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Carlos Martínez-García is hired as a predoctoral researcher (FPU20/04298, Spanish Ministry of Universities) since 2021, at the Department of Spanish Language and Theoretical Literature, Complutense University of Madrid. His research area is syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface, with a contrastive perspective, considering Romance languages and English. Most of his career focuses on how null objects are interpreted and licensed in Spanish, and on the comparison between the licensing conditions of null objects and other null arguments (such as subjects or datives) in Spanish and different Romance languages. For this purpose, Carlos Martínez-García combines a formal approach with the theories of ellipsis (especially with argument ellipsis).

Additionally, Carlos Martínez-García is a member of the team of the University of Alcalá that collaborates with the Real Academia Española in the elaboration of the Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI), to which he has contributed since 2018.

On this webpage, you can find Carlos Martínez-García's publications, presentations, and projects, among other information.

Research areas: Spanish, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Grammatical Variation, Ellipsis, Anaphora, Null Objects, Null Subjects, Null Arguments.