Draft:Maribel Romero

Maribel Romero (full name: María Isabel Romero Sangüesa) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Her research addresses semantics, pragmatics and the syntax-semantics interface. Romero earned her PhD in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Focus and Reconstruction Effects in Wh-Phrases." In 2022, she was elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Biography
Romero earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Focus and Reconstruction Effects in Wh-Phrases." She has worked at the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to her current position at the University of Konstanz.

Honors and awards
In 2022 Romero was elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea. This award is given to individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence". Membership is by invitation only by existing MAE only and judged during a peer review selection process. Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters MAE.

Research
Romero's research falls under the umbrella of formal semantics and pragmatics. Particular phenomena she has worked on include questions, quantifiers, and counterfactuality. In recent years she has adopted experimental methodologies, and is a member of the major research network XPrag in experimental pragmatics. She has led funded projects on questions, conditionals, and clausal embedding.

Selected publications

 * Joshi, Aravind K., Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero. 2008. Flexible Composition In Ltag: Quantifier Scope and Inverse Linking. In Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning, vol. 3, 233–256. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402059568.
 * Joshi, Aravind K., Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero. 2008. Flexible Composition In Ltag: Quantifier Scope and Inverse Linking. In Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning, vol. 3, 233–256. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402059568.
 * Joshi, Aravind K., Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero. 2008. Flexible Composition In Ltag: Quantifier Scope and Inverse Linking. In Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning, vol. 3, 233–256. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402059568.
 * Joshi, Aravind K., Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero. 2008. Flexible Composition In Ltag: Quantifier Scope and Inverse Linking. In Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning, vol. 3, 233–256. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402059568.