Universidade de São Paulo

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidade de São Paulo*

Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design. Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:2 (2017)

Edited by Priscila Lena Farias & João Queiroz

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Discourse studies

[Information Design Journal, 23:2] 2017. | special issue

Tradition, Tension and Translation in Turkey

Edited by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker & John Milton

Subjects Communication Studies | Language policy | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 118] 2015. xiii, 311 pp. |

Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax

Edited by Jairo Nunes

Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp. | edited volume

History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, São Paulo - Campinas

Edited by Eduardo Guimarães & Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros

Subjects History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 110] 2007. x, 242 pp. | edited volume

Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Orthography and Phonology. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10–13 March 2004

Edited by Otto Zwartjes & Cristina Altman

Subjects History of linguistics | Language policy

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 109] 2005. vi, 292 pp. | edited volume

Nóbrega, Vitor Augusto 2026 Exocentric compounding and implicit heads: Insights from Romance argumental and possessive compounds

Keywords: headedness | exocentricity | argumental compounds | possessive compounds | Romance languages

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 57–87

Gaddi, Carlo Martins & Marcelo Fernandes da Costa 2026 Comparing the ranking of chromatic basic colour names with corresponding colour preferences in children and adults using psychophysical interval scale

Keywords: colour cognition | colour preference | chromatic Basic Colour Term | colour saliency | colour categorisation | children | law of Comparative Judgement | ranking order procedure | interval scale | psychophysical method

In: Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla & Dimitris Mylonas (eds.)  pp. 58–73

Fernandes Góes Neto, Antônio & Artur Garcia Gonçalves 2026 Indigenous knowledge and defiance in the Northwest Amazon: The politics of translating knowledge in Baniwa — Koripako schools

Keywords: sociology of translation | politics of translation | Baniwa — Koripako people | Northwest Amazon

Translation in Society | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Bertolino, Karina 2024 The acquisition of generic null subjects under the Borer-Chomsky conjecture

Keywords: Borer-Chomsky conjecture | null subject | parameter setting | Brazilian Portuguese

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 58–85

Macagno, Fabrizio & Ana Carolina Trevisan 2024 Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic: Uses of arguments and manipulative tactics in institutional social media communication

Keywords: argumentation | discourse analysis | manipulation | pandemic | trust | info-arguments | campaigning | decision-making | fallacies

In: Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] pp. 240–283

Cobbinah, Alexander 2024 Tail-head linkage in Upper Guinea Coast languages: The areal diffusion of pragmatic-syntactic structures (Baïnounk, Joola and Creoles)

Keywords: Tail-Head-Linkage | Upper Guinea | discourse cohesion | rhetoric structure | syntactic strategy

In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 394–424 | open access

Altman, Cristina 2021 Review of Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography by E. F. K. Koerner (2020)

Historiographia Linguistica 48:1 pp. 127–135 | book review

Nakaema, Olivia Yumi 2021 Politeness in João Rodrigues’s grammars of Japanese: A terminological analysis

In: Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018, Zwartjes, Otto & Paolo De Troia (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] pp. 155–174

Curti-Contessoto, Beatriz, Isabelle de Oliveira & Lidia Almeida Barros 2021 Changes in the concept designated by the term mariage civil throughout the history of French law 1791–2013

Keywords: civil marriage | semantic evolution | diachronic terminology | legal language | legal domain | legislative changes

Terminology 27:1 pp. 140–162 | article

Augusto, Marina, Erica Rodrigues & Elaine Grolla 2021 Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

Keywords: PP Relative Clauses | intervention | elicitation tasks | Brazilian Portuguese

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 39–66

Martins, Ana Maria & Jairo Nunes 2021 Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages

Keywords: null subjects | consistent/partial pro-drop languages | ellipsis | verbal agreement morphology | pronominal system | feature valuation | feature prominence | person | number | gender | case

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Drijkoningen, Frank, Sergio Baauw & Luisa Meroni (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] pp. 171–190

Storto, Luciana R. 2020 Count and mass nouns in Dâw

Keywords: Dâw | Naduhup | Brazil | nouns | semantics | count | mass | quantification | numerals | bare nouns

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 219–229 | article

Silva-Reis, Dennys & John Milton 2019 The history of translation in Brazil through the centuries: In search of a tradition

Keywords: historiography of Brazilian translation | history of Brazilian translation | translation in Brazil | interpretation in Brazil

In: A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves & Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 145] pp. 395–417

Pereira, Fabio Mariano Cruz & Priscila Lena Farias 2020 Information, typography and persuasion in Brazilian late 19th and early 20th century ephemera

Keywords: ephemera | book labels | print culture | design history | graphic memory

Information Design Journal 25:2 pp. 171–191 | article

Galucio, Ana Vilacy & Antônia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira 2018 From object nominalization to object focus: The innovative A-alignment in the Tuparian languages (Tupian family)

Keywords: internal reconstruction | nominalization | focus construction | morphosyntactic alignment | Tuparian languages | Tupian family

Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:1 p. 95 | article

Hassemer, Julius & Leland McCleary 2020 The multidimensionality of pointing

Keywords: gesture form | imaginary forms | geometry | taxonomy | classification | deixis | iconicity

