Josep Ausensi

[ dʒuˈzɛp̚ ] [ awˈsɛnsi ]

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Faculty of Arts

Avinguda Catalunya, 35

D2 building, Office 2.12

43002 Tarragona

josep.ausensi [at] urv.cat

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Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor (Professor Lector) in the Department of English and German Studies at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. I obtained my PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2021.

My research is centered on lexical semantics, verb meaning, syntax-lexicon interface, argument and event structure. I am interested in the interaction between meaning and syntactic structure, i.e in how verb meaning can determine or constrain syntactic structure and vice versa.

Some of the topics I have worked on include the expression of resultativity, manner/result complementarity, argument structure alternations, unaccusativity-unergativity, intentionality.

Feel free to contact me regarding potential collaborations or projects related to my areas of research.

Recent and upcoming

May 27-29, 2026: Conference organization, 35th edition of the Colloquium on Generative Grammar to be held at Universitat de Barcelona.

February 27, 2026: Talk at the Seminars of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Optionally causative manner verbs in Catalan: A contextual allosemy approach.

January 21, 2026: Doctoral seminar, Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Las publicaciones académicas en lingüística: Una introducción paso a paso [Academic publications in linguistics: A step-by-step introduction].

December 10, 2025: Doctoral seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The publication process: A step-by-step introduction from a linguistics perspective.

November 3, 2025: Talk at the Seminars of the Research Group on Language and Linguistics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, The interface between semantics and the lexicon: Verb meaning at the crossroads of conceptual and structural semantics.

May 27, 2025: New paper in Acta Linguistica Academica (with Anna Pineda), On hybrid verb classes: The view from meal verbs in Romance.

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