txuss martin position: fourth year phd candidate research interests: syntax, semantics, syntax/semantics interface, biolinguistics education: BA in Philosophy & BA in Linguistics 2004, universitat de barcelona , Catalonia languages: catalan and spanish (native); english and french (correct); deutsch (nur ein bisschen). contact: txuss dot martin at nyu dot edu CV (pdf)

I am academically interested in two related topics: the structure of the human faculty of language (linguistics) and how that structure can shed light on human nature (philosophy). I insert my research within the relatively new paradigm of biolinguistics. There, researchers on different disciplines work together to understand language (including its evolution) from the point of view of the natural sciences. As for my more immediate research interests in formal semantics and syntax, my foci of interest are mainly two: (1) interface properties like quantifier scope, polarity sensitivity, event structure, and information structure; (2) the internal structure of the DP and the CP.

downloads:
another linguistics is possible (pdf)
give me a sign (pdf)
fragile equilibrium (with Violeta Vazquez-Rojas) (pdf)
non-negative negations (pdf)
deconstructing dative clitics (NYUWPL)(pdf)

courses (fall 2009):
seminar on syntax (R. Kayne & Stephanie Harves),

TA (spring 2009):
Language and Mind
(taught by Lisa Davidson & Liina Pylkkänen)

links: evolang (7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language) wikipedia, vilaweb, avui, transportation alternatives NYC, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy