2023 *selected list of presentations, see CV for the full list

• Ausensi, Josep, Ryan Walter Smith and Jianrong Yu. The roots of strong and weak resultatives in English and Spanish. Poster presentation at The 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2023), Denver, CO, January 5 – 8.

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2021

• Ausensi, Josep. The division of labor between grammar and the lexicon: A middle ground between lexicalism and neoconstructionism. Invited talk at Monthly lecture, Debrecen Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Debrecen. October 14.

• Ausensi, Josep. Towards a root-sensitive approach to event structure. Invited talk at University of Debrecen, Department of English Linguistics. October 13.

• Ausensi, Josep, Ryan Walter Smith and Jianrong Yu. A root-sensitive approach to event structure. Oral presentation The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2021), Online. September 6 – 9.

• Bigolin, Alessandro and Josep Ausensi. Against a lexicalist account of the Argument-Per-Subevent Condition. Oral presentation at The syntax of argument structure alternation across frameworks - SAS21 within The 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE 2021), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, August 31–September 3.

• Ausensi, Josep and Alessandro Bigolin. The compositional nature of manner and result. Poster presentation at The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), The University of Arizona, April 8–11.

• Ausensi, Josep and Alessandro Bigolin. A syntactic approach to the Argument-Per-Subevent Condition. Poster presentation at The 45th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 45), University of Pennsylvania, March 19–21.

• Ausensi, Josep, Ryan W. Smith and Jianrong Yu. On the non-decomposability of arrive-type verbs and the Bifurcation Thesis. Poster presentation at The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2021), San Francisco, CA, January 7–10.

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2020

• Ausensi, Josep. On the division of labor between roots and event templates. Invited talk at Seminars of the Research Group on Language and Linguistics (ROLLING), Universitat Rovira i Virgili. February 24.

• Ausensi, Josep. The structure of (sub)event structure. Oral presentation at Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar Workshop (EESLiG), University of Oxford, September 15–16.

• Ausensi, Josep, Ryan W. Smith and Jianrong Yu. Directed motion entailments in the semantics of roots. Oral presentation at  The 25th Sinn und Bedeutung conference (SuB 25), University College London and Queen Mary University of London, September 3–5.

• Ausensi, Josep. The semantics of roots determines argument structure. Oral presentation at The 25th Sinn und Bedeutung conference (SuB 25), University College London and Queen Mary University of London, September 3–5.

• Ausensi, Josep. Deconstructing resultatives: the Unique Path Constraint revisited. Oral presentation at The 44th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 44), University of Pennsylvania. March 27 – 29.

• Ausensi, Josep. Resultatives and the architecture of event structure. Oral presentation at The 38th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 38), The University of British Columbia, March 6–8.

• Ausensi, Josep, Jianrong You and Ryan W. Smith. Repetitive presuppositions with 'again': un-severing the external argument. Oral presentation at The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2020), New Orleans, LA, January 2–5.

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2019

• Ausensi, Josep. Transitivity alternations in Romance: the case of the conative alternation in Old Spanish. Invited talk at Anglia Ruskin – Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars (ARC), University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. February 7.

• Ausensi, Josep. The semantics of killing. Invited talk at The Syntax Reading Group (SRG), University College London. January 16.

• Ausensi, Josep and María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia. Intransitivity and causativity in the division between English vs. Romance. Oral presentation at Going Romance XXXIII, The Leiden University Center for Linguistics, November  28–29.

• Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep M. Fontana and Cristina Real-Puigdollers. Building (adjectival) resultatives in Old Romance. Oral presentation at The 29th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 29), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. May 22–24.

• Ausensi, Josep. The implications of manner and result for (in)direct causation. Oral presentation at The 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 55), The University of Chicago. May 16–18.

• Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep M. Fontana and Cristina Real-Puigdollers. Revisiting (adjectival) resultatives in Old Romance. Oral presentation at The 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 49), The University of Georgia. May 1–4.

• Ausensi, Josep. Agent entailments within the semantics of roots. Oral presentation at The 43rd annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 43), University of Pennsylvania. March 22–24.

• Ausensi, Josep. Agent entailments induce manner properties. Poster presentation at  The 27th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE 2019), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. February 21–23.

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2018

• Ausensi, Josep. Revisiting the way-construction and the elasticity of change of state verbs in English. Oral presentation at The Eleventh Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 11), Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. October 11–13.

• Ausensi, Josep. On verbal elasticity: the view from the way-construction in English. Oral presentation at The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2018), The University of Sheffield. September 11–14. 

• Ausensi, Josep. On the way-construction's sensitivity to scalar changes. Poster presentation at The 23rd Sinn und Bedeutung conference (SuB 23), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. September 5–7. 

• Ausensi, Josep. Why can't you die your way out of somewhere? Oral presentation at The 15th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP 2018), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. June 28–29.

• Ausensi, Josep. The network reconfiguration of the Old Spanish auxiliary verb system. Oral presentation at The XIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General (CILX 2018), Universidade de Vigo. June 13–15.

• Ausensi, Josep. On the unergative–unaccusative distinction: the view from the way-construction in English. Poster presentation at The 28th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 28). Universitat Rovira i Virgili. May 31–June 1. 

• Ausensi, Josep. The semantics of kill, murder and slay. Oral presentation at The Endpoints, scales, and results in the decomposition of verbal predicates Workshop (ENDPOINTS), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. January 30–31.