Publications
Journal Papers and Book Chapters
Mayol, Laia (accepted) ” An account of the variation in the rates of overt subject pronouns in Romance”. In Spanish in Context. [Pre-print]
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2011) “A question of misfortune: Parenthetical adverbs in questions in French”. In Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Nice 2009, pp. 223–238. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Pre-print]
Mayol, Laia (2010) “Contrastive Pronouns in Null Subject Romance Languages”. In Lingua, 120(10), 2497-2514. [Pre-print]
Mayol, Laia and Robin Clark (2010) “Pronouns in Catalan: Games of Partial Information and the Use of Linguistic Resources”. In Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 781-799. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia (2008) “Catalan ‘Déu n’hi do’ and Conventional Implicatures in Exclamatives”. In Xavier Villalba (ed.), Catalan Journal of Linguistics 7:135-156. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia (2007) “Right-dislocation in Catalan: its discourse function and counterparts in English” In Languages in Contrast 7(2):203-220. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia (2007) “ ‘Ho sabíeu, això?’ La dislocació a la dreta en català” In Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 20: 221-238. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia, Gemma Boleda and Toni Badia (2005) “Automatic learning of syntactic verb classes with basic resources”. In Language Ressources and Evaluation 39(4):295-312 [PDF]
Conference Proceedings and Talks
Villalba, Xavier and Laia, Mayol (to be presented). Continuing right-dislocation and polarity in Catalan. Talk at the workshop Detachment constructions [dislocations] and typology in languages of Europe and beyond. Societas Linguistica Europaea. Stockholm University. August 29th-September 1st.
Castroviejo, Elena and Laia Mayol (in press) “Conclusion, Consequence and Solutionhood: the semantics of three Catalan connectives”. Proceedings of the 16th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference. September 6-8, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (in press) “Evaluative adverbs in questions: a comparison between French and Catalan”. Proceedings of the 46th Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago. [paper]
Castroviejo, Elena and Laia Mayol (2011) “The connective doncs in dialogue and the QUD”. Poster at the Constraints in Discourse 2011. September 14-16.
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2011) “Projective meaning and implicature cancellation”. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Projective Meaning, August 8-12, 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia [paper]
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2011) “Constraints on cancellation: the QUD and levels of meaning”. Poster at the Generative Grammar Colloquium, Universidad de Sevilla & Universidad Pablo de Olavide, April 7-9.
Mayol, Laia (2010) “Redifining salience and the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis: a study of Catalan pronouns”. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 15. [paper]
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2009) “A question of misfortune”. Talk at Going Romance, Radboud University Nijmegen and Université de Nice, December 3-5. [slides]
Castroviejo, Elena and Laia Mayol (2009) “Bundled meanings: extremely in hw-clauses”. Talk at the Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Université Paris Diderot, April 9. [slides] [abstract]
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2009) “Asserted and implicated meanings in Catalan ‘Déu n’hi do’”. In Riester, A., Solstad, T. (Eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung , 13. [paper] [slides]
Mayol, Laia (2008) “Catalan ‘Déu n’hi do’ and Levels of Meaning in Exclamatives”. Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, 375-283. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [paper]
Mayol, Laia (2007) “Acquisition of Irregular Patterns in Spanish Verbal Morphology” In Proceedings of the Twelfth Esslli Student Session 6-17 August, Dublin, Ireland, ESSLLI 2007 [paper] [poster]
Mayol, Laia (2006) “On pronouns in Catalan and game theory” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ambiguity in Anaphora, pp. 73-82, 7-11 August, Málaga, Spain, ESSLLI 2006.
Mayol, Laia (2006) “The discourse function of right-dislocation in Catalan” In Proceedings of the Sprik Conference 2006: Explicit and Implicit Information in Text. Information Structure across Languages, 35-40, 8-10 June, Oslo, Norway. [paper]
Mayol, Laia, Gemma Boleda and Toni Badia (2005) “Automatic learning of syntactic verb classes” In Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, pp. 92-97, Feb 28th-March 1st, Saarbrücken, Germany. [paper]
Mayol, Laia and Núria Bartomeu (2003). “Tractament de l’ambigüitat determinant-pronom-adverbi-adjectiu dels quantificadors en un sistema de desambiguació morfològica automàtica”. Working Paper 02/03, CLIC-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.
Newspaper articles
Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo (2009). “Déu n’hi do quina expressió!”. Suplement de Cultura del diari Avui, January 10, page 8. [PDF]
Edited Volumes
Scheffler, Tatjana, Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eilam and Laia Mayol (eds.) (2007) Proceedings of the 30th Colloquium. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 13.1, Philadelphia, PA.
Manuscripts
Mayol, Laia (2009) “Pronouns in Catalan: information, discourse and strategy” Ph.D. Dissertation. Advised by Robin Clark. University of Pennsylvania. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia (2004) “Aprenentatge automàtic de classes sintàctiques” Master Thesis. Advised by Toni Badia. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. [PDF]
Mayol, Laia (2002) ” ‘Ho sabíeu, això? La dislocació a la dreta en català i anglès”. Senior Thesis. Advised by Enric Vallduví. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. [PDF]
