Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)*

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] 2018. | edited volume | open access

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach

Edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron & Marilda C. Cavalcanti

Subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 173] 2008. vii, 315 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

Applied Linguistics in Latin America: AILA Review, Volume 18

Edited by Kanavillil Rajagopalan

Subjects Applied linguistics

[AILA Review, 18] 2006. | yearbook

Tescari Neto, Aquiles, João Francisco Bergamini-Perez & Bruno Ferreira de Lima 2026 Diagnosing features in syntactic derivation: The role of adverbs

Keywords: adverbs | Jackendoff’s criterion | decompositionality principle | Cinque’s hierarchy | features

In: Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] pp. 142–175

Guesser, Simone, Flore Kédochim & Raquel Sousa 2025 On ‘why’ in Brazilian Portuguese

Keywords: syntactic cartography | wh-questions | why | negation | syntactic islands | Cinque hierarchy

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] pp. 495–510 | open access

Cyrino, Sonia 2025 On the syntax of missing objects: The case of Brazilian Portuguese

Keywords: null objects | generative syntax | Brazilian Portuguese

In: Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar & Cristina Flores (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 19] pp. 49–81

Meer, Philipp & Ryan Durgasingh 2025 Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality — The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity

Keywords: pluricentricity | pluriareality | language standardization | language variation | German | English | Dutch | World Englishes | epicenter | national varieties

In: Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp & Ryan Durgasingh (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 32] pp. 1–14

Durgasingh, Ryan & Philipp Meer 2025 Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity

Keywords: pluricentricity | pluriareality | complementarity | epicenter | language variation | standard

In: Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp & Ryan Durgasingh (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 32] pp. 187–195

Fontolan, Marina, Janaina Pamplona da Costa & James Wilson Malazita 2024 The Cake is a Lie: On video games, localization and authenticity

Keywords: localization | authenticity | video games | Science and Technology Studies | game studies

Digital Translation 11:1 pp. 25–44 | article

Cyrino, Sonia & Monica Alexandrina Irimia 2023 Differential object marking in Brazilian Portuguese

Keywords: differential object marking | Brazilian Portuguese | animacy | sentential ellipsis

In: Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation, Irimia, Monica Alexandrina & Alexandru Mardale (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] pp. 135–159

Signorini, Inês 2024 Algorithmic power and scientific knowledge

Keywords: digital technologies | scientific literacy | linguistic ideologies | globalization | internationalization | Brazil

Language, Culture and Society 5:2 pp. 231–245 | article

Hänsel, Eva Canan, Michael Westphal, Philipp Meer & Dagmar Deuber 2022 Context matters: Grenadian students’ attitudes toward newscasters’ and teachers’ accents

Keywords: language attitudes | Standard English | contextualization | Grenada | education | newscasting | verbal guise technique

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1 pp. 16–52 | article

Andrade, Aroldo de & Susann Fischer 2022 Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates?

Keywords: grammaticalisation | degrammaticalisation | periphrasis | old Catalan | old Portuguese | clitic climbing | intervening adverbs

In: From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates, Garachana Camarero, Mar, Sandra Montserrat Buendia & Claus Dieter Pusch (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 31] pp. 189–209

Meer, Philipp, Thorsten Brato & José Alejandro Matute Flores 2021 Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods

Keywords: automatic formant prediction | FAVE | Trinidadian English | vowels | New Englishes | formant ceiling optimization | automated acoustic analysis

English World-Wide 42:1 pp. 54–84 | article

Meer, Philipp, Robert Fuchs, Anika Gerfer, Ulrike Gut & Zeyu Li 2021 Rhotics in Standard Scottish English

Keywords: Standard Scottish English | rhotics | rhoticity | sociophonetics | sound change

English World-Wide 42:2 pp. 121–144 | article

Raso, Tommaso, Plínio A. Barbosa, Frederico A. Cavalcante & Maryualê M. Mittmann 2020 Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team proposal

Keywords: speech segmentation | boundaries | phonetic features | inter-rater agreement | information structure annotation

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 309–326

Barbosa, Plínio A. 2020 Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages

Keywords: automatic speech segmentation | duration | prosodic boundary | cross-linguistic comparison

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 285–300

Kato, Mary A. 2020  Wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French

Keywords: Brazilian Portuguese | Quebec French | structural change | phonological change | wh-movement

In: Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel & Sandra Quarezemin (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] pp. 135–150

Lopes, Ruth E. V. 2020 Some low ellipses in Portuguese: A phase-based analysis

Keywords: V-stranding VP ellipsis | anaphoric null objects | phases | Brazilian Portuguese

In: Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel & Sandra Quarezemin (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] pp. 151–166

Tescari Neto, Aquiles 2020 Diagnosing verb raising: The view from cartography

Keywords: generative syntax | cartography | verb raising | adverbs | the Cinque Hierarchy

In: Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel & Sandra Quarezemin (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] pp. 167–190

Sandalo, Filomena 2020 Individuation, counting, and measuring in the grammar of Kadiwéu

Keywords: classifiers | aggregates | partition | measurement | counting | groups

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 239–254 | article

Cyrino, Sonia & M.Teresa Espinal 2020 Number as an adjunct in Romance

Keywords: pluralizer | adjunct | determiner | nominalizer | Romance

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Del., Vogel, Irene (ed.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] pp. 77–92

Galves, Charlotte 2019 Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese

In: The determinants of diachronic stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert & Melissa Farasyn (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] pp. 191–214

Álvarez López, Laura & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar 2018 Introduction

