M. Teresa Espinal

M. Teresa Espinal is a linguist and professor in the Department of English at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, in particular on areas including negation, prosody, and on various features of the Romance languages.

Biography
Espinal received a bachelor's degree in Hispanic philology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1978, a master's degree in linguistics from the University of London in 1981, and a PhD in linguistics from UAB in 1985.

Espinal is a professor of linguistics in the UAB Department of Catalan Philology, and has also been a member of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, and the Center for Theoretical Linguistics.

Awards
In 2020, Espinal was awarded the Narcís Monturiol medal by the Catalan government in recognition of distinguished contributions to science and technology.

In 2023, Espinal was elected to the Academia Europaea.