Conferences & papers

Publications

Psycholinguistics

• Vela-Plo, Laura, Marta De Pedis, & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2025). Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish. Languages 10, no. 7: 175. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10070175  

• Vela-Plo, Laura & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2025). Theoretical and empirical basis for Gender-Fair Language use: The case of Spanish. In Schmitz, D., Stein, S.D. & Schneider, V. Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness, p. 173-197. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter/Düsseldorf University Press. DOI: 10.1515/9783111388694-011. ISBN/ISSN/DBID: 9783111388694. Book chapter.

• Vela-Plo, Laura, Erdocia, Kepa & Laka, Itziar. (2022). Agents strongly preferred: Ambiguity processing in Basque, in Papers on Basque Linguistics in Honour of Jon Andoni Franco Elorza. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. 

Syntax-Semantics

• Vela-Plo, Laura.  (to appear). Más naturales de lo que esperábamos - Relativas de grado en codas comparativas. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (CLAC).

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2025). AGREEment and ellipsis, The Linguistic Review, vol. 42, no. 3, Current issues in Generative Grammar, pp. 279-293.  https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2025-2009 

• Elordieta, Arantzazu & Vela-Plo, Laura. (2025). (Eds). The Linguistic Review, vol. 42, no. 3 - Special Issue: Case, agreement and ellipsis. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/tlir/42/3/html 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2025). More than a subordinate clause: coordination or subordination in comparatives, clausal or phrasal standards. Generative Perspectives on Degrees: The Semantics and Morphosyntax of Scalarity, edited by Anastasiia Vyshnevska and Edoardo Cavirani, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 149-195. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111547688-007 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2023). Phrasal Subcomparatives: A comparative coordination analysis based on evidence from Basque, Spanish and English. Linguistics, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 107-157.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0001 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2022). Araua eta gaur egungo erabilera: Espero genuen(a) baino aldakortasun handiagoa egitura konparatiboetan. [Norma y uso actual: Existe una mayor variedad de la que esperábamos en las estructuras comparativas]. In En Krajewska, Dorota, Sergio Monforte & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), Euskal Filologiaren adarrak. Leioa: UPV/EHU. ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-1319-457-8 . Website

• Alazne Arriortua, Sergio Monforte, Aitor Lizardi Ituarte & Laura Vela-Plo (ed.) (2022). Kimu berriak euskal hizkuntzalaritzan. Bilbo: Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea UEU. ISBN: 978-84-8438-833-3. Website

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2022). Análisis y clasificación de las estructuras comparativas de desigualdad en español. Revista Española de Lingüística RSEL 52/1, pp. 135-166.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.52.1.4 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2020). Euskarazko perpausik gabeko azpikonparazioak. In Santazilia, Ekaitz, Krajewska, Dorota, Zuloaga, Eneko & Ariztimuño, Borja (eds.), 2020. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 50 urte. Ekarpen berriak euskararen ikerketari / Nuevas aportaciones al estudio de la lengua vasca, pp. 579-594.  Iruña: Nafarroako Gobernua. ISBN: 978-84-235-3561-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35462/fontes50urte.37 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018). A little more on comparison: variation and common cognitive and linguistic properties. In Joseba A. Lakarra & Blanca Urgell (Eds.). Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca «Julio de Urquijo» Studia Philologica et Diachronica in honorem Joakin Gorrotxategi, Vol. 52 (1/2), pp. 817-851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1387/asju.20232 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018). Smaller than small comparatives: the case of Basque. Borealis–An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 7 / 1. pp. 45-69. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.7.1.4398 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018). Standards of comparison and the case of Spanish “que - de alternation”. In Bellamy, K., Ionova, A. & G. Saad. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, pp. 229-249. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1167802 

Outreach

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2013). Hello, Luv! You All Right? On language and culture contact in Erasmus experiences. University of Deusto magazine (Spain), 117 (P. 50). ISSN: 1886-2071.

