Name: Manuela Ambar
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Academic Degree: Ph.D
Professional Status: Professor at the Linguistics Department, University of Lisbon (Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa).
CLUL's Research Sector: Laboratory of Psycholinguistics
Research Areas: comparative syntax, theoretical syntax
Academic Degrees:
2006 Agregação (Academic Title). General and Romance Linguistics 2nd group A. University of Lisbon.
1989 Doutoramento em Letras “Linguística Portuguesa”, PhD in Theoretical Syntax and Comparative Syntax - word order, University of Lisbon. Thesis title: Para uma Sintaxe da Inversão Sujeito Verbo. Thesis supervisors: Richard Kayne (M.I.T.) and Malaca Casteleiro (University of Lisbon).
1976 MA Romance Philology (Licenciatura em Filologia Românica) University of Lisbon.
1974 BA Romance Philology (Bacharelato em Filologia Românica), University of Lisbon.
Positions
2006-2008 President, Linguistics Department (Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica).
Since 1989 Professor, Linguistics Department (Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica).
1978-1989 Assistente, Linguistics Department (Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica).
1976-1978 Monitor, Linguistics Department (Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica).
Activities:
Selected education stages
1982-1989 Universités de Paris VIII et de Paris VII, France - working with Nicolas Ruwet, Richard Kayne, Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Jacqueline Guéron, Hans Obeanuer, a.o..
1986, 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US - Visiting Scholar,
and 1997 proposals by Richard Kayne in 1986, Noam Chomsky in 1987.
Invited Visiting Professor
1989, July University of Girona
1990, June University of Rabat
1992, October Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada (UQAM).
1994, June University of Vienna, Austria.
1995, April University of Poitiers, France
1996, May Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada (UQAM) et U. Sherbrooke.
2001, March University of Trieste, Italy.
2001, May Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada (UQAM).
2002, September University of Trieste, Italy
2003, October Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada (UQAM).
2005, January USP (Universidade de São Paulo), Brasil, CNPQ.
2005, May-June Université de Paris 7, France, CNRS (dossier submitted, Ref. VB912-338075).
Summer Schools
1989 Girona International Summer School in Linguistics, Girona, Spain. (Invited Professor; other invited Professors: Esther Torrego and Jean-Yves Pollock).
1990 International Institute of the Linguistic Society of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco. (Invited Professor, other invited Professors : Joe Emonds, Jacqueline Guéron, Teun Hoekstra, Anna Maria Di-Sciullo, Jean-Yves Pollock, Eric Reuland, Alain Rouveret).
Editorial/Advisory Boards
1989- Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, Italy.
1993- DELTA (Revista de Documentação de Estudos em Linguística), Brasil.
2002- Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Portugal.
Reviews for (from 1989 to present):
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Probus
John Benjamins
MIT Press
Congress Scientific Committees
15th GLOW Colloquium – Lisbon, 1992 (President).
6th Colloquium on Generative Grammar – Spain, 1996.
XIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística – Lisbon 1997.
ConSOLE 6 – Lisbon 1997.
Eléments Minimaux de la Variation Linguistique – Paris, 1997-1999.
8th Colloquium on Generative Grammar – Palmela, 1998.
9th Colloquium on Generative Grammar – Spain, 1999.
10th Colloquium on Generative Grammar – Spain, 2000.
24th GLOW Colloquium – Braga, 2001.
XXVIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa – Italy, 2002.
Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition with special reference to Romance Languages – Lisboa, 2004.
9ème Atelier des Doctorants en Linguistique – Paris, 2005.
18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, 2008.
LSRL proceedings.
Going Romance (multiple).
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (multiple).
Grants
BAL - Bureau d’Action Linguistique, France, 1983,1985.
Luso-American Educational Comission (Comissão Cultural Luso-American), 1986.
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1987.
JNIC/JNICT, 1987.
University of Vienna, 1994.
FLAD (Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento), 1997
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996.
UQAM (Universidade du Québec à Montréal), 1992, 1996, 2003.
CNPQ, USP (Universidade de São Paulo), 2005.
CNRS de Paris, Université de Paris 7, 2005.
Administrative Experience
1989-1991 Scientific Board Faculdade de Letras, UL.
1989-1991 Executive Committee of the Department of Linguistics.
1992-1998 Coordinator of the Linguistics Master at the Department of Linguistics.
1993-1994 Coordinator of the National Portuguese Examination (access to the University, collaboration with Eduardo Chitas).
