Junior Research Fellow
Jorge Agulló holds a Junior Research Fellowship at Queens’ College and is, starting October 2025, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Cambridge. He serves as Associate Editor of Borealis. An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, as Associate Editor of Revista Española de Lingüística and as Associate Editor of Revista de Babel: Revista de Filología Hispánica.
My doctoral dissertation won the Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation, awarded by the Linguistic Society of Spain. I have previously lectured in the Department of Romance Studies in the University of Vienna (Austria) as a Postdoctoral University Assistant and in the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) as a predoctoral fellow. I have been been Visiting Researcher at the University of Montreal (2020-2021) and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Munich (2024) and at the University of Vienna (2024). I have written around twenty research papers and book chapters on syntax, grammatical variation, and diachronic syntax; specifically, on a) existential constructions in varieties of Spanish in contact with Catalan, b) resumptive pronouns from a sociolinguistic perspective, c) the internal structure of pronouns, d) unagreement phenomena in Catalan, Spanish, Galician and Brazilian Portuguese, and e) the diachrony and grammatical variation of relative clauses in Spanish. In the book The Syntax of Resumption in Spanish, currently in preparation, he proposes a fine-grained quantitative methodology to study the social stratification and grammatical variation of a complex syntactic phenomenon like resumptive pronouns. Novel data is brought to the fore on resumptive pronouns in Ibero-romance (Galician, Spanish, and Catalan), Western Indo-Iranian (Farsi / Persian), and Central Philippine (Bisayan and Tagalog), whose grammatical properties are studied comparatively.
I am currently editing the collective volume Theoretical approaches to clitics (Linguistik Aktuell, John Benjamins).
I am lecturing in three different papers in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge:
SP1: Introduction to the languages, literatures and cultures of the Spanish speaking world
SP11: The Hispanic languages
PG1: Introduction to the languages, literatures and cultures of Portuguese speaking countries
I have previously lectured in the University of Vienna (Austria) in Syntax of complex sentences (110152 VO) and European Spanish: Dialectal varieties (110204 SE), the Ludwig-Maximiliens University of Munich (Germany) in VO 2024S Syntax romanischer Sprachen, and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in Dialectology and Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Diachronic Phonology, and The History of Spanish. In Vienna, I supervised eight bachelor’s theses or Bachelorarbeiten.
Agulló, J. (2025). La atracción del caso o prolepsis en las oraciones de relativo del español. Boletín de Filología, 60(1), 239–270.
Agulló, J. (2024a). El efecto de definitud en variedades del español en contacto con catalán: Nuevos datos dialectales. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 101(9), 815–833.
Agulló, J. (2024b). El pronombre reasuntivo como mecanismo de concordancia preposicional. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a La Comunicación, 97, 121–137.
Agulló, J. (2024c). El pronombre átono en las construcciones existenciales como pronombre partitivo. Études Romanes de Brno.
Agulló, J. (2024d). Existential constructions, definiteness effects, and linguistic contact: At the crossroads between Spanish and Catalan. Language.
Agulló, J. (2023a). El pronombre reasuntivo en la sintaxis del español. Teoría sintáctica, distribución dialectal y estratificación sociolingüística. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Agulló, J. (2023b). Las oraciones de relativo predicativas en la sintaxis del español: Desarrollo diacrónico e indefinitud. Revista de Filología Española, CIII(1), 31–55.
Agulló, J. (2024). El desarrollo diacrónico de cada (vez) que: Rivalidad sintáctica y reubicación de variantes. La historia de la lengua en la era digital, 9.
Agulló, J. (2022). Las oraciones de relativo predicativas en español: Pronombres reasuntivos y variación dialectal. Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, 138(1), 161–191.
Agulló, J. (2019). Desde lo subléxico hasta lo sintáctico: Reasunción, sustantivos relacionales y sustantivos de parte-todo. Revista Signos, 52(100), 590–614.
Agulló, J. (2025a). Language contact and the obsolescence of the Definiteness Effect: New data from Spanish in contact with Catalan. In Locative and existential predication: On forms, functions and neighboring domains (pp. 191-213). Language Science Press.
García Tesoro, Ana Isabel & Agulló, J. (2025b). El español en contacto con otras lenguas. In Dialectología hispánica aplicada (pp. 127-143). Routledge.
Agulló, J. (2021). Oraciones de relativo con pronombre reasuntivo en el español de México del siglo XVI. In M. Fernández González, E. Caetano Álvarez, I. Cosentino, & M. Heredia Mantis (Eds), Del pergamino a la cinta de ocho milímetros: Estudios de historiografía e historia de la lengua española (pp. 51–70). Universidad de Huelva.
Agulló, J. (2022). No todos los dialectos del español existen igual. In A. Estrada Arráez, B. Martín, & C. De Benito (Eds), Como dicen en mi pueblo. El habla de los pueblos españoles (pp. 95–116). Pie de Página.
Agulló, J. (2018). Hacia una dialectología de la subordinación de relativo. La reasunción en la sintaxis del español. In TFM Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Vols 1–2017–2018, pp. 1–59). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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