Juan Romeu

Presentation

Predoctoral researcher JAE-PREDOC
e-mail: juan.romeu@cchs.csic.es
Office: 1D21
Phone: + 34 916022828 

Interests:

  • Theoretical linguistics
  • Spanish grammar and formal grammar of natural languages.
  • Lexical and syntactic interface.

Working areas:

  • High degree predication.
  • Prepositions and motion.
  • Events.

Brief CV:

  • Academic formation:
    2002-2007
    Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    - 2007-2008
    Máster en Investigación en Lengua en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Previous job:
    2008-2009
    Colaborador en la Nueva Gramática de la Real Academia de la Lengua
  • Current position:
    2009-
    Becario JAE-Predoc (CCHS-CSIC)

 

Publications

Master Thesis:

- Las construcciones con de-un: María es de un tonto que no veas. UCM. 2009
Papers

2013. The nanosyntax of Path. In http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001798.

2013. "A vs. en in Spanish Locatives". In N. Lavidas (ed.) Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20th ISTAL, 459-476.

Conferences

  • 2013. "The path to no Path". Selected talk. Variation in P. Venice, Universidad Ca' Foscari. October, 10th-11th. Handout.
  • 2013. With María del Mar Bassa Vanrell. "Microvariation of dins in Catalan". Selected talk. The syntactic variation of Catalan and Spanish dialects. Barcelona, UAB, June 26th-28th. Handout.
  • 2013. With María del Mar Bassa Vanrell. "The meaning of DOM in Spanish". Selected talk. CASTL Spring Conference on Differential Object Marking. Tromsø, University of Tromsø. May 23th-24th. Handout
  • 2013. "The nanosyntax of Path". Selected talk. 23 Coloquio de Gramática Generativa. Madrid, UCM. May 9th-11th. Handout
  • 2013. Bajo, debajo y abajo: ¿Distinta estructura para un mismo significado? XLII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, CCHS-CSIC. January 22th-25th. Handout
  • 2012. The subatomic structure of (motion) events. Encuentro HIM de Jóvenes Investigadores. Girona. December 21st. Handout
  • 2012. "Cartography and Polysemy of spatial Ps. The case of in in English". Selected talk. The Meaning of P 2012. Bochum. November 22nd-25th. Handout
  • 2012. "Verbal Prefixes are not Ps". Selected talk. Prefix Verbs: The Impact of Preposition-like Elements on the Syntax and Semantics of Verbs. P-Workshop. Stuttgart. July 13th-14th. Handout
  • 2012. "Places and Displaces". Invited talk. Spatial prepositions: From language to cognition. Utrecht, UiL-OTS. June 12th 2012. Handout
  • 2012. "A cartographic approach to spatial elements: The Lexicalization of Location in Spanish". Selected talk. 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar. Barcelona, UAB. March 21st 2012. Handout
  • 2011. "Cartografía de la estructura sintáctico-semántica de los elementos espaciales". Invited talk. Madrid, UCM. December 12th 2011.
  • 2011. "A fine-grained structure for spatial elements". Invited talk. Syntax Supper. Nueva York, CUNY. November 15th 2011. Handout
  • 2011. "Ps and Vs in the lexicalization of spatial features". Selected talk. Workshop on Verbal Elasticity. Barcelona, UAB. October 3rd-5th 2011.
  • 2011. "A cartographic approach to spatial Ps in Spanish". Invited talk. Tromsø, University of Tromsø. June 8th 2011.
  • 2011. "A cartographic approach to directional Ps in Spanish". Invited talk. Romance Lab. Leiden, University of Leiden. April 21st 2011.
  • 2011. "A vs. en in Spanish locatives". Selected talk. 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL 20). Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. April 1st-3rd 2011.
  • 2011. "Alternancia a/en en las construcciones locativas en español". Selected talk. XXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. Salamaca, Universidad de Salamanca. March 9th-11th 2011.
  • 2011. "Cartografía de las preposiciones direccionales en español". Selected talk. XL Simposio Internacional y III Congreso de la SEL. Madrid, CCHS-CSIC, February 7th-10th february 2011.
  • 2010. “Motion verbs in Spanish”. Invited talk in Round Table “An introduction to novel ways of anlyzing verbs of motion applied to Spanish and Sign Language”. 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of the AHLiST (Association of History, Literature, Science and technology). Madrid, UCM, June 23rd-25th 2010.  [With V. Demonte and  I. Pérez Jiménez ] Powerpoint

 

If anyone is interested in the handout of any of the talks, please send me an e-mail to:

juan.romeu@cchs.csic.es