Books
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2019). Towards a Theory of Denominal Verbs: A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning. (Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory). Brill Publishing House
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Edited volumes
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault & Tom Roeper. Recursion Across Languages: The Intricacies of Babel. Accepted with minor revisions at Springer, in the series Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics.
Book contributions
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. (Accepted). The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction and adjectives in child Romanian. Chapter 9 in Recursion Across Languages. The Intricacies of Babel. Springer. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2024). Coloring the possible and the certain in child Romanian. In Anca Sevcenco, Irina Stoica, Ioana Stoicescu, Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, Alina Tigău, and Veronica Tomescu (Eds.), Exploring Linguistic Landscapes. A Festschrift for Larisa Avram and Andrei Avram, pp. 273-285. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. (2024). Chapter 2. Children do not distinguish the green leaves and the yellow leaves from the green and yellow leaves. In Merle Weicker, Rabea Lemmer, Andrea Listanti and Angela Grimm (eds.), Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition: A Generative Perspective, 33-64. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0853-4.
Bleotu Adina Camelia. (2023). Chapter 10. On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Existential Quantifiers in Romanian. In Mihaela Tǎnase-Dogaru, Alina Tigǎu, & Ioana Stoicescu (eds.), Crosslinguistic Approaches to Language Analysis, 262-279. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7001-6.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Rodica Ivan. (2022). Voice Alternation in SE figure reflexives in Romanian: Evidence from a semi-artificial paradigm. In G. Alboiu, D. Isac, A. Nicolae, M. Tǎnase-Dogaru & A. Tigǎu, A Life in Linguistics: A Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th Birthday, pp. 79-101. Bucureşti: Editura Universitǎţii Bucureşti.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2022). Chapter 3. Remarks on Quantifier Spreading in Child Romanian. In Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.), New Insights into Old Issues in L1 Acquisition and L2 and L3 Learning, 42-57. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2022). Chapter 6. The Properties of the ‘(a) lua și X’ (‘take and X’) Construction in Romanian: Evidence in Favor of a More Fine-grained Distinction Among Pseudocoordinative Structures. In Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, & Daniel Ross (eds.), Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, 149-166. John Benjamins. http://doi.org/10.1075/la.274.06ble.
Bleotu Adina Camelia. (2021). 5-Year-Olds Are Precise with Cardinals: Experimental Evidence from Romanian Child Language. Chapter 15. In Mihaela Tǎnase-Dogaru, Alina Tigǎu, & Mihaela Zamfirescu (eds.), (De)Constructing Language Structure and Meaning. Studies on Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition, and Phonology, 303-322. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7001-6.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2021). Chapter 13. Deriving scalar implicatures in Romanian 7-and 9-year-olds. In Anca Sevcenco, Larisa Avram and Veronica Tomescu (eds), L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, 332-353. John Benjamins Publishing Company. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.65.13ble.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2016). Colour verbs in English and Romanian. In João Paulo Silvestre, Esperança Cardeira & Alina Villalva (eds.), Colour and Colour Naming: Crosslinguistic Approaches, 145-160. Centro da Linguistica da Lisboa, Universidade de Aveiro
Journal publications
Key journal publications
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, Tom Roeper, and Usha Lakshmanan. (2025). The role of Universal Grammar and crosslinguistic influence in the interpretation of recursive set-subset adjectives in adult Romanian L1 English-L2 bilinguals. To appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Rodica-Rudmila Ivan, and Andreea Nicolae. (2025). Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian. To appear in Journal of Semantics. link
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. (2025). Does hearing "and" help children understand "or"? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian. To appear in Journal of Child Language. link
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. Reasoning with epistemic adverbs in child Romanian: Insights from the Shadow Play Paradigm. (2025). Language Acquisition. 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2025.2470770
López Otero, Julio César and Adina Camelia Bleotu. (2025). Divergence and avoidance in the production of DOM in Romanian and Spanish among Romanian-speaking L2 speakers of Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.16581
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Slăvuţeanu, Anton Benz, and Andreea Nicolae. (2024). Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(1). doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.384
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Brian Dillon. (2024). Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations. Journal of Memory and Language 134. doi:10.31234/osf.io/vzu4m
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2023). Insights from child language into the meaning of denominal verbs: Cherrying means eating cherries, not becoming like a cherry. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8653
Additional journal publications
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2024). Agreement with Collective Nouns in English and Romanian: A Silent Noun and Distributional Approach. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LXIX, 3–4, p. 291–306, part of the special issue “Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Partitivity and Related Phenomena”. DOI: 10.59277/RRL.2024.3-4.16
Trușcă, Daniela-Gabriela and Adina Camelia Bleotu. (2024). Adjective orders in English and Romanian: An experimental investigation. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. XXVI 1, 43–68. Special issue: Insights into nominal and event modification. DOI: 10.31178/BWPL.26.1
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Amalia Luciu. (2024). How are size, age, shape, and color adjectives ordered in English and Romanian? An experimental investigation. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. XXVI 1, 69–87. Special issue: Insights into nominal and event modification. DOI: 10.31178/BWPL.26.1
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2022). Experimental insights into denominals and creativity in adult Romanian. Studii de lingvistică. Vol. 12 (2), pp. 17-40.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2019). How Are Number and Person Ordered in the Verbal and Pronominal Domain in Romanian? Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, LXIV (2).
