Doctoral advisorAngelika Kratzer
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineSemantics

Education and honor

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Romero earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1998. She has worked at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Konstanz. She was elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2022 for her "sustained academic excellence".[2]

Academic research

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Romero's research falls under the umbrellas of formal semantics and pragmatics. Phenomena she has worked on include questions, quantifiers, focus, and counterfactuality. Her work includes experimental methodologies,[2] and she is a member of the major research network XPrag in experimental pragmatics.[3][4] She has led funded projects on questions, conditionals, and clausal embedding.[5]

Works (selected)

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  • Romero, Maribel (2005). "Concealed Questions and Specificational Subjects". Linguistics and Philosophy. 28 (6): 687–737. doi:10.1007/s10988-005-2654-9. ISSN 0165-0157. S2CID 62696557.
  • Han, Chung-hye; Romero, Maribel (2004). "The Syntax Of Whether/Q … Or Questions: Ellipsis Combined With Movement". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 22 (3): 527–564. doi:10.1023/B:NALA.0000027674.87552.71. ISSN 0167-806X. S2CID 170231496.
  • Romero, Maribel; Han, Chung-Hye (2004). "On Negative Yes/No Questions". Linguistics and Philosophy. 27 (5): 609–658. doi:10.1023/B:LING.0000033850.15705.94. ISSN 0165-0157. S2CID 170923456.
  • Romero, Maribel (2024-01-16). "Biased Polar Questions". Annual Review of Linguistics. 10 (1): 279–302. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-022421-064837. ISSN 2333-9683.

References

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  1. ^ "Maribel Romero – Universität Konstanz". University of Konstanz. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Academy of Europe: Maribel Romero". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Talk by XPrag.de member Maribel Romero at "Treffpunkt Sprache"!". 19 January 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  4. ^ "XPrag: People". 28 February 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  5. ^ "DFG – GEPRIS – Professorin Dr. Maribel Romero, Ph.D." Retrieved 28 July 2022.


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