CUNY Academic Commons

Linguistics, Syntactic Theory, The Syntax-Semantics Interface, Sentential Complementation, Main Clause Phenomena, Factivity, Referentiality, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Justice, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, TESOL

2007                Ph.D. in Linguistics. Stony Brook University.

1999                MA in TESOL. Stony Brook University.

1995                RSA/Cambridge CTEFLA. St. Giles College, Brighton, England.

de Cuba, Carlos & Poppy Slocum. (2020). Standard Language Ideology is alive and well

in public speaking textbooks. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4715

de Cuba, Carlos. (2018). Manner-of-speaking that-complements as close apposition structures. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3. 32:1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4320

de Cuba, Carlos.  (2017). Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. 2(1): 3. 1–46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.53.

de Cuba, Carlos. (2014). In defense of the truncation hypothesis for main clause phenomena. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.  https://cla-acl.artsci.utoronto.ca/actes-2014-proceedings/

de Cuba, Carlos. (2014). On the claim that noun complements are relative clauses. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2014.
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/ExtendedAbs

de Cuba, Carlos & Jonathan E. MacDonald. (2014). Truncation in the Spanish left-periphery: fragment answers and recomplementation. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2014. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/ExtendedAbs

de Cuba, Carlos & Jonathan E. MacDonald. (2013). Referentiality in Spanish CPs. In M. Victoria Camacho Taboada, Ángel Jiménez Fernández, Javier Martín González and Mariano Reyes Tejedor (eds.). Information Structure and Agreement. 117-140.
John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.197.04cub

de Cuba, Carlos & Jonathan E. MacDonald. (2013). On the referential status of embedded polarity answers in Spanish. In Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, et al. (eds.). 312-323. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2943. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/16/paper2943.pdf

de Cuba, Carlos. (2010). On the intervention account of main clause phenomena restrictions: NPI licensing and EV2. Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 36 (2-3), 179-187. DOI: 10.1515/thli.2010.012

de Cuba, Carlos & Barbara Ürögdi. (2010). Clearing up the ‘facts’ on complementation. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 16 (1), Article 6. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=pwpl

de Cuba, Carlos & Barbara Ürögdi. (2009). Eliminating factivity from syntax: sentential complements in Hungarian. In Marcel Den Dikken & Robert Vago (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian. Vol. 11. John Benjamins.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.11.03cub

de Cuba, Carlos. (2007). Negative polarity licensing, factivity and the CP-field. In Irene Barberia, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza & Susana Huidobro (eds.), ASJU-International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 41.2. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0f89/a2ff8ec74af3bd24c6991fc90c7f414b8435.pdf

de Cuba, Carlos & Ivana Mitrović. (2008). Restrictions on wh-adjunct movement in Serbian. In Franc Marušić and Rok Žaucer (eds.), Studies in Formal Slavic Linguistics. 37-54. Peter Lang.

de Cuba, Carlos & Tomoko Kawamura. (2008). Intensionality and extraction as reflexes of syntactic structure. In Sylvia Blaho, Camelia Constantinescu & Erik Schoorlemmer (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XV. 25-40.

de Cuba, Carlos. (2006). The adjunction prohibition and extraction from non-factive CPs. In Donald Baumer, David Montero and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 123-131. Cascadilla.

de Cuba, Carlos. (2006). Embedded verb-second in Swedish, cP and intensionality. In Tomoko Kawamura, Yunju Suh & Richard Larson (eds.), Stony Brook Occasional Papers in Linguistics: Intensionality and Sentential Complementation. Vol. 1, 2-21. Stony Brook University.

 Edited volumes

Subotić, Ljiljana, John Bailyn, Carlos de Cuba, Radmilla Djurić, Aleksandar Kavgić, Tatjana Milićev, Ivana Mitrović & Radmila Šević (eds.). (2009). Novi Sad Generative Syntax Workshop 2 Proceedings. Filozofski fakultet, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Subotić, Ljiljana, John Bailyn, Carlos de Cuba, Ivana Mitrović & Radmila Šević (eds.). (2008). Novi Sad Generative Syntax Workshop Proceedings. Filozofski fakultet, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Invited talks

Relatively nouny? German Linguistic Society (DGfS) Workshop, “On the nouniness of propositional arguments” at the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Freiburg i. B., Germany. Feb. 24, 2021

In a referential manner of speaking. Workshop on the Syntax and the Semantics of Manner-of Speaking Verbs. University of Bucharest, Romania. May 28, 2021

Types of that-clauses. Rutgers Clausal Complementation Workshop. Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy, Rutgers University. April 6, 2018

Refereed conference presentations

Identifying and Eliminating Discrimination Based on Accent or Dialect from the Classroom. Workshop Organized with Poppy Slocum and Laura Spinu. Workshop facilitators included Eric Conte, Ivana Espinet, Jason Leggett, Anna Maria La Franceschina and Alexandria Mancini. CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference. April 14-15, 2021

Standard Language Ideology is alive and well in public speaking textbooks. 94th Linguistic Society of America Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. January 2-5. 2020 (with Poppy Slocum).

Linguistic Diversity at CUNY: Challenges and Solutions. Panel presentation with Gila M. Acker, Poppy Slocum and Laura Spinu. Individual presentation in the panel: Linguistic diversity in public speaking textbooks. (with Poppy Slocum). Minding the Gap: Retaining & Sustaining the Academic Community. The 4th Biennial CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March 29, 2020

Many Englishes, One Classroom: Creating future Spaces for Language Variation in Communication Courses.  Panel presentation with Alyse Keller, Poppy Slocum and Laura Spinu. Individual presentation in the panel: Attitudes towards “Non-standard Language” in Public Speaking Textbooks: Creating a Less Biased Future Classroom. (with Poppy Slocum). 110th Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention, Providence, Rhode Island. April 10-14.

Honoring Language Diversity in Communication Education. Panel presentation with Sarah Black, Andy Kai-chun Chuang, A. Todd Jones, Katherine Nelson, Sarah Seewoester Cain, Poppy Slocum and Nicholas Zoffel. Individual presentation in the panel: Deficit vs. Difference approaches to dialects in the classroom. National Communication Association’s 105th Annual Convention: Communication for Survival. Baltimore, Maryland. November 14-17.

Manner-of-speaking that-complements as close apposition structures. 92nd Linguistic Society of America Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. January 4-7, 2018

Subordination and manner-of-speaking complements. Subordination in Generative Linguistics Conference. University College London. May 24, 2017

In a referential manner of speaking. Poster Presentation. The 41st Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. March 24-26, 2016   

Speech Acts, Root Phenomena and Truncation. GLOW Workshop: Phonological and Syntactic Reconstruction of Speech Acts. The 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 39), University of Göttingen, Germany. (Alternate). April 8, 2016