Keywords: Afro-Brazilian continuum | Portuguese | Africa | Brazil

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. 1–16 | open access

Galves, Charlotte 2018 Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese

Keywords: I-language | agreement | preposition | pronominal system

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. 17–42 | open access

Frateschi Vieira, Yara 2018 Estudo literário das cantigas de Martim Codax [A Literary Study of Martin Codax’s Cantigas ]

Keywords: Martin Codax | thematic unity | narrative unity | parallelism | structural analysis | seriality | rhetoric | formal markers | creativity

In: The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry, Guerra, Alexandre R. & Bieito Arias Freixedo (eds.)  pp. 25–38

Kato, Mary A. 2018 Morphological doublets in Brazilian Portuguese wh-constructions

Keywords: wh-questions | Brazilian Portuguese | doublets | optionality | diachrony | wh-movement

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Repetti, Lori & Francisco Ordóñez (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] pp. 135–152

de Avelar, Juanito Ornelas & Laura Álvarez López 2018 Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese

Keywords: Brazilian Portuguese | Angolan Portuguese | existential constructions | locatives | motion verbs

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. 185–210 | open access

López, Laura Álvarez, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar 2018 The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

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] | open access

Galves, Charlotte 2018 The Tycho Brahe Corpus of Historical Portuguese: Methodology and results

Keywords: Tycho Brahe Corpus | parsed corpus | Classical Portuguese | V-to-C | V2 grammar | loss of V2 | subject position

Linguistic Variation 18:1 pp. 49–73 | article

Espinal, M.Teresa & Sonia Cyrino 2017 On weak definites and their contribution to event kinds

Keywords: weak definites | event kinds | property of kinds | telic stereotypical information | Romance

In: Boundaries, phases, and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo & Isabel Párez-Jimánez (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] pp. 129–150

Lopes, Ruth E.V. & Sonia M. L. Cyrino 2016 On null objects and ellipses in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya & Teresa O'Neill (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] pp. 257–276

Sheehan, Michelle & Sonia M. L. Cyrino 2016 Variation and change in the Romance faire-par causative

Keywords: Catalan | Causatives | clause union | clitic climbing | diachrony | faire-par | French | Italian | microparameters | nominalization | passive | Portuguese | Spanish

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon, Carrilho, Ernestina, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo & Sandra Pereira (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] pp. 279–304

Cyrino, Sonia M. L. & M. Teresa Espinal 2015 On the structure of bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012, Smith, Jason & Tabea Ihsane (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] pp. 215–228

Kato, Mary Aizawa 2014 The role of the copula in the diachronic development of focus constructions 
in Portuguese

In: Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène & Eric Mathieu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] pp. 297–314

Cyrino, Sonia M. L. 2013 Argument promotion and SE-constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, van Gelderen, Elly, Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] pp. 285–306

Cyrino, Sonia M. L. 2013 On richness of tense and verb movement in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 297–318

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

Ornelas de Avelar, Juanito 2009 Chapter 7. The comitative-copular basis of possessive-existential constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

In: Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax, Nunes, Jairo (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] pp. 139–160

Cavalcanti, Marilda C. 2005 Applied Linguistics: Brazilian perspectives

Keywords: Brazil | Latin America | Applied Linguistics | historical overview

AILA Review 17:1 pp. 23–30 | article

Navas, Ana Luiza G. P. 2004 Implications of alphabetic instruction in the conscious and unconscious manipulations of phonological representations in Portuguese-Japanese bilinguals

Keywords: bilinguals | phonological representations | reading acquisition | speech errors | phonological awareness | alphabetic instruction

Written Language & Literacy 7:1 pp. 119–131 | article

Kato, Mary Aizawa 2008 Child L2 acquisition: An insider account

In: (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism, Müller, Natascha (ed.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] pp. 271–293

Chesterman, Andrew & Rosemary Arrojo 2000 Shared Ground in Translation Studies

Target 12:1 pp. 151–160 | discussion

Schmitz, John Robert 1998 Review of The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language by A. PENNYCOOK (1994)

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 119-120:1 pp. 155–160 | book review

Rajagopalan, Kanavillil 1998 Lawrence Venuti: The Translator's Invisibility

Babel 44:4 pp. 362–365 | other

Schmitz, John Robert 1998 Reforma Ortográfica, Planejamento e Difusão Linguística: O Caso da Língua Portuguesa

Language Problems and Language Planning 22:3 pp. 254–266 | article

Rajagopalan, Kanavillil 1997 Douglas Robinson: Translation and Ta-boo

Babel 43:4 pp. 365–368 | other

Ruben, Guilhermo & Victoria R. Ruben 1996 Comments on “The structuralism of claude Lévi-Strauss“

Historiographia Linguistica 23:1/2 pp. 237–241 | other

Schmitz, John Robert 1993 Review of Dicionários: Parentes e Aderentes by Aula Almeida (1988)

Language Problems and Language Planning 17:1 pp. 71–76 | book review

Schmitz, John Robert 1993 Review of Dicionário Gramatical de Verbos do Português Contemporâneo do Brasil by Francisco Da Silva Borba &  et al. et al. (1990)Review of Dicionário Contrastivo Luso-Brasileiro by Mauro Villar (1989)

Language Problems and Language Planning 17:1 pp. 72–76 | book review

Dascal, Marcelo 1975  Leibniz als Sprachforscher. By Sigrid (Hedwig Helene, Gräfin) von der Schulenburg

Historiographia Linguistica 2:3 pp. 389–401 | book review

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