SEPTEMBER 2022
2017: PhD in Theoretical Linguistics (Cum Laude), Autonomous University of Barcelona (2015/2016: Research visitor at the University of Groningen).
2012: MA in Research in Linguistics (Distinction), University College London.
2011: BA in English Philology (First Class), Autonomous University of Barcelona (2009/2010: Erasmus at the University of Edinburgh).
Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Information Structure, Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Interrogative Sentences, Ellipsis, L2 Acquisition, Grammar for Teachers
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (in press). "Ellipsis". In Gallego, Ángel J. and Cristina Sánchez López (eds.) A guide to Spanish dialects: descriptive and theoretical aspects of dialectal variation in the Hispanic world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier and Alfredo-García Pardo (2021). "Invariable qué questions in Spanish". In Colomina-Alimaña, Juan J. and Sandro Sessarego (eds.) Language Patterns in Spanish and beyond: structure, context and development. London: Routledge.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2021). "Las dislocaciones con clítico. Problemas analíticos y soluciones". In Escandell-Vidal, M. Victoria and Manuel Leonetti (eds.) La estructura informativa. Madrid: Visor, pp.277-318.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2020). Right Peripheral Fragments. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.258
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier and Mireia Llinàs-Grau (2018). "Rasgos de C y su adquisición en L2: una asimetría más entre el catalán y el inglés". In Rodríguez, Yolanda, Ángel J. Gallego and Javier Fernández-Sánchez (eds.) Relaciones Sin-tácticas. Bellaterra: Servei de publicacions de la UAB.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2016). "The clause-mate condition of remnants". In Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor and Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.) On the move. Bilbao: Publicaciones Deusto.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2023) Modal Ellipsis in Spanish is not Null Complement Anaphora. To appear in Linguistics.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier and Alfredo García-Pardo (2022) Teaching special questions. Hispania 105.
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2021) On the presence and absence of complementizers in two embedded gapping configurations in English, Spanish and Polish. Beyond Philology 18(3): 109-135. https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2021.3.04
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2020) Anteposiciones de tópico no referenciales. Lublin studies in modern languages and literature 44: 57-71. doi: https//doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.3.57-71
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier and Dennis Ott (2020). Dislocations. Language and Linguistics Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12391
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2019). Against a clausal ellipsis account of all stripping strings in Spanish, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 55: 53-87. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2019-0003
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2016). Topics at the left edge of infinitive clauses in Spanish and Catalan, Borealis 5: 111-134. doi: https://doi.org/10.7557/1.5.2.3852
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier (2015). An (only) apparent case of hyper raising in Spanish, Iberia 7: 1-32.
Llinàs-Grau, Mireia and Javier Fernández-Sánchez (2013). Reflexiones en torno a la supresión del complementante en inglés, español y catalán, Revista de la Sociedad española de lingüística 43: 55-88.
October, 2022: ¿Qué, de cháchara? Direct evidentiality in verbless qué-questions in Spanish. Workshop on Evidential Strategies in Romance Languages, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
November, 2020: Exophoric ellipsis meets extraction: the case of Modal Ellipsis. 34th Going Romance, University of Paris (France)
June, 2020: Modal ellipsis as surface anaphora. 50th LSRL, University of Texas at Austin (US).
June, 2020: The syntax-pragmatics interface of IQQs. 50th LSRL, University of Texas at Austin (US), joint work with Alfredo García-Pardo.
January, 2020: Revising Modal Ellipsis and Null Complement Anaphora in Spanish. Invited talk at University College London (UK).
November, 2019: Revising Modal Ellipsis in Spanish and Italian. Talk at the weekly seminar in linguistics at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
October, 2018: Invariable qué questions in Spanish. LingBaW, Lublin (Poland), joint work with Alfredo García-Pardo.
October, 2018: A monoclausal view of expletive questions. HLS, University of Texas at Austin (US), joint work with Alfredo García-Pardo.
May, 2018: “Invisibility in the left periphery and the problem of topic heads”. Invited talk at Cartography and Explanatory Adequacy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
May, 2018: Fake-expletive questions in Spanish. Colloquium of Generative Grammar, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), Poster presentation, joint work with Alfredo García-Pardo.
May, 2017: Against a clausal ellipsis account of all stripping strings. Colloquium of Generative Grammar. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain).
October, 2016: Embedded gapping isn’t gapping and embedded stripping, stripping. HLS, Georgetown University (US)
June, 2016: Embedded gaps as embedded fragment answers. Ellipsis Across Borders, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
June, 2016: Embedded gapping as embedded fragments. TABUDag, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands).
May, 2016: La dislocación a la derecha y la paradoja de Kayne. CILG, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
January, 2016: “Topics at the left edge of infinitive clauses”. ConSOLE, University of York (UK)
November, 2015: “Locality without movement in Dutch backgrounding”. NGSCL, Universitetet i Tromso.
June, 2014: “A biclausal structure for Right dislocation in Spanish”. WoSSP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
November, 2013: “Beware of focus: on Q-binding and right dislocation”. Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University College London (UK).
May, 2013: “How left is right?” Colloquium of Generative Grammar, UCM (Spain)
