Laia Mayol

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on linguistics, pragmatics and semantics and English grammar.  Before that, I held postdoctoral research positions at UPF (through the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ program) and the UAB, and I obtained my doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. I was a visiting scholar for two short research stays at the University of California San Diego in 2015 and 2016.

I am interested in pragmatics and semantics (both theoretical and experimental). In particular, my research is centered on the following topics: information and discourse structure, non-truth conditional meaning and anaphora production and interpretation. I’m currently working on the project EXPEDIS.  I’m a member of the officially-recognized Formal Linguistics Group (GLIF) and of UPF's larger Linguistics Research Unit (UR-LING).

Some recent work:

Silvio Cruschina & Laia Mayol. 2024. "The distribution of focus and the mapping between syntax and information structure". Journal of Linguistics.

Liao, Xixian & Boleda, Gemma & Rohde, Hannah & Mayol, Laia. 2024. Comparing models of pronoun production and interpretation via observational and experimental evidence. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1), 1–46.

Elena Castroviejo & Laia Mayol. 2024. "Premise conditionals are echoic thematic conditionals". Journal of Pragmatics 225.