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Staff Profile

Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera

Lecturer in Pragmatics

Background

I am a Lecturer in Pragmatics. I got my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut in 2020. Before joining the academic staff at Newcastle University, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. I am the associate director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I am also an associate editor of Glossa: a journal of general Linguistics and Borealis - An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics.

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

I am an associate editor of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics and Borealis - An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics.

Research

My research interests lie in semantics, pragmatics and morphosyntax, as well as their interfaces 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, quantification, topicalization, focus association, and locality of movement. I am currently participating in a project that promotes the documentation and revitalisation of Saraguro Kichwa, which is spoken in Ecuador.

Teaching

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

SEL2234 Pragmatics

Publications