Visiting researcher at Romanisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln (Köln, Germany) (3 months). CLICK.
Supervisors: Dr. Marco García García & Dr. Javier Caro Reina.
Funding: Prominence Fellowships 2026 (Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1252 Prominence in Language - B04 - Interaction of nominal and verbal features for Differential Object Marking, Universität zu Köln).
Main results:
Presentation "Definiteness restrictions on implicit arguments across domains and languages" (together with Steffen Heidinger & Yanis da Cunha), ImpArg 2026, Universität Graz, 28/9/26. [international conference]
Presentation "Definiteness restrictions on implicit arguments across domains and languages" (together with Steffen Heidinger & Yanis da Cunha), SinFonIJA 19, Universität Graz, 30/9/26. [international conference]
Presentation "Definiteness restrictions on implicit arguments across domains and languages" (together with Steffen Heidinger & Yanis da Cunha), Silent Arguments: pro-drop and argument ellipsis in theory, acquisition and diachrony, Universität Konstanz, 15/10/26. [international conference]
Presentation "Spanish Indefinite Null Arguments as NP-ellipsis", WECOL 2026, California State University, Fresno, 14/11/26. [international conference]
Presentation "Definiteness restrictions on implicit arguments across domains and languages" (together with Steffen Heidinger & Yanis da Cunha), ÖLT 2026, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, 20/11/26. [international conference]
Presentation "Spanish indefinite argument drop is lexically constrained", KoRoLi 2026, Universität zu Köln, 24/11/26. [international conference]
Visiting Researcher at Dept. Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, United States) (3 months).
Supervisor: Dr. José Camacho.
Funding: Supplementary mobility grants for beneficiaries of the University Teacher Training program (FPU) - EST24/00098 (Spanish Ministerio de Universidades).
Main results:
Presentation "Indefinite Null Subjects and Indefinite Null Objects in Spanish", TiL, University of Illinois Chicago, 4/10/24. [international conference]
Presentation "Indefinite Argument Drop in Spanish", WECOL 2024, California State University, Fresno, 17/11/24. [international conference]
Presentation "Acceptability of definite null objects among heritage speakers of Spanish" (together with José Camacho), LSRL55-LEC, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 11/9/25. [international conference]
Presentation "Definite null objects among heritage speakers of Spanish" (together with José Camacho), WECOL 2025, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 21/11/25. [international conference]
Presentation "Definite null objects among heritage speakers of Spanish in the US" (together with José Camacho), panel La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje: ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (2.ª edición) (within the conference LIV Simposio de la SEL), CCHS-CSIC, 26/1/26.
Paper CAMACHO, José & MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍA, Carlos (to appear, 2027): "Acceptability of Denite Null Objects among Heritage Speakers of Spanish". In R. Núñez-Cedeño, E. Willis & M. Coler (eds.). De Gruyter-Brill. [international book chapter]
Visiting Researcher at Institut für Romanische Srpachen und Literaturen, Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (3 months).
Supervisor: Dr. Esther Rinke.
Funding: Supplementary mobility grants for beneficiaries of the University Teacher Training program (FPU) - EST23/00059 (Spanish Ministerio de Universidades).
Main results:
Organizing committee of the international conference NOCroDeP 2023. [international conference]
Scientific committee at the international conference NOCroDeP 2023, Goethe-Universität. CLICK. [international conference]
Presentation "Is a [definite] feature needed to account for anaphoric null subjects in Spanish?", panel NULL in Morphology and Syntax (within the conference XXXVIII. Romanistentag), Universität Leipzig, 27/9/23. [international conference]
Presentation "Definite Null Objects in Spanish: The Case of Recipes", Kolloquium für Examenskandidat*innen und Doktorand*innen, Goethe-Universität, 6/11/23. [international conference]
Presentation "Comparing Indefinite Readings of Referential Null Subjects and Referential Null Objects", NOCroDeP 2023, Goethe-Universität, 7/12/23. [international conference]
Presentation "On the relation between indefinite object drop and the distribution of object bare nouns: the role of lexical restrictions” (poster) (together with Esther Rinke & Nelli Kerezova), GoRo 2024, Universidade do Minho, 6/12/24. [international conference]
Paper MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍA, Carlos, RINKE, Esther & KEREZOVA, Nelli (2025): "Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained". Glossa: a jorunal of general linguistics 10(1), 1-43. CLICK. [international journal]
Presentation "Lexical Constraints on Spanish and Portuguese Indefinite Object Drop" (together with Esther Rinke & Nelli Kerezova), NOCroDeP 2025, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 23/10/25.
Presentation "Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained in Spanish and Portuguese" (together with Esther Rinke & Nelli Kerezova), panel La elipsis y la arquitectura del lenguaje: ¿Cuándo puede elidirse qué y por qué? (2.ª edición) (within the conference LIV Simposio de la SEL), CCHS-CSIC, 26/1/26.