1991-1993 Portuguese Coordinator of an Erasmus project with the Universities of Venice, Italy and Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (PIC-91-E-1143/09).
1999- Socrates program with the University of Trieste, Italy. Italian Coordinator: Prof: G. Longobardi.
2006-2008 President of the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
2006-2008 Scientific Board of Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
2007-2009 ‘Grupo de Reflexão Estratégica sobre a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa’.
2008-2010 Faculty of Letters Assembly.
Scientific Meetings Organization
1989 Generative Grammar workshop. Óbidos, Portugal.
1992 15th GLOW Colloquium. Lisboa (President). Main conference (free topi) and two workshops: (I) African and Creole Languages, (II) Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Lexicon - Interfaces.
1993 Fifth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Lisbon.
1997 Seventh Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Palmela, Portugal.
1997-1999 Eléments Minimaux de la Variation Linguistique, EHESS, CNRS, Paris.
2003 Second Lisbon Meeting on Language acquisition with special reference to Romance Languages, Lisbon.
2008 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Lisboa, Portugal.
Research projects
1978-1980 Portuguese as first and second language - National Institute of Scientific Research (INIC), CLUL, Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon.
1986-1987 Linguistics and Informatics, CLUL Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon.
1987-1991 EUROTRA, Automatic Translation Project, European Community.
1988-1993 Syntaxe Comparée – examen de quelques sous-systèmes dans les langues européennes. GDR 120, CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France, as ‘foreign associate member’.
1990-1991 S3 – Systems, Software and Services S.A. – S.I.P. – Interface System in Portuguese, as ‘linguistics advisor’ in collaboration with the Laboratory of Electronic Engineering.
1993-1996 European Portuguese in a perspective of Comparative Grammar – National Institute of Scientific and Technologic Research, JNICT – PCSH/C/LIN/528/93.
1997-1999 Inversion in Romance Languages, Amsterdam-Paris.
1994-1998 Centre de Syntaxe Formelle et de Poétique Comparée URA (Unité de Recherche Associée) 1720, University of Paris VIII and CNRS of Paris, France, as “correspondante étrangère”.
1996-1998 Semantic Representation and Inference – Tense and Discursive Relations.
JNICT, National Institute of Scientific and Technologic Research – PCSH/C/LIN/936/95.
1997-2001 Eléments minimaux de la Variation Linguistique – syntaxe comparée
(micro)paramétrique. JNICT (National Institute of Scientific and Technological Research) and CNRS of Paris. In collaboration with Hans Obenauer and Jean-Yves Pollock. Directors: Hans Obenauer (France) and Manuela Ambar (Portugal).
1998-2003 Les asymmetries, leur forme et leur traitement par les systèmes de performancee, director : Anne-Maire Di Sciullo, UQAM (Université du Québec, à Montréal), ‘Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada’- as foreign associate member.
1999-2002 Português Europeu e Português Brasileiro: unidade e diversidade na passagem do milénio (PEPB2000).
2000- SynCom (Syntax Companion), directed by Henk van Riemsdijk and Martin Everaert, Holland – Case: “Infinitives in Romance”.
2004-2008 Asymétries d'interfaces et traitement cognitif , director: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM, ‘Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada’, as ‘colaborateur externe’.
2001- Gramática do Português – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, CLUL.
2001- Erasmus Program with Trieste – coordinators: Giuseppi Longobardi (Italy), Manuela Ambar (Portugal).
2008- Interface Asymmetry Project –Natural language interface asymmetries research - Les asymétries d'interface des langues naturelles. Director Anna-Maria Di-Sciullo. UQAM et ‘Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada’, as ‘colaborateur externe’.
Honorary Memberships
1991-1992 President of the Glow Society
1996 Canadian Linguistic Association – Association Canadienne de Linguistique.
Publications
1976 (with Maria Antónia Mota) Curso Intensivo de Língua Portuguesa, CLCP, U. Lisbon.
1980 (with Maria Helena Mateus and Maria Antónia Mota) “Adéquation des modèles théoriques à l’enseignement du portugais-langue étrangère”. In Encrages, Paris, pp. 66-73.
1983 (with Manuela Vasconcelos). “O lugar da gramática no ensino de uma língua”. In Actas do congresso sobre a situação actual da língua portuguesa no mundo, Instituto de Cultura Portuguesa, vol.II, Lisboa, 1988, pp. 266-279.
1984
“Gramática - algumas reflexões”. In Palavras, Lisboa, pp. 19-27.
“Gouvernement et inversion dans les interrogatives qu- en portugais”. In Recherches Linguistiques 16. Jean Claude Anscombre (ed.), Paris, 1987, pp. 5-51.
1985
- “Sobre a estrutura dos constituintes interrogativos e inversão”. In Actas do 1.ºEncontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisboa: APL (pp. 247-267).
1986
- (with Ximena Lois and Hans Obenauer). “Move Infl and Sentential Arguments”, in GLOW Newsletter, Tilburg, Holanda.
(with Ximena Lois and Hans Obenauer) “Move Infl and Sentential Arguments”. Ms., Universidade de Paris VIII, Paris. Paper presented at the 1986 GLOW Colloquium, Girona, Spain, (pp. 17).
1987
- “Auxiliary Inversion and the Barrierhood of IP”. Paper presented at Going Romance 2, University of Utrecht, Holland, (pp. 30).
- “Flutuação do quantificador e subida da flexão”, in Actas do 3º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisboa: APL, (pp.17-38).
- “The order of NP_subject_Auxiliary_Past Participle in Wh-questions and the barrierhood of IP”. In Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Linguistic Society of Morocco, Rabat: Rabat University, (pp. 17-30).
- “L-marking and verb raising”. French version: « Le L-marquage et la montée du verbe ». Presented at Table Ronde Linguistique Comparée et Théorie du Liage, Paris, (pp. 1-22).
1988
- Para uma Sintaxe da Inversão Sujeito Verbo em Português. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Lisbon, pp. 802. (printed by Colibri, Lisboa, 1992).
- 1988 “Licensing Tense and Agr, Verb raising and the barrierhood of IP”, ms. Universidade de Lisboa
1989
- “Sobre a posição do sujeito - movimento do verbo e estrutura da frase”. In Actas do 5º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisboa: APL, pp. 369-399.
- (with Frank van Eyden and Palmira Marrafa ) “Mood, Modal verbs and Periphrastic Constructions”, in EUROTRA Reference Manual 6.0., Valentini & K. Sroup eds., Luxembourg.
1990
- “Weak verbs, thematic identification and the that-t effect”, in Fourth Symposium on Romance Languages and Linguistics “Going Romance 1990”, Universidade de Utrecht, Holanda.
1991
- (with José António Meireles) “Free topic”, in GLOW Newsletter 27, Tilburg, Holanda.
- “Weak verbs, thematic identification and the that-t effect”. Presented at Going Romance, Ms. U Lisbon, pp. 14.
1992
- “Temps et structure de la phrase en portugais”. In Obenauer, H.-G. & A. Zribi Hertz (eds.) Structure de la Phrase et Théorie du Liage, Sciences du Langage, Paris : PUV, pp. 29-49.
- “Functional Categories and Control”. Presented at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada, pp. 20.
1993
- “Functional Categories, Selection, Control and Checking Theory”, in Second Workshop on the Syntax of Central Romance Languages - Abstracts. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
- (with Marie Thérèse. Vinet) “Functional Categories and Control in Portuguese and Haitian Creole”, in Tercer Coloquio de Gramatica Generativa/Third Colloquium on Generative Grammar - Resúmens/Abstracts, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Espanha.
- “A COMP feature and some of its effects”, in Seventh Symposium on Romance Languages and Linguistics “Going Romance 1993”, University of Utrecht, Holanda.
1994
- “Have-PP and the tense of Past Participle”, in Langues et Grammaire I, resumés, University of Paris 8.
- (with Marie Thérèse Vinet) “Verbal Selection and Control in Portuguese and in Haitian Creole”. Ms. University of Lisbon and University of Sherbrooke, Canada, pp. 20.
- “Aux-to-COMP and lexical restrictions on verb movement”. In Cinque, G., J.Koster, J.-Y. Pollock, L. Rizzi & R. Zanuttinni (eds.) Paths Towards Universal Grammar - Studies in honour of Richard S. Kayne, Washington: Georgetown University Press. pp. 1-23.
1995
Have-PP and the Tense of Past Participle”. Presented at Langues et Grammaire I, Paris, pp. 29.
1996
- “Infinitives vs. Participles”. In LSRL XXVI (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages) - abstracts. University of Mexico, City of Mexico..
- (with Antonieta Costa e Zlatka Valtcheva-Timenova). “Para uma sintaxe comparada das estruturas de complementação em Português e Búlgaro”. Presented at XII Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Universidade do Minho, pp. 12.
- The Syntax of Focus - a unified approach”. Presented at International Workshop on Focus 1996, Paris, pp. 97.
1997
- “Towards a Minimalist Syntax of Tense”. Presented at Langues et Grammaire 3, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, pp. 39.
- “Towards a Minimalist Syntax of Tense”, in Langues et Grammaire 3 resumés, Universidade de Paris VIII.
- “Towards a definition of CP - evidence from TopicFocusP and EvaluativeP”, Going Romance abstracts, University of Groningen, Holland.
1998
- Sintaxe I – uma proposta de programa e desenvolvimento. Report for Associate Professor. University of Lisbon, pp. 141.
- “Inflected Infinitives Revisited – Genericity and Single Event”. Canadian Journal of Linguistics - Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, Montreal, Canada, pp. 5-36.
- (with Jean-Yves Pollock) “Topique et Commentaire dans quelques constructions à inversion du sujet en français et en portugais”. Ms. University of Lisbon and UPR 9075, CNRS, Lyon. pp. 17.
- “Word Order Effects of a Split CP Hypothesis”. In Romance Inversion. University of Amsterdam.
- (with Hans Obenauer, Iris Pereira, Judit Tapazdi and Rita Veloso) “From wh questions to wh exclamatives: The internal structure of Wh Phrases and the left periphery. Evidence from Portuguese, French and Hungarian”. Article posted at Chomsky Celebration, Web, pp. 23.
1999
- “Infinitives vs. Participles”. In Esthela Trevino e José Lema (eds.) Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam-USA: John Benjamins, pp. 1-20.
- “Aspects of the Syntax of Focus in Portuguese”. In Laurie Tuller and Georges Rebuschi (eds.) The Grammar of Focus, Amsterdam-USA: John Benjamins, pp. 23-53.
- (with Rita Veloso) “On the nature of wh phrases - extraction, wh-in-situ and word order Evidence From Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum”, Going Romance, abstracts, University of Leiden, Holland.
2000
- “Infinitives vs. Participles”. In João Costa (ed.) Portuguese Syntax – New Comparative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-20 (reprinted).
- “Wh-questions and wh-exclamatives unifying mirror effects”, Going Romance abstracts, University of Utrecht, Holland.
- “How do wh-questions and wh-exclamatives correlate? In Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, abstracts, University of Rome III, Rome, Italy.
2001
- (with Rita Veloso) “On the nature of Wh-phrases – word order and Wh-in-situ”. In Y. Hulst, J. Rooryck & J. Schroten (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999 (pp.1-37). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-37.
- (with Mary Kato, Carlos Mioto and Rita Veloso) “Padrões de interrogativas-Q no Português Europeu e no Português Brasileiro: uma análise inter e intra-lingüística”. In Maria Elias Soares (ed.) II Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN, Boletim da Associação Portuguesa de Lingüística vol. 26 – Número Especial I, Fortaleza, pp. 400-404.
- “Inversion in wh-structures and the status of wh-phrases”,” Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, abstracts, University of Trieste, Italy.
- “Wh-Asymmetries”, in Asymmetry, Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada.
- “Word order, wh-licensing and the left periphery – toward a definition of discourse oriented”. GLOW in Asia 2002 Abstracts, University of Taiwan.
2002
- (with Jean-Yves Pollock) “Topic vs. Comment in some Subject Inversion Sentences in French and Portuguese”. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 1.1., Lisbon, pp. 119-138.
- “Wh-questions and Wh-exclamatives – unifying mirror effects”. In Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen & Paola Monachesi (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000, Amsterdam/USA: John Benjamins. pp. 15-40.
2003
- “Wh-Asymmetries”. In Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (ed.) Asymmetry in Grammar. Amsterdam /USA: John Benjamins, pp. 209-250.
2004
- (with M. Gonzaga & E. Negrão) “Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP – Evidence from a comparative study on sempre”. In Going Romance 2002. Amsterdam /USA: John Benjamins, pp. 1-16.
2005
- “Clefts and Tense Asymmetries”. In A.-M. Di Sciullo (ed.), UG and External Systems. Amsterdam/USA: John Benjamins, pp. 95-129.
- Inflected Infinitives in Romance - Tense Domains and Phases, Agree and conditions on Merge and Move. Article for Henk Riemsdijk e Martin Everaert (eds.) SynCom, pp. 126.
- “V-to-C, tense domains and conditions on Merge and Move”. Glow in Asia V Abstracts. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Deli, India.
2006
- Gramática comparada – Tópicos de Sintaxe. Agregação, University of Lisbon, pp. 213.
