Books

Ausensi, Josep. 2023. The Division of Labor between Grammar and the Lexicon: An Exploration of the Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Roots. Studies in Generative Grammar, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Journal articles

Ausensi, Josep and Anna Pineda. 2025. On hybrid verb classes: The view from meal verbs in Romance. Acta Linguistica Academica 72(2), 295-318.

Ausensi, Josep, Ryan Walter Smith and Jianrong Yu. 2024. On the expression of resultativity in English: The view from multiple resultatives. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 9(1), 1 – 32.

Ausensi, Josep and Alessandro Bigolin. 2024. Hybrid subjects in Spanish and Catalan: Halfway between agents and patients. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 9(1), 1 – 28.

Yu, Jianrong, Josep Ausensi and Ryan Walter Smith. 2023. States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots: Evidence from resultative constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 41(4), 1589 – 1628.

Ausensi, Josep and Alessandro Bigolin. 2023. On the argument structure realization of result verbs: A syntactic approach. Acta Linguistica Academica 70(1), 139 – 160.

Mangialavori Rasia, María Eugenia and Josep Ausensi. Stativity and inchoativity: The undiscussed key role of estar in Old Spanish. Spanish in Context 20(2), 343 – 366.

Ausensi, Josep. Unaccusativity and the way-construction in English. Linguistic Analysis 43(1-2), 41 – 69.

Ausensi, Josep and Alessandro Bigolin. 2021. Resultatives and low depictives in English. The Linguistic Review 38(4), 573 – 604.

Bigolin, Alessandro and Ausensi, Josep. 2021. A new resultative construction in Spanish? A reply to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga. Folia Linguistica 55(2), 517 – 546.

Ausensi, Josep, Jianrong Yu and Ryan Walter Smith. 2021. Agent entailments and the division of labor between functional structure and roots. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 6(1): 53, 1 – 25.

Articles in refereed volumes

Ausensi, Josep. to appear. The interface between semantics and the lexicon: Verb meaning at the crossroads of structural and conceptual semantics. In Fábregas, Antonio, Laia Mayol, Clàudia Pons Moll and Yanina Prystauka (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ausensi, Josep and Sebastian Buchczyk. to appear. Exploring rhetorical imperatives in Catalan and German. In Espinal, M. Teresa and Xavier Villalba (eds.), Expressive meaning and speech acts. Leiden: Brill.

PhD thesis

Ausensi, Josep. 2021. The contribution of roots: The division of labor between grammar and the lexicon in meaning composition. Universitat Pompeu Fabra dissertation.