Dr Txuss Martin

Queens' College
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Dr Txuss Martin

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Location

  • Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom

About

Prior to his Cambridge appointment in 2018, Dr Txuss Martin worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Language & Mental Health project at the University of Durham, investigating the role of the human faculty of language in the creation of referentiality and consciousness, i.e. how the structure of language creates reference to world and how that structure creates the formal ontology defined by human consciousness.

    Dr Martin graduated in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona in 2004, subsequently entering the MA programme on Cognitive Science and Language at the same university. He received a PhD in Linguistics at New York University in 2012 with a dissertation entitled Deconstructing Romance Object Clitics, under the supervision of renowned Prof. Richard Kayne.

Research

Research interests: 

  • Linguistics, Philosophy, Cognitive Science.
  • Syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: quantification, polarity, event structure, information structure, indexicality.
  • Syntax-morphology interface: internal structure of (pro)nominals in Romance and Germanic languages, distributed morphology.
  • Philosophy of grammar: language, cognition, and consciousness.

Recent research projects: 

  • Language and Mental Health: linguistic phenotypes across mental disorder​
  • UnCartesian linguistics

Published works: 

ARTICLES

  1. The configuration of referential meaning through alloforms. To appear in Mind & Language (2025)
  2. A new argument for linguistic determinants of human thought (2024). Linguistics and Philosophy 47 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-024-09414-8] (with Martina Wiltschko & Wolfram Hinzen).
  3. The cognitive function of determination (with Kristen Schroder). To appear in Armoskaite & Wiltschko (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Determiners. Oxford University Press (2024).
  4. On deixis and entropy. [Manuscript] (2024).
  5. The grammatical bases of ontology and viceversa. [Manuscript] (2024).
  6. Linguistics in practice: Scientia ex Machina: A cross-curricular classroom introduction to general linguistics. In Corr & Pineda (eds.) Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-University Classroom. Oxford University Press (2023).
  7. Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case. Borealis 10.2: 238-263 (with Ioanna Sitaridou & Wolfram Hinzen)
  8. De se or not de se: A question of grammar (with Wolfram Hinzen) Language Sciences (2021) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101343].
  9. For an approach to language with biocognitive import: The dismissal of specificity and other issues” (with J. Rosselló). In Boeckx, Mendívil-Giró & Horno (Eds.) Language from a Biological Point of View. Current Issues in Biolinguistics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 14-22 (2014).
  10. Conciliating modern evolutionary theory and language evolution research” (with Lluis Barceló-Coblijn). In McCrohon, Thompson, Verhoef & Yamauchi (Eds.) The Past, Present and Future of Language Evolution Research. Evolang 9 Organizing Committee, 100–107 (2014).
  11. The grammar of the essential indexical (with Wolfram Hinzen). Lingua 148: 95-117 (2014).
  12. Deconstructing object clitics. NYU Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 1-19 (2009).
  13. Another linguistics is possible, Nature, Culture, and the Study of Language. In Rosselló & Martín (Eds.) The Biolinguistic Turn. Issues on Language and Biology. Barcelona: Publicacions Universitat de Barcelona, 198-216 (2006).
  14. The Biolinguistic Turn (with J. Rosselló). In Rosselló, J. & J. Martín Eds. (2006) The Biolinguistic Turn. Issues on Language and Biology. Barcelona: Publicacions Univ. Barcelona, 1-23 (2006).

BOOKS

  1. Weimar. Temps incerts (Weimar. Uncertain times) (2024) Graphic novel. Barcelona: Norma [Published in Catalan and Spanish] 
  2. Principia Grammatica. A Kantian Turn in the Study of Language. [In preparation].
  3. Deconstructing Clitics [Manuscript] (2019).
  4. El clític datiu és més que un clític.” Winner of the II edition of International Prize for Research on Catalan Linguistics (with Cedric Boeckx) [Published in Catalan and in English] (2012).
  5. The Biolinguistic Turn. Issues on Language and Biology (with Joana Rosselló). Barcelona: Publicacions Universitat de Barcelona (2006).

OUTREACH WORK

EXHIBITION: Temps incerts, Alemanya entre guerres [https://caixaforum.org/ca/barcelona/p/temps-incerts_a168689526]. To be exhibited in CaixaForum Madrid (October 2024-February 2025) and CaixaForum Barcelona (April-August 2025)

COMIC BOOK: Scientia ex Machina [https://sem.fundaciorecerca.cat/index.html]. Series of comic books to popularise the scientific study of language.

EXHIBITION: Talking Brains. Programmed to talk [https://www.pavconhecimento.pt/en/exhibitions/talking-brains]. A journey on human language through the brain. (Opened in Barcelona in 2016 and travelling ever since).