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Staff Profile

Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera

Lecturer in Pragmatics

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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 缅北禁地, 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, Open Research Champion and the Combined Honours Liaison for English Linguistic Studies in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

I am an associate editor of and B.

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

I usually teach the following modules:

SEL1028 Introduction to the Structure of Language 2: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics

SEL2234 Pragmatic Theory

Publications

  • Articles

    • Koulidobrova E, Martínez Vera G. . Language Acquisition 2026, 33(1), 104-133.
    • Martínez Vera G, Camacho J. . Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2025, 10(1), 1-36.
    • Martinez Vera G. . Languages 2025, 10(11), 276.
    • López Otero JC, Jimenez A, Martínez Vera G. . Second Language Research 2024, 41(4), 675-707.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Living Languages 2024, 3(2), 53-107.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Natural Language Semantics 2024, 32, 1-34.
    • Koulidobrova, E, Martínez Vera, G, Kurz, K, Kurz, C. . Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2023, 8(1), 1-44.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2023, 12(1), 37-73.
    • Martínez Vera G, Lopez Otero JC, Sokolova M, Cleveland A, Marshall MT, Sánchez L. . Languages 2023, 8(3), 201.
    • Martínez Vera G. . The Linguistic Review 2022, 39(1), 159-202.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Languages 2021, 6(1), 28.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2021, 6(1), 94.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Linguistics and Philosophy 2021, 44, 695-735.
    • Martínez Vera G. . The Linguistic Review 2020, 37(3), 393-431.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics 2019, 31(1), 187-231.
    • Martínez Vera G. . Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 2016, 2(2), 63-94.

  • Authored Book

    • Martinez Vera G. . Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 2020.

  • Edited Book

    • Martinez Vera G, Rinke E, ed. . Basel: MDPI, 2022.