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2018). The Acquisition of Root NN Compounds in Romanian. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics No. 2.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2017). Why GIVE does not incorporate in denominal verbs. In Alexandra Cornilescu, Alina Tigau, Anca Dinu (eds), Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, LXII, No./Issue 2, Investigating Romanian Datives. Available online: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003178.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2016). A Spanning Account of Denominal Verbs in English and Romanian. In Guglielmo Cinque, Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, vol. 38, 13-23, Venezia. Available online: http://lear.unive.it/jspui/handle/11707/5689
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2014). Location, Locatum verbs and the Locative Alternation in Romanian and English, Wiener Linguistische Gazette, Special Issue (2014): 1, 178-197. Available online: https://wlg.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_wlg/78A2014/Bleotu.pdf. ISSN: 1016- 2844
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2012). N1-of-N1 Constructions? Is There Such Thing? In Laura Brugè (ed.), University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 21, 7-39. Available online: http://lear.unive.it/jspui/handle/11707/580.
Articles currently under review
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. (2024). On the sources of strong interpretations in children: Insights from plain and modal disjunctive statements. (currently under review)
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. (2024). Agreement with singular disjuncts in child and adult Romanian. (currently under review)
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, and Andreea Nicolae. (2024). Scope, not strengthening, drives strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language: A comparison with positive disjunctives. (currently under review)
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Slăvuțeanu, and Anton Benz. (2024). From interdiction to lack of necessity in child language: The role of lexical and prosodic contrast and situational context in overriding strong meaning preferences for negated modals. (currently under review)
Refereed Conference Proceedings
On quantifiers, modals and negation in child and adult language
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, and Anton Benz. 2024. “The Role of Scalar Diversity and Question under Discussion in Deriving Implicatures With Embedded Scales”. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 169-89. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v28.1115.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz and Gabriela Slǎvuțeanu. 2023. The role of intonation & context in lack of necessity meanings in child Romanian. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, 541-562.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Roxana Pǎtrunjel. 2022. “You must worry! The interpretation of mustn’t varies with context and verb complement”. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 2, 24-35.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Gabriela Brozbǎ. 2022. Interdiction as a primary reading of negated deontic necessity in child Romanian. In Linguistic Evidence Booklet 2022. 6-8 October 2022, Paris. https://le-2022.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/book_le_2022_en.pdf
Bîlea, Simona and Adina Camelia Bleotu. 2022. Romanian children are not able not to derive actuality entailments. In Antonis Botinis (ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 17-19 October 2022, pp. 25-29. http://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. 2022. Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a Shadow Play Paradigm, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, 149–164. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.993
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. 2021. Shadow-playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic adverbs are a kind of magic!, Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Vol.1 (ed. by Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, Anna Papafragou), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.1.4866.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. 2021. Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs, Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Vol.1 (ed. by Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, Anna Papafragou), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.1.4863.
On the acquisition of disjunction
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. (2025). Coloring disjunction in child Romanian. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3, 65-74. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5822.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. (2025). A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3, 53-64. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5824.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. (2024). More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 36-44. preprint
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu. (2024). Does relevance without explicit alternatives boost exclusivity implicatures of disjunction? To appear in Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. preprint
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, Rodica Ivan, and Andreea Cristina Nicolae. (2024). On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie…fie in child Romanian. In Geraldine Baumann, Daniel Gutzmann, Jonas Koopman, Kristina Liefke, Agata Renans, and Tatjana Scheffler, eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 190-199. Bochum: Ruhr-University Bochum. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v28.1116
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa, and Lyn Tieu. (2024). On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunction in child Romanian. In Hayat Abdullah Ali Al Thagafi and Jupitara Raya, eds., Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 87-100. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. link
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu. (2023). Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. link
On the acquisition of recursion
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. (2024). The Bear Wants a Small Green Apple and a Big One: Insights into Anaphoric Reconstruction in Child Romanian. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9 (1): 5734. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5734.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. (2023). Long short leaves are ‘leaves that are short that are long’. The Recursive Set-Subset Principle orders both adjectives and relative clauses. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 13-29
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. (2023). “The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Principle Orders Adjectives and Relative Clauses in Visual Context”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 8 (1): 5535. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5535.
Kyuchukov, Hristo, Adina Camelia Bleotu, and Tom Roeper. (2023). Roma Children Are Sensitive to the Recursive Set Subset Ordering Principle for Adjectives. Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Paris Gappmayr and Jackson Kellogg, 473-486. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. (2022). The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction Override Adjective Ordering Restrictions. Evidence from Romanian 4-year-olds and adults. In Ying Gong & Felix Kpogo (eds.), BUCLD 46: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, vol.1, pp. 62-75. Available at: http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-05.pdf.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. (2022). Children are more sensitive to the Recursive Set-Subset Ordering than to Adjective Ordering Restrictions. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, [S.I.], v.7, n.1, p. 5267. Available at: https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5267. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5267.
Deborah Foucault, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Usha Lakshmanan, Emma Merritt, Roehl Sybing, and Tom Roeper. (2022). Relative gradable adjective recursion such as small big big mushrooms is more challenging for children than possessive recursion such as the deer’s friend’s mushrooms. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, [S.I.], v.7, n.1, p. 5294. Available at: https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5294. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5294.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2021).The Parrot next to the Hamster (and) next to the Bunny Sheds Light on Recursion in Child Romanian. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 43, 2156-2161. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nh4450d.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia, & Tom Roeper. (2021). Small Big Flowers or Small and Big Flowers? Simple is Better and Roll-Up is Too Complex for Romanian 5-Year-Olds, In Danielle Dionne & Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (eds.), Proceedings of 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 1, 66-79. Available at: http://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-06.pdf.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Tom Roeper. (2021). Roll-Up is Too Complex for Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Evidence from Recursive Adjectives. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, [S.l.], v. 6, n. 1, p. 133–143, mar. 2021. ISSN 2473-8689. Available at: https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4953. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4953.
On denominal verbs
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. (2024). What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity. In Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley, 276–83. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Available at: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006091.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Rodica Ivan. (2023). SE figure reflexives alternate with Voice in Romanian: Insights from a semi-artificial denominal paradigm. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society 58, 29-45.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. (2020).The distinction between true and pseudo denominals? It’s an illusion! In M. Asatryan, Y. Song, & A. Whitmal (Eds.), NELS 50: Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (Vol. 1, pp. 39-48). Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Student Association, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts. Available at https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/00585.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2016). A Phrasal Spell-Out Account of Denominal Verbs in English and Romanian. In Kate, Bellamy, Elena Karvovskaya, Martin Kohlberger and George Saad (eds.), ConSOLE XXIII: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (7-9 January 2015, Paris), 175-199, Leiden: Leiden University. ISSN: 1574-499X.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2013). I Incorporate Nouns of Various Structural Positions and Thematic Roles, Therefore I Am (The Verb). In Balázs Surányi (ed.), Proceedings of the Second Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students, 24-43. Available online: http://cecils.btk.ppke.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bleotu_Iincorporate- nouns- of_REVISED_v6_fin_corr1.pdf. ISBN: 978-963-308-103-7
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2013). There is a Light (Verb) That Sometimes Goes Out in Weather Verbs. In Irina Windhaber and Peter Anreiter (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 47-64. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4804-2, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4804-6
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. (2012). Why Does IT Always Rain on Me? On Weather Verbs. In Balázs Surányi, Diána Varga (eds.), Proceedings of the First Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students, 59-82. Available online: http://cecils.btk.ppke.hu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Bleotu-Adina-Camelia- Why- Does-IT-Always-Rain-on-Me-On-Weather-Verbs.pdf. ISBN: 978963-308054-2
Manuscripts
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. Scalar implicatures with existential quantifiers in 5-year-olds: Insights from a coloring book task and an erasing task.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. The effect of distinctiveness, size and colour upon quantifier spreading interpretations in 5-year-olds.
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