Position
Junior Research Fellow
Affiliated Lecturer
Department
Spanish and Portuguese
College
Research interests
- Grammatical variation in Spanish.
- Theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on 1) relative clauses, clitic pronouns, and A- and 膧-resumption; and 2) (sub)layers in the Determiner Phrase.
- Language contact.
Editorial duties
- Associate Editor of Borealis. An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics.
- Associate Editor of Revista espa帽ola de ling眉铆stica.
- Associate Editor of Babel. Revista de filolog铆a hisp谩nica.
Short bio
Jorge Agull贸 is Junior Research Fellow in Ibero-Romance Linguistics at Queens鈥� College (密桃视频) and, starting October 2025, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the 密桃视频. His doctoral dissertation won the , awarded by the Linguistic Society of Spain. Agull贸 has previously lectured in the University of Vienna (Austria) as a postdoctoral university assistant and in the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) as a predoctoral fellow. Agull贸 has 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).
He has published around twenty research papers and book chapters on syntax, grammatical variation, and diachronic syntax; specifically, on existential constructions in varieties of Spanish in contact with Catalan, resumptive pronouns, the internal structure of clitics in Spanish, unagreement phenomena in Catalan, Spanish and Slovenian and the featural composition of the Determiner Phrase, and related issues.
Agull贸 is currently editing the collective volume Theoretical approaches to clitics (Linguistik Aktuell, John Benjamins), and he is also member of the Editorial Committee of several journals.