Presentation "Lexical Constraints on Spanish and Portuguese Indefinite Argument Drop" (poster) (together with Esther Rinke & Nelli Kerezova), CGG35, Universitat de Barcelona, 28/5/26.
Paper MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍA, Carlos, RINKE, Esther & KEREZOVA, Nelli (2026): "A unified view on indefinite subject and object drop in Spanish: internal arguments of intransitive constructions as a test case". Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 12, 1-31. CLICK. [international journal]
WiGL 19 Best Abstract Award (University of Wisconsin-Madison). [international award]
International doctoral degree (Complutense University of Madrid).
First Prize 3-Minute Thesis preliminary phase (Escuela de Doctorado, Complutense University of Madrid). CLICK.
Amount: 300€
Accesit 3-Minute Thesis final phase (Escuela de Doctorado, Complutense University of Madrid). CLICK.
Amount: 100€
First Prize PhDay Complutense (Escuela de Doctorado, Complutense University of Madrid). CLICK.
Amount: 800€
National Prize of Hispanic Philology (Sociedad Española de Excelencia Académica).
Special End-of-Studies Award (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, University of Alcalá).
Number One in Hispanic Studies (Asociación de Amigos, University of Alcalá).
Prominence Fellowships 2026 (Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1252 Prominence in Language - B04 - Interaction of nominal and verbal features for Differential Object Marking, Universität zu Köln). [international grant]
Funded activity: Visiting Researcher at Romanisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln (Köln, Germany) (3 months).
Amount of the grant: 5400€
Grants for the participation in conferences and mobility of UCM PhD students (2024-2025) (Escuela de Doctorado, Complutense University of Madrid).
Funded activity: "Acceptability of definite null objects among heritage speakers of Spanish" (together with José Camacho), LSRL55-LEC, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 10/9/25.
Amount of the grant: 400€
Supplementary mobility grants for beneficiaries of the University Teacher Training program (FPU) - EST24/00098 (Spanish Ministerio de Universidades).
Funded activity: Visiting Researcher at Dept. Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, United States) (PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, Complutense University of Madrid).
Amount of the grant: 5608€
Supplementary mobility grants for beneficiaries of the University Teacher Training program (FPU) - EST23/00059 (Spanish Ministerio de Universidades).
Funded activity: Visiting Researcher at Institut für Romanische Srpachen und Literaturen, Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, Complutense University of Madrid).
Amount of the grant: 4126€
Grants for the participation in conferences and mobility of UCM PhD students (2022-2023) (Escuela de Doctorado, Complutense University of Madrid).
Funded activity: "Objetos tácitos indefinidos y objetos explícitos indefinidos: Comer vs. Comer algo", XV CILG, Complutense University of Madrid, 15/6/23.
Amount of the grant: 30€
UCM scholarships of excellence for the start of official master Studies (Complutense University of Madrid).
Funded activity: Master in Research in Hispanic Linguistics (Investigación en Lengua Española), Complutense University of Madrid. Mark: 9.54/10.
Amount of the grant: 2000€
Collaboration grant in University Department - 19CO1/008535 (Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional).
Funded activity: Paleographic Transcription and Critical Edition of Andalusian texts from the 17th and 18th centuries for Corpus CODEA+ 2015, Dept. Filología, Comunicación y Documentación, University of Alcalá.
Amount of the grant: 2000€
Course grant (Fundación Chile-España).
Funded activity: Course E-spañol y tecnologí@: de Andrés Bello y Menéndez Pelayo a la era digital, International University Menéndez Pelayo.
"ENTREVISTA; TESIS EN 3 MINUTOS — Informativo 13H", Interview Inforadio UCM, 25/6/24. CLICK.
"Aspectos gramaticales de sujetos y objetos tácitos", 3-Minute Thesis (final phase), Complutense University of Madrid, 14/6/24. CLICK.
"Aspectos gramaticales de sujetos y objetos tácitos", 3-Minute Thesis (preliminary phase), Complutense University of Madrid, 23/5/24. CLICK.
"Sujetos y objetos tácitos en español", 3-Minute Thesis (preliminary phase), Complutense University of Madrid, 18/5/23. CLICK.
Moderator at the panel discussion "Sobre la vida predoctoral: caminos y perspectivas", XI Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas, Complutense University of Madrid, 28/3/23.
"La gramática del silencio: Nuevos desarrollos teóricos", PhDay Complutense, Complutense University of Madrid, 6/10/22.
Member of Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL) (since 2022).
Member of Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (AJL) (2026-2027).
Member of Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (AJL) (2022-2023).
Member of Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) (since 2026). [international membership]