Gesture 17:3 pp. 417–463 | article

Petter, Margarida, Esmeralda Vailati Negrão & Evani Viotti 2018 The Africa-Brazil continuum: The case of passives and impersonal constructions

Keywords: Brazilian Portuguese | Angolan Portuguese | Kimbundu | impersonal constructions | linguistic continuum

In: The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] pp. 211–236 | open access

Modesto, Marcello 2018 Inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and the theory of Control

Keywords: minimalism | inflected infinitives | Brazilian Portuguese | Movement theory of Control | Two-tiered Theory

In: Complement clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition, Santos, Ana Lúcia & Anabela Gonçalves (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17] p. 59

Farias, Priscila Lena & João Queiroz 2017 Editorial

Information Design Journal 23:2 pp. 125–126 | article

Farias, Priscila Lena & João Queiroz 2017 Visualizing triadic relations: Diagrams for Charles S. Peirce’s classifications of signs

Information Design Journal 23:2 pp. 127–147 | article

Hassemer, Julius & Bodo Winter 2016 Producing and perceiving gestures conveying height or shape

Keywords: representational gestures | precision grip | gesture perception | hand shape | iconicity

Gesture 15:3 pp. 404–424 | article

Storto, Luciana 2014 Review of The languages of the Amazon by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2012)

Studies in Language 38:2 pp. 427–435 | book review

Nunes, Jairo 2014 Adjunct Control and edge features

In: Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork & Lilia Schürcks (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 11] p. 79

Cavalcante, Rerisson 2011 Negative imperatives in Portuguese and other Romance languages

In: Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] pp. 205–220

Fontanari, Jose Fernando & Angelo Cangelosi 2011 Cross-situational and supervised learning in the emergence of communication

Interaction Studies 12:1 pp. 119–133 | article

Milton, John 2012 Adaptation

In: Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves & Luc van Doorslaer (eds.) [Handbook of Translation Studies, 1] pp. 3–6

Pezza Cintrão, Heloísa 2010 Magnifying glasses modifying maps: A role for translation theory in introductory courses

In: Why Translation Studies Matters, Gile, Daniel, Gyde Hansen & Nike K. Pokorn (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 88] pp. 165–182

Nunes, Jairo 2009 Chapter 1. Brazilian Portuguese under minimalist lenses

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] p. 3

Nunes, Jairo & Cynthia Zocca 2009 Chapter 10. Lack of morphological identity and ellipsis resolution in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 215–236

Ferreira, Marcelo 2009 Chapter 2. Null subjects and finite control in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 17–49

Floripi, Simone & Jairo Nunes 2009 Chapter 3. Movement and resumption in null possessor constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 51–68

Kato, Mary Aizawa & Jairo Nunes 2009 Chapter 5. A Uniform raising analysis for standard and nonstandard relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] p. 93

Nunes, Jairo & Raquel S. Santos 2009 Chapter 6. Stress shift as a diagnostics for identifying empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 121–136

Nunes, Jairo & Cristina Ximenes 2009 Chapter 9. Preposition contraction and morphological sideward movement in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 191–214

Nunes, Jairo 2009 Dummy prepositions and the licensing of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007, Aboh, Enoch O., Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] pp. 243–266

Nóbrega, Thelma Médici & John Milton 2009 The role of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in bringing translation to the fore of literary activity in Brazil

Keywords: Augusto de Campos | Concrete poetry | Décio Pignatari | Haroldo de Campos | translation in Brazil

In: Agents of Translation, Milton, John & Paul Bandia (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 81] pp. 257–277

Altman, Cristina 2008 Colonialism, scientific expeditions and linguistics in 19th century Brazil

In: History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 112] pp. 212–227

Bošković, Željko & Jairo Nunes 2008 The copy theory of movement: A view from PF

In: The Copy Theory of Movement, Corver, Norbert & Jairo Nunes (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] pp. 13–74

Dayrell, Carmen 2007 A quantitative approach to compare collocational patterns in translated and non‑translated texts

Keywords: translation | translated language | collocation | lexical patterning | monolingual comparable corpora | Portuguese

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:3 pp. 375–414 | article

Altman, Cristina 2002 Meeting Vivien Law, Oxford, September 1996

Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2 pp. 17–18 | other

Setzer, Valdemar W. 2002 Review article: “Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are not Machines” by James H. Fetzer

Pragmatics & Cognition 9:2 pp. 293–312 | review article

Milton, John 2008 The Translation of Mass Fiction

In: Investigating Translation: Selected papers from the 4th International Congress on Translation, Barcelona, 1998, Beeby, Allison, Doris Ensinger & Marisa Presas (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 32] pp. 171–179

Altman, Cristina 2000 The ‘Brazilian Connection’ in the History of American Linguistics: The notebook of Joaquim Mattoso Câmara

Historiographia Linguistica 26:3 pp. 355–382 | article

Altman, Cristina 1997  … and the Word was God: Missionary Linguistics and Missionary Grammar. Ed. by Even Hovdhaugen

Historiographia Linguistica 24:3 pp. 400–404 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.