- Sintaxe comparada e discurso. Micro ou macro-variação: movimento do verbo, remnant IP e periferia esquerda. Public lecture, Agregação. Universidade de Lisboa, pp. 23.
2007
- “Verb Movement and Tense. EPP and t-completeness”. In C. Picchi & Alan Pona (Eds.), Proceedings of the “XXXII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Firenze: Edizione dell’ Orso, pp.1-20.
2008
- “On some special adverbs, word order and CP. Variation vs. micro-variation”. Canadian Journal of Linguistics – Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, Canada: 53 (2/3): 143-179
2009
- “Jakubowicz’s DCM, the left periphery and the acquisition of Portuguese wh-questions by Portuguese-Brazilian kids”. Hommage à Celia Jakubowicz. University of Paris 8, pp. 7.
- “Left Periphery and Variation – BP vs. EP”. In 7th GLOW in Asia Abstracts, University of Hyderabad, India.
- (with E. Negrão, R. Veloso and L. Graça) “Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases”. In (eds.) E. O. Aboh, E. van der Linden, J. Quer and P. Sleeman, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory – Selected papers from Going Romance. Amsterdam, USA: John Benjamins, pp. 1-24.
2010
- “Complementation, tense valuation and phases”. RALFe 2010 (Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle: Langage, Langues et Cognition, Abstracts: pp.10. Université de Paris 8, CNRS.
- “Word order, complementation and tense”. ISDA IEEE (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications): 1083-1088. Cairo, Egypt.
2011 (in press):
- (with Manuela Vasconcelos) « Conjuntivo: revisitando a análise de IHF».
Invited Lectures
1980
Society of Portuguese Language (Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa), Lisbon.
- Theme: “Linguistic Competence and Grammar.”
1981
Lectures at the RDP (Portuguese Radio Divulgation)
- Theme: “Portuguese: How do you speak, how do you read” (Português: como falas, como lês), Lisbon (five series).
1982
Departamento de Linguística da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
- Theme: “On parecer (seem) in Portuguese“ (“Sobre o verbo parecer em Português”).
1983, June
Université de Paris 7, Jussieu, France
- Theme : “Syntaxe du portugais - le phénomène d´ inversion”. (invited by Nicolas Ruwet and Jacqueline Guéron).
1985
Université de Paris 7, Jussieu, France
- “Le paramètre du sujet nul et le phénomène d´inversion” (invited by Nicolas Ruwet e Richard Kayne).
1992, October
UQAM (Université du Québec à Montreal), Canada.
- Theme: “Functional Categories and Control (invited by Anne-Marie Di Sciullo).
1993, February
Université de Paris 8, France.
- Theme: “Temps, Structure de la Phrase et le Programme Minimaliste” (invited by the CNRS research group, GDR 120, Paris).
1994, June
University of Vienna and Institute of Language Sciences of the University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Theme: “On Portuguese Clause Structure”.
- Theme: “Tense and Control in finites and non-finites”.
- Theme: “Inflected Infinitives and Tense effects”.
- Theme: “Lexical Restrictions on Verb Movement”.
(invited by Martin Prinzhorn).
1995, April
Université de Poitiers, France.
- Theme: “Portuguese Syntax and Universl Grammar” (invited by the Département d’Etudes Portugais et Italiens, lectures series).
1996, September
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
- Theme: “Verb Movement in Portuguese” (“Movimento do Verbo em Português”). (Invited by Gabriel Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
2002, September
University of Trieste, Italy.
- Theme: “Portuguese Syntax: EP and BP”
- Theme: “On the structure of the IP and CP systems”.
- Theme: “Clefts” (invited by G. Longobardi).
2005, June
Université de Paris 7, France
- Theme: “On finiteness” (lectures series).
Conference Talks
As keynote speaker
1987, April
First International Conference of the Linguistic Society of Morocco, University of Rabat Morocco.
- “The order of NP Subject-Auxiliary-Past Participle in Wh-questions and the Barrierhood of IP”. (Other keynote speakers: Joe Emonds, Jacqueline Guéron, Jean Yves Pollock, Gemma Rigau, invited by A. Fassi Fehri).
1987, October
Going Romance, University of Utrecht, Holland.
- Talk: “Auxiliary Inversion and the Barrierhood of IP”. (Other keynote speakers: Peter Coopmans, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin).
1988, June
Table Ronde Linguistique Comparée et Théorie du Liage, CNRS de Paris.
