Elena Castroviejo
Biographic Data
| ID | 796965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Castroviejo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Castroviejo |
| SIGNATURE | CASTROVIEJO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0371-1214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan
This paper investigates the developmental trajectory for children’s comprehension of evidential marking of directly perceived evidence through intonation in Majorcan Catalan (MC). Additionally, we aimed to explore children’s general source monitoring abilities and their capacity to make inferences based on directly perceived information. Given that evidential comprehension tends to develop relatively late when marked morphosyntactically, we hypot…
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age
Two major trends on children’s skills to comprehend metaphors have governed the literature on the subject: the literal stage hypothesis vs. the early birds hypothesis (Falkum, 2022). We aim to contribute to this debate by testing children’s capability to comprehend novel metaphors (‘X is a Y’) in Spanish with a child-friendly, picture selection task, while also tracking their gaze. Further, given recent findings on the development of metonymy com…
Exclamations as emotive assertions: More questions (than answers)
This commentary offers a personal assessment of Trotzke and Giannakidou’s proposal and explores two key aspects: the status of the descriptive meaning of emotive assertions and the emotions conveyed by exclamations. By revisiting the data points and claims presented in the original paper, it raises questions that may contribute to a deeper understanding of exclamations
Development of nonliteral interpretations in typically developing Spanish speaking children: Light verb constructions and figurative expressions
In this paper we present a study about the typical development of the comprehension of expressions that exhibit an ambiguity between a literal and a nonliteral interpretation in Spanish, and whose most frequent use is nonliteral. Such expressions include light verb constructions (LVC) such as to make the bed and expressions in a metaphor‐hyperbole‐idiom continuum (MHI) such as to sleep with angels . We ran a forced‐choice experiment where childre…
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals
This paper discusses the information structural properties of so-called premise (also factual) conditionals, conditional sentences whose antecedent repeats previously evoked content. We argue that, semantically, premise conditionals are hypothetical conditionals, with two pragmatic properties: their antecedent is echoic and thematic. We show that some of the differences identified in the literature between hypothetical and premise conditionals fo…
Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals
Producción Científica
More on pejorative language: Insults that go beyond their extension
Echoicity and contrast in Spanish conditionals
This paper is concerned with a conditional construction in Spanish, which we call echoic contrastive conditional , ecc for short. In ecc s, the consequent is entailed, the antecedent echoes the content of a previous assertion, and both antecedent and consequent are marked with a Contrastive Topic. Our goal is to fit these properties in a formal explanation compatible with a simple analysis of conditionals. We claim that ecc s are a subtype of bis…
On wh -exclamatives and gradability: An argument from Romance
This paper discusses a type of wh -exclamative whose wh -component and degree component do not seem to go hand in hand. These are wh -exclamatives in Catalan whose moved wh -phrase is headed by the determiner quin ‘what, which’, and whose NP contains an optional DegP headed by tan ‘so’ or més ‘more’. By taking a closer look at these wh -exclamatives, we will be able to contribute to the debate on the role of gradability and of the wh -component i…
The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: Experimental Perspectives
Boundaries, phases, and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte
This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that the study of (narrow) interfaces helps to understand conditions on the internal structure of the Language Faculty. The first part of this volume is ded…
Manner and degree: An introduction
A syntactic approach to the morpho-semantic variation of -ear
Modification at the interfaces: An introduction
How to cancel an implicature
(Non)integrated evaluative adverbs in questions: A cross-Romance study
The goal of this article is to analyze the semantic contribution of evaluative adverbs (EAs) such as unfortunately in several languages of the Romance family, namely French, Catalan, and Spanish. Following Bonami and Godard (2008), we propose to analyze EAs as items that convey projective meaning in order to explain their peculiar semantic behavior (they cannot be directly denied, do not change the truth conditions of the proposition they evaluat…
How to cancel an implicature
(Non)integrated evaluative adverbs in questions: A cross-Romance study
The goal of this article is to analyze the semantic contribution of evaluative adverbs (EAs) such as unfortunately in several languages of the Romance family, namely French, Catalan, and Spanish. Following Bonami and Godard (2008), we propose to analyze EAs as items that convey projective meaning in order to explain their peculiar semantic behavior (they cannot be directly denied, do not change the truth conditions of the proposition they evaluat…
More on pejorative language: Insults that go beyond their extension
On wh -exclamatives and gradability: An argument from Romance