PhD dissertation

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2020). Drawing comparisons: A syntactic and semantic approach to Basque, Spanish and English comparative structures. Vitoria-Gasteiz: University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU dissertation. 

• Award: Best 2020 Linguistics Thesis awarded by Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL). 

Talks and conferences

2025

• Vela-Plo, Laura, Marta De Pedis & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2025, May 26). Gender Perception with Masculine Generics and Gender Fair Language Strategies in Spanish. XVII International Symposioum of Psycholinguistics (U. de Barcelona, Barcelona). (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura, Marta De Pedis & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2025, May 15). El lenguaje como herramienta para el cambio social: algunas consecuencias del uso del lenguaje inclusivo. Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao. (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura, Marta De Pedis & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2025, January 23). Percepción de las fórmulas para codificar el género en español. LII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística (U. de Salamanca). (Conference with abstract selection)

2023

• Vela-Plo, Laura & Marina Ortega-Andrés. (2023, July). Against and in favour of Gender Fair Language: What can we learn from empirical research? LILG - Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (U. Düsseldorf, Germany). (Conference with abstract selection)

• Marina Ortega-Andrés & Laura Vela-Plo. (2023, May 13) El lenguaje como herramienta de cambio: desenmarañando el debate en torno al lenguaje inclusivo. Filósofas en Streaming, online.

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2023, June). Comparatives: coordinate and dependent, with either clausal or directly phrasal standards. Workshop on Degree. University of Leuven.  (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2023, February). ¿Por qué es obligatorio el Borrado Comparativo? ¿Encontramos este tipo de elipsis en otras estructuras lingüísticas? Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Comparative Syntax (UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz).

2022

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2022, July). Rethinking the variation in comparatives: A syntactic and semantic approach to Spanish and English inequality comparatives. International Congress on Syntax "CISyntax2022" (Porto, Portugal). (Conference with abstract selection)

• (Course) Roger Martin Summer School. Title: Interfaz sintaxis-semántica: buceando en un mar de significados, lenguajes y experimentos. Barcelona, 20-23 June 2022. (Course in a Summer School)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2022, April). Las comparaciones no son tan odiosas: Cuatro debates y cuatro respuestas en torno a la sintaxis y la semántica de las estructuras comparativas de desigualdad. Sociedad Española de Lingüística (Madrid). (Plenary talk)

2021

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2021, December). Hidden relatives in comparative structures. UD Workshop in Basque Linguistics.Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao). (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2021, September). Nueva clasificación de las estructuras comparativas de desigualdad en español. II Encuentro de Lingüística Formal en México. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, 08/09/2021.  (Conference with abstract selection)

2020 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2020, January). Basque '-en(a) baino' comparatives. HiTT Linguistic Seminar. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, 22/01/2020.  (Regular seminars)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2020, January). “More-than” Wars: The Awakening of the Split Approach to Comparatives. Talk presented at the 28th ConSOLE conference, Barcelona. 28/01/2020 - 31/01/2020. (Conference with abstract selection)

2019

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2019, June). Syntactic and semantic coordination in subcomparative constructions. Talk presented at the SigGram Excellence Network Meeting (FFI2016-81750-REDT) at Alcalá de Henares. 06/06/2019. (Invited talk).

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2019, May). Subcomparatives: Across-the-board binding of two degree variables by a single quantifier. 54th Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS54), Chicago (US). 16/05/2019. Oral communication. (Conference with abstract selection) [programme]

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2019, March). Konparaketaren bidez ikasten: euskara. gaztelera eta ingelesezko konparazio egiturak birpensatzen [Learning by means of comparison: rethinking Basque, Spanish and English comparative structures].  GaiGram - EHren II. Jardunaldiak (Gaitasunetara bideraturiko Gramatika) "Berrikuntza lndarrean Jartzen". (Invited talk at the workshop) [programme]

