M.Teresa Espinal - Selected Publications#
1. Tsiakmakis, Evripidis, Joan Borràs-Comes and M. Teresa Espinal, M.T. 2022. Greek non-negative ‘min’, epistemic modality, and positive bias. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (29 pp., online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09565-y
. NLLT is a Q1 journal in JCR Language and Linguistics category according to the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) metric. Tsiakmakis is Espinal's doctoral supervisee; publication exemplifies Espinal's mentoring and supervisory capacity.2. Espinal, M. Teresa, Cristina Real-Puigdollers and Xavier Villalba. 2022. From a movement verb to an epistemic discourse marker: The diachronic change of Spanish ‘vaya’. Linguistic Variation (online first). https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22006.esp
. Recent publication demonstrating breadth and ongoing development of Espinal's interests.3. Feifei Li, Joan Borràs-Comes and M. Teresa Espinal. 2022. On the interpretation of response particles ‘méi(yǒu)’ and ‘bù’ to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 200, 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.08.013
. J. Pragmatics is a Q1 journal in JCR's Language and Linguistics category according to the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) metric. Li is Espinal's doctoral supervisee; publication exemplifies Espinal's mentoring and supervisory capacity.4. Espinal, M. Teresa and Sonia Cyrino. 2022. A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance. Journal of Linguistics 58.3, 535-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222672100030X
. J. Linguistics is a Q1 journal in JCR Language and Linguistics category according to the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) metric. 5. Déprez, Viviane and M. Teresa Espinal (eds). 2020. The Oxford Handbook of Negation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198830528.001.0001
. (Includes chapter coauthored by M. Teresa Espinal and Pilar Prieto on Negation, Prosody and Gesture). 6. Espinal, M. Teresa and Susagna Tubau. 2019. Response systems: The syntax and semantics of fragment answers and response particles. Annual Review of Linguistics 5, 5.1-5.27. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012613
. Contributions to the Annual Review of Linguistics are by invitation; exemplifies recognition of Espinal's expertise by the international scholarly community.7. Espinal, M. Teresa and Jaume Mateu. 2019. Idioms and phraseology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. (37 pages). Published online: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.51
. Contributions to the ORE of Linguistics are by invitation; exemplifies recognition of Espinal's expertise by the international scholarly community.8. Espinal, M. Teresa. 2010. Bare nominals in Catalan and Spanish. Their structure and meaning. Lingua 120.4, 984-1009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2009.06.002
. Over 95 citations on Google Scholar.9. Espinal, M. Teresa. 2004. Diccionari de Sinònims de Frases Fetes. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Servei de Publicacions/Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. Second edition published 2006, Publicacions de la Universitat de València. (1586pp.). Available online at https://dsff.uab.cat/coneix
. The methodology used in developing this dictionary is explained in Espinal, M. Teresa. 2005. A Conceptual Dictionary of Catalan Idioms. International Journal of Lexicography 18.4, 509–540. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/eci034. Major contribution to the description of the Catalan language.10. Espinal, M. Teresa. 1991. The representation of disjunct constituents. Language 67.4, 726-762. Espinal's most cited article, with nearly 400 citations in Google Scholar.
