María Biezma

Biographic Data

ID1026055
NAMEMaría Biezma
GIVEN NAMESMaría
FAMILY NAMEBiezma
SIGNATUREBIEZMA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
ORCID0000-0002-8755-3286
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty

    Open AccessMaría Biezma, Mamona Butt et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2025References: 36

  • Insubordinated if-clauses as discourse subordination

    Open AccessMaría BiezmaARTICLENatural Language Semantics2025References: 27

  • Being pragmatic about biscuits

    Open AccessMaría Biezma, Arno GoebelARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2023

  • A wishlist for future dynamic frameworks

    María BiezmaARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2023

  • Non-informative assertions

    Open AccessMaría BiezmaARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2020

    This paper focuses on inquisitive information-seeking utterances with non-fronted wh -words and declarative word order, which I dub wh -declaratives (WhDec), e.g., the party is where? Though they have not received much attention in the literature, they present an interesting theoretical puzzle: despite looking like declaratives syntactically, they receive an inquisitive interpretation, and yet they are not always interchangeable with (canonical) …

  • Or what

    Open AccessMaría Biezma, Kyle RawlinsARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2017

    This paper develops an argument that discourse considerations are crucial in the semantics of questions by looking at the case of English “or what” questions. We argue that “what” in these questions is a discourse pronoun anaphoric with the ‘Question Under Discussion’, and show that this account explains the range of variation in how “or what” questions are interpreted in context, compared to other question types. This accounts for the fact that …

  • Alternative Questions

    Open AccessMaría Biezma, María Victoria Biezma Moraleda et al.ARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2015Cited by: 3References: 28

    This paper surveys the current state of art in research on alternative questions. Alternative questions stand at the confluence of three major topics in semantics, pragmatics, and syntax: questions, disjunction, and intonational meaning/focus. We focus on these components of alternative questions as themes in our survey, arguing for an emerging consensus that (i) disjunction in alternative questions must be modeled in an alternative-sensitive way…

  • Multiple Focus Strategies inPro-Drop Languages

    Open AccessMaría Biezma, María Victoria Biezma MoraledaARTICLESyntax2014References: 38

    In this paper I use the case of Spanish to argue that language regularities may give rise to multiple strategies for marking focus. In addition to the well-known observation that focus can be marked by word order and intonation, I present experimental results regarding ellipsis that show that overt full DPs in subject position in Spanish are marked as focused. This strategy is linked to a language regularity, namely the availability of silent (pr…