- Talk : “Le L-marquage et la montée du verbe“. (Other keynote speakers: Jan Koster, Pierre Pica, invited by Jacqueline Guéron).
1990, March
Binding and Sentence Structure. First International Colloquium GDR 120 – Comparative Syntax, CNRS, Paris.
- Talk: “Tense and Portuguese Sentence Structure”.
1991, November
Workshop on Romance Languages, University of Groningen, Holland.
- Talk: “Infl Structure and Control Theory”. (Other keynote speakers: Jean-Yves Pollock, Carmen Sorin, Gemma Rigau, invited by Reinneke Bok-Bennema and Brigitte Kampers Mahn).
1996, February
International Workshop on Focus, Universités de Paris 10 et Paris 3, Sorbonne.
- Talk: “Aspects of Focus in Portuguese”. (Invited by Jacqueline Guéron, U Paris 3, Sorbonne et par Georges Rebuschi U Paris 10).
1997, December
Going Romance 1997, Eleventh Conference on Romance Languages, University of Groningen, Holland.
- Talk: “Towards a definition of CP - evidence from TopicFocusP and EvaluativeP”.
2000, December
Minimal Elements of Linguistic Variation: Aspects of the wh-system in some Romance Languages, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
- Talk: “Wh-licensing – root-embedded asymmetries”.
2001, May
The Asymmetry Conference, Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada.
- Talk: “Wh-Asymmetries”. (Other keynote speakers: Richard Kayne, Margaret Speas, Caroll Tenny, Jean-Yves Pollock, invited by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo).
2002, June
The 2nd Conference of the English Department University of Bucharest, Linguistics, Romania.
- Talk: “Clefts and Focus”. (Other invited speakers: Jacqueline Guéron, Yves Hulst, Carmen Sorin).
2002, October
Language, Brain and Computation, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.
- Talk: “Clefts and tense asymmetries”. (invited by Anna-Maria di Sciullo and G. Cinque)
2002, October
Linguistic Variation in the Left Periphery. University of Konstanz, Germany.
- “Clefts and the Left Periphery”. (Other invited speakers: Hans Obenauer, Jean-Yves Pollock, Cecília Poletto, invited by Josef Bayer).
2002, December
Sentence architecture – CP: the fine structure of the domain and the relations CP-IP. École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
- Talk: “Structuring the left periphery – from wh-phrases to adverbs”. (other invited speakers: Raffaela Zannuttini, Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock, Nicola Munaro).
2003, October
Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Québec, Canada.
- Talk: “On some special adverbs, word order and CP”. (other Keynote speakers: Richard Kayne (University of New York), Edwin Williams (Princeton University), Juan Uriagareka (University of Maryland).
2005, January
USP (University of São Paulo), Brasil
- Talk: “V-to-C - Tense and macro variation” (other invited speaker Angelika Kratzer).
2005, January
Evelin 2005, Second South American Summer School in Formal Linguistics (main closing session) - Conferência de encerramento da II Escola de Verão de Linguística Formal da América do Sul, Unicamp and MIT, University of Campinas, Brasil.
- Talk: “Tense and Sentence Structure II”. (invited by Charlotte Galves (Unicamp) e David Pesetsky (MIT)).
2007, May-June
The 9th Conference of the English Department University of Bucharest - Linguistics, Romania.
- Talk: “Tense domains, phases and variation” (other keynote speakers, Norbert Corver – U Utrecht, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin CNRS-Paris7, Frans van Eemeren - U Amsterdam, Giuliana Giusti– Ca' Foscari U, Venice, Jacqueline Guéron Paris 3, Johan Rooryck – Leiden U).
2007, November
La structure des types de phrases TUL (Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques, CNRS, Paris.
- Talk: Wh-phrases and clause type – root vs. embedded and the left periphery.
2008, November
La structure fine des types de phrases TUL (Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques, CNRS, Paris.
- Talk: “Clause type, left periphery and complementizers”.
Selected talks
1980, April Acquisition d’une Langue Etrangère - Perspectives de Recherche, Université de Paris VIII, Vincennes, France.
Talk: “Adéquation des Modèles Théoriques à l’enseignement du portugais-langue étrangère” (with Maria Helena Mateus e Maria Antónia Mota).
1983, June Congresso sobre a Situação Actual da Língua Portuguesa no Mundo, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Talk: “O lugar da gramática no ensino de uma língua”, (with Manuela Vasconcelos).
1985, October 1º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Talk: “Sobre a estrutura dