Dr. Elizabeth Gielau
Dr. Elizabeth Gielau
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
PhD May, 2015 University of Iowa, Hispanic Linguistics
M.A. 2010 University of Iowa, Hispanic Linguistics
B.A. 2008 St. Ambrose University, Magna-Cum Laude Spanish
Research
Major Fields: Romance Linguistics and Language Acquisition
Areas of Specialization: Syntactic Theory, L1/L2 Acquisition
Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Language Change and Contact, Theoretical Epistemology
Publications
Gielau, Elizabeth. Mood Distribution and the CP Domain of Subjunctive Clauses in Spanish. Doctoral Dissertation.
Forthcoming
Gielau, Elizabeth. The Dual Status of Negation in Clause-Selecting Contexts. To appear in Selected Proceedings of the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
Conference and poster presentations
Refereed, national/international
Gielau, Elizabeth. 2014. The Mistaken Identity of Negated Epistemics. 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2014), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 13 November.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2013. The Subjunctive Mood in Emotive and Epistemic Contexts as lack of Syntactic Sentience. 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2013), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 18 October.
Non-refereed, colloquia
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2014. A Syntax for Sentience: Explaining Subject Obviation in Subjunctive Clauses. The World Languages Graduate Organization Annual Conference: Exploring Edges, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 5 April.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2013. The Subjunctive Disjoint Reference Effect and the Left Periphery. Romance Linguistics Colloquium, University of Iowa, 16 November.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2012. Recomplementation: An Operator Account. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 4 October.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2011. Some vs. Any: Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics in L2 Acquisition. En Obra/Under Construction: Approaches to the languages, literatures and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 4 February.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2011. On the Second Language Acquisition of Internal Interface Properties. SLA Graduate Linguistics Symposium: Methodologies in SLA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 29 April.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2011. The Interfaces: Where L2 Linguistic Competence Meets Deixis. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 13 November.
Rathmann, Elizabeth. 2010. The External Interfaces: An Inevitable Locus for Fossilization in L2 Acquisition? Foreign Language Acquisition and Research Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 3 December.
Fellowships and awards
2014 $20,000 Ballard Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa
2013 $400 University of Iowa International Travel Grant
2013 $4,000 Ruth Davis Fellowship Award
2012 Outstanding TA Award department nominee
2011 $4,000 Strategic Initiative Funds (SIF)
Memberships
2014 – 2015 World Languages Graduate Organization
President
2013 – 2014 World Languages Graduate Organization
Conference Chair
2009–2011 Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Organization (SPGO),
University of Iowa
2009 Mind-Context Divide Conference, Organizing Committee,
University of Iowa
Language background
English - Native speaker
Spanish - Near-native proficiency
Portuguese - Intermediate proficiency
Italian - Beginning proficiency
German - Beginning proficiency
