Universidade do Porto

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidade do Porto*

Rinke, Esther, Daniel M. K. Weingärtner, Cristina Flores, Mercedes Martinez Bruera, Andrea Listanti, Juliana Novo Gomes & Sol Lago 2025 Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change?: Comparing heritage speakers with speakers of two varieties of Portuguese in their comprehension of null object constructions

Keywords: heritage speakers | diachronic change | Portuguese | null objects | comprehension

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article | open access

Neto, Félix, Joana Neto & Etienne Mullet 2025 Experienced saudade in times of COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords: anxiety | COVID-19 | empathy | fear | saudade | well-being

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 19 pp. | article

Silva, Carlos & Steven Moran 2025 Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles

Keywords: Portuguese-based creoles | language contact | consonant stability

Diachronica 42:1 p. 82 | article | open access

Wang, Bin 2025 Sisterhood construction through commenting by Chinese women

Keywords: commenting as a speech act | sisterhood | post-feminist discourse(s) | Chinese social media

Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 pp. 367–390 | article

Ge, Yichang, Fátima Silva & Fátima Oliveira 2025 Thermal and metaphorical meanings: Analysing temperature adjectives in European Portuguese

Keywords: temperature adjectives | thermal readings | metaphorical readings | European Portuguese | corpus

The Mental Lexicon 19:1 pp. 170–179 | article

Duarte, Isabel Margarida & Maria Aldina Marques 2023  Vós and other pronominal forms of address ( tu, você, vocês ): Speakers’ perceptions of Brazilian and European Portuguese

Keywords: European Portuguese | Brazilian Portuguese | social prestige | pronominal address variation | speakers’ perceptions | pragmatics

In: It’s different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole & Roel Vismans (eds.) [Topics in Address Research, 5] pp. 272–293

Fehn, Anne-Maria & Jorge Rocha 2024 Lost in translation: A historical-comparative reconstruction of Proto-Khoe-Kwadi based on archival data

Keywords: Southern African Khoisan | Khoe-Kwadi | historical-comparative method | language contact | click consonants | Southern African prehistory

Diachronica 40:5 pp. 609–665 | article

Maia, Marcus & Juliana Novo Gomes 2023 Cultural attitudes and linguistic processes in Karajá

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 70–75 | article commentary

Mesquita, Ana B., Inês Salomé Morais, Luís Faísca, Alexandra Reis & São Luís Castro 2022 Predictors of adult spelling in an orthography of intermediate depth

Keywords: spelling | college students | adults | European Portuguese

Written Language & Literacy 25:1 p. 99 | article

Silvano, Purificação, António Leal & João Cordeiro 2021 On adverbial perfect participial clauses in Portuguese varieties and British English

Keywords: adverbial perfect participial clauses | corpus-based study | Portuguese varieties | British English | typology | temporal interpretation | aspectual classes | ordering | tense

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. 263–286

Zagar Galvão, Elena 2020 Gesture functions and gestural style in simultaneous interpreting

In: Linking up with Video: Perspectives on interpreting practice and research, Salaets, Heidi & Geert Brône (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 149] pp. 151–179

Postarnak, Svetlana, São Luís Castro & Susana Silva 2021 The role of linguistic prosody in the responses to recited poetry

Keywords: poetry | linguistic prosody | comprehension | preference | aesthetics | syntactic hierarchy

Scientific Study of Literature 10:2 pp. 228–249 | article

Filipe, Marisa, Sónia Frota, Adrienne Villagomez & Selene G. Vicente 2016 Prosody in Portuguese Children with HighFunctioning Autism

Keywords: autism | high-functioning autism | Portuguese | prosodic impairments | prosody

In: Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen & Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] pp. 277–294

Marques, Rui, Purificação Silvano, Anabela Gonçalves & Ana Lúcia Santos 2015 Sequence of tenses in complementation structures: Lexical restrictions and effects on language acquisition

Keywords: complement clauses | language acquisition | sequence of tenses | temporal dependence

In: Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras & Elena Valenzuela (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] pp. 69–88

Graça Pinto, Maria da, Paulo Osório & Fernanda Martins 2014 A theoretical contribution to tackling certainty and uncertainty in scientific writing: Four research articles from the journal Brain in focus

In: Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni & Carla Canestrari (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 25] pp. 291–308

Matos, Gabriela & Ana Maria Brito 2013 The alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] p. 83

Silva, Cláudia 2013 Writing in Portuguese chats :): A new wrtng systm?

In: Typology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. & Terry Joyce (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 51] pp. 147–160

Teixeira, Maria Antónia Gaspar 2013 Zur Münchhausen-Rezeption in Portugal: Eine Fallstudie

In: Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010, Way, Catherine, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts & Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 108] pp. 283–294

Silva, Cláudia 2011 Writing in Portuguese chats :): A new wrtng systm?

Written Language & Literacy 14:1 pp. 143–156 | article

Sleeman, Petra & Ana Maria Brito 2010 Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach

In: Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro & Nerea Madariaga (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] pp. 113–130

Maia, Belinda 2009 Machine translation and human translation: Using machine translation engines and corpora for teaching and research

In: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] pp. 123–145

Oliveira, Fátima 2011 Some Issues about the Portuguese Modals dever and poder

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14:1 pp. 167–184 | article

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