Research

Summary of CV

Carlos Martínez-García's research area is syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface with a general contrastive perspective, considering Romance languages and English. His research topics, mostly developed at Complutense University of Madrid under the predoctoral contract FPU20/04298 (Spanish Ministerio de Universidades), include null objects, null subjects, null datives and ellipsis. He studies how null objects are interpreted and licensed in Spanish and compares the licensing conditions of null objects and other null arguments in Spanish and different Romance languages. For this purpose, Carlos Martínez-García combines a formal approach with the theories of ellipsis.

Regarding his international projection, it can be attested through publications in international journals (Borealis, Glossa), international book chapters (John Benjamins) and international conferences in several countries (International Congress on Syntax, in Portugal; XXXVIII. Romanistentag and NOCroDeP 2023, in Germany; LSRL55, in the Dominican Republic; and 26th OSUCHiLL, 27th OSUCHiLL and WECOL 2024, in the US, among others). He has also been visiting researcher at Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), where he co-organized the international conference NOCroDeP 2023, and at University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, US), under the funding of Ministerio de Universidades (EST23/00059 and EST24/00098 respectively).

As to his projects, Carlos Martínez-García has developed his research plan within the general framework of the research group Gramática teórica del español (Complutense University of Madrid) and the financed research project Variación gramatical del español: microparámetros en las interficies de la sintaxis con los niveles morfológico-léxico y semántico discursivo (PID2021-123617NB-C43, Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) (Complutense University of Madrid). He has also belonged to the teaching innovation project Gramaolimpiadas: construyendo puentes (Complutense University of Madrid), and to projects related to AI, such as Lengua Española e Inteligencia Artificial (LEIA), a joint enterprise of Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española), Complutense University of Madrid and Amazon Web Services. Additionally, he has experience with real data and dialectal variation as a team member working on the elaboration of a corpus of contemporary Spanish (Adquisición, conversión a formato electrónico y codificación de textos para el CORPES XXI), a joint enterprise of Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española) and the University of Alcalá to which Carlos Martínez-García has contributed since 2018.

Regarding his scientific, technical and assessment skills, Carlos Martínez-García has participated in scientific committees of international journals (Borealis, Glossa), books (John Benjamins), projects (Innova-Docencia UCM) and contests (Olimpiadas de Gramática UCM). He has co-organized international (NOCroDeP 2023) and national (L Simposio y IV Congreso de la SEL, XI Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas, VII SPADISYN, XXXVII Congreso Internacional de la AJL, "Elipsis y arquitectura del lenguaje. ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué?", at LII Simposio de la SEL, "Marcado diferencial de objeto en español. Descripción, análisis y nuevas perspectivas", at LIII Simposio de la SEL) conferences, and several contests on Spanish grammar (Olimpiadas de Gramática UCM).

Carlos Martínez-García has also received several awards for his studies and research career. As to his degree, he obtained an average grade of 9.64/10, was ranked #1 of his class (2019-2020), received the Number One Degree in Hispanic Studies Diploma (Número Uno Grado en Estudios Hispánicos), the Special End-of-Studies Award (Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carrera) from the University of Alcalá, and the National Award in Hispanic Studies (2021) from Sociedad Española de Excelencia Académica (SEDEA). As to his master's, he obtained an average grade of 9.54/10. Regarding his doctorate, he was awarded the first prize for the best thesis project at Complutense PhDay (2022), and at 3-Minute Thesis preliminary phase (2024), two contests for Ph.D students sponsored by the Escuela de Doctorado at Complutense University of Madrid. Additionally, he has also received the WiGL 19 Best Abstract Award (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025).