This paper discusses a type of wh -exclamative whose wh -component and degree component do not seem to go hand in hand. These are wh -exclamatives in Catalan whose moved wh -phrase is headed by the determiner quin ‘what, which’, and whose NP contains an optional DegP headed by tan ‘so’ or més ‘more’. By taking a closer look at these wh -exclamatives, we will be able to contribute to the debate on the role of gradability and of the wh -component i…
Manner and degree: An introduction
Modification at the interfaces: An introduction
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals
This paper discusses the information structural properties of so-called premise (also factual) conditionals, conditional sentences whose antecedent repeats previously evoked content. We argue that, semantically, premise conditionals are hypothetical conditionals, with two pragmatic properties: their antecedent is echoic and thematic. We show that some of the differences identified in the literature between hypothetical and premise conditionals fo…
A syntactic approach to the morpho-semantic variation of -ear
How to cancel an implicature
(Non)integrated evaluative adverbs in questions: A cross-Romance study
The goal of this article is to analyze the semantic contribution of evaluative adverbs (EAs) such as unfortunately in several languages of the Romance family, namely French, Catalan, and Spanish. Following Bonami and Godard (2008), we propose to analyze EAs as items that convey projective meaning in order to explain their peculiar semantic behavior (they cannot be directly denied, do not change the truth conditions of the proposition they evaluat…
A syntactic approach to the morpho-semantic variation of -ear
Modification at the interfaces: An introduction
Manner and degree: An introduction
Boundaries, phases, and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte
This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that the study of (narrow) interfaces helps to understand conditions on the internal structure of the Language Faculty. The first part of this volume is ded…
The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: Experimental Perspectives
Echoicity and contrast in Spanish conditionals
This paper is concerned with a conditional construction in Spanish, which we call echoic contrastive conditional , ecc for short. In ecc s, the consequent is entailed, the antecedent echoes the content of a previous assertion, and both antecedent and consequent are marked with a Contrastive Topic. Our goal is to fit these properties in a formal explanation compatible with a simple analysis of conditionals. We claim that ecc s are a subtype of bis…
On wh -exclamatives and gradability: An argument from Romance
This paper discusses a type of wh -exclamative whose wh -component and degree component do not seem to go hand in hand. These are wh -exclamatives in Catalan whose moved wh -phrase is headed by the determiner quin ‘what, which’, and whose NP contains an optional DegP headed by tan ‘so’ or més ‘more’. By taking a closer look at these wh -exclamatives, we will be able to contribute to the debate on the role of gradability and of the wh -component i…
More on pejorative language: Insults that go beyond their extension
Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals
Producción Científica
Development of nonliteral interpretations in typically developing Spanish speaking children: Light verb constructions and figurative expressions
In this paper we present a study about the typical development of the comprehension of expressions that exhibit an ambiguity between a literal and a nonliteral interpretation in Spanish, and whose most frequent use is nonliteral. Such expressions include light verb constructions (LVC) such as to make the bed and expressions in a metaphor‐hyperbole‐idiom continuum (MHI) such as to sleep with angels . We ran a forced‐choice experiment where childre…
Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals
This paper discusses the information structural properties of so-called premise (also factual) conditionals, conditional sentences whose antecedent repeats previously evoked content. We argue that, semantically, premise conditionals are hypothetical conditionals, with two pragmatic properties: their antecedent is echoic and thematic. We show that some of the differences identified in the literature between hypothetical and premise conditionals fo…
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age
Two major trends on children’s skills to comprehend metaphors have governed the literature on the subject: the literal stage hypothesis vs. the early birds hypothesis (Falkum, 2022). We aim to contribute to this debate by testing children’s capability to comprehend novel metaphors (‘X is a Y’) in Spanish with a child-friendly, picture selection task, while also tracking their gaze. Further, given recent findings on the development of metonymy com…
Exclamations as emotive assertions: More questions (than answers)
This commentary offers a personal assessment of Trotzke and Giannakidou’s proposal and explores two key aspects: the status of the descriptive meaning of emotive assertions and the emotions conveyed by exclamations. By revisiting the data points and claims presented in the original paper, it raises questions that may contribute to a deeper understanding of exclamations
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan
This paper investigates the developmental trajectory for children’s comprehension of evidential marking of directly perceived evidence through intonation in Majorcan Catalan (MC). Additionally, we aimed to explore children’s general source monitoring abilities and their capacity to make inferences based on directly perceived information. Given that evidential comprehension tends to develop relatively late when marked morphosyntactically, we hypot…
Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)