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2019, March). Konparazio egituren koordinazio analisi sintaktiko-semantikoa. Fontes Linguae Vasconum: New methods and trends in (Basque) linguistics. Pamplona (Spain). 06/03/2019 - 07/03/2019. Oral communication. (Conference with abstract selection) [book of abstracts p. 21-22]

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2019, January). Coordinación y subordinación en las estructuras comparativas en español e inglés. ["Coordination and subordination in Spanish and English comparative structures"]. XLVIII Simposio de la SEL- Sociedad Española de Lingüística. CSIC Madrid. 29/01/2019 - 01/02/2019. Oral communication. (Conference with abstract selection) [book of abstracts p. 144]

2018

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018, December). The syntax and semantics of subcomparatives. RALFe 2018 - Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle, Paris (France). 06/12/2018 - 07/12/2018. Oral communication. (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018, November). Delimiting coordination and subordination in comparatives: Evidence from Spanish. CLT Centre de Linguistica Teorica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). Barcelona, 30/11/2018. (Invited talk)

• Erdocia, Kepa; Romo, Ane; Martinez de la Hidalga, Gillen; Vela-Plo, Laura & Laka, Itziar. (2018, September). Delayed disambiguation when L2 differs from L1 in argument alignment and word order. CoNSALL: Cognitive Neuroscience of Second and Artificial Language Learning conference, Bangor (Wales). 21-23/09/2018. Oral Presentation: Kepa Erdocia. (Conference with abstract selection) 

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018, June). Comparison within the nominal domain. Poster presentation at the 28th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Tarragona. (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018, April). Comparative coordination in the nominal domain. Poster presented at the 41st Generative Linguistics in the Old World conference (GLOW41), Budapest, Hungary. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1219195  (Conference with abstract selection) [abstract] [poster]

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2018, February). At the interface between comparison and coordination. Poster presented at the 26th ConSOLE conference, London, United Kingdom. (Conference with abstract selection) [abstract]

2017

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, November). Stranger things happen. HiTT Linguistic Seminars, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, 08/11/2017. (Regular seminars)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, October). Comparative coordination in Basque nominal and adjectival comparison. Talk presented at the SigGram Excellence Network Meeting (FFI20L6-81750-REDTJ) at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. 06/10/2017. (Invited talk).

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, April). Non-standard cases of standards of comparison. Talk presented at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 27/04/2017. (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, April). Comparison and coordination. Talk presented at the University of Connecticut. 25/04/2017. (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, February). Setting up standards of comparison. Talk presented at the Syntax-Semantics Lab [S-Lab] at the University of Maryland. 21/02/2017. (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2017, January). Standards of comparison and the case of Spanish que - de alternation. Poster presented at the 25th ConSOLE conference, Leipzig, Germany. (Conference with abstract selection) [handout]

2016

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2016, June). Formalising standards of comparison. Paper presented at the 13th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology [13thWoSSP], Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona. (Conference with abstract selection) [abstract]

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2016, May). Análisis sintáctico de las estructuras comparativas de desigualdad en español y euskara. Paper presented at the XII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General [CILG2016], Alcalá de Henares. (Conference with abstract selection)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2016, April). Nature and complexity of standards of comparison. Significado y Gramática [SigGram 2016], Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 08/04/2016. (Invited talk)

2015

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2015, December). On making comparisons: Japanese, Spanish and Basque. 1st International Workshop on Basque-Japanese and Neighbouring Languages, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, 16/12/2015. (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2015, December). Comparison in Spanish, Basque and English: similarities, differences and unresolved questions. HiTT Linguistic Seminar, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, 02/12/2015. (Regular seminars)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2015, November). Typological and morphosyntactic approach to inequality comparatives. A look at Basque. Invited talk at IKER Colloquia, Centre IKER - UMR 5478, Bayonne, France, 10/11/2015. (Invited talk)

• Vela-Plo, Laura. (2015, June). A little more on comparison. 12th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology [WoSSP2015]. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, 26/06/2015. (Invited talk)