Staff Profile

I am a Lecturer in Pragmatics (starting September 2020). I got my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut in December 2020. Before joining the academic staff at Newcastle University, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. I am also an affiliated member of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I am currently the Combined Honours Liaison for English Linguistic Studies in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

My research interests lie in semantics, pragmatics and morphosyntax, as well as their interfaces (including the syntax-prosody interface) and bilingualism. My research has focused on Romance languages (Latin American and European Spanish, Brazilian and European Portuguese, and heritage and L2 Spanish) and Andean languages (Quechua, Aymara), as well as American Sign Language, within a cross-linguistic perspective. Some of the topics I work on are evidentiality, aspect, verbs of change of state and location, degree constructions, topicalization, focus association, and locality of movement. I am currently participating in a project that promotes the revitalization of Saraguro Kichwa, which is spoken in Ecuador.

SEL2234 Pragmatics

SEL3437 Pragmatic Theory

SEL1028 Introduction to the Structure of Language 2: Morphology and Meaning

Feedback and Consultation Hours: Tuesday, 14:30-16 and Thursday, 10:15-11:45

• Martinez Vera G, Rinke E, ed. Language contact and Multilingualism. Basel: MDPI, 2022.
• Martínez Vera G. Revisiting aspectual se in Spanish: telicity, statives and maximization. The Linguistic Review 2022, 39(1), 159-202.
• Martínez Vera G. Degree achievements and degree morphemes in competition in Southern Aymara. Linguistics and Philosophy 2021, 44, 695-735.
• Martínez Vera G. Degree achievements and maximalization: a cross-linguistic perspective. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2021, 6(1), 94.
• Martínez Vera G. On Derived Change of State Verbs in Southern Aymara. Languages 2021, 6(1), 28.
• Martínez Vera G. On Phase-over-Phase Configurations and Phase Collapsing: wh-extraction in V + de + CP clauses in Spanish. The Linguistic Review 2020, 37(3), 393-431.
• Martinez Vera G. On the Semantics of Evidentials in Southern Aymara [PhD Dissertation]. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 2020.
• Martínez Vera G. Phases, labeling, antilocality and intonational phrases: recomplementation in Spanish. Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics 2019, 31(1), 187-231.
• Martínez Vera G. Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 2016, 2(2), 63-94.