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Maria-Josep Cuenca is a Professor of Catalan Linguistics at the University of Valencia (Spain) and member of the Catalan Language Academy (Institut d’Estudis Catalans). Her research focusses on text grammar and discourse analysis, especially, deixis, compound sentences, connectives, discourse markers and interjections, among other subjects related to the interface between syntax and discourse. She is also interested in similes and metaphor in the general framework of Cognitive Linguistics. She has been visiting scholar in different universities, such as Università degli Studi di Venezia University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and University of Cambridge.

Cuenca is a member of the spin-off Tecnolingüística, S.L., where she is in charge of the coordination of the area of translation, and is also a translator mainly from English and Italian to Catalan and Spanish. Cuenca has been the director of the project Gramàtica Essencial de la Llengua Catalana at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, which resulted in two grammars: Gramàtica Essencial de la Llengua Catalana (2018, geiec.iec.cat) and Gramàtica Bàsica i d’Ús de la Llengua Catalana (2019).

Cuenca was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and PhD Studies between 2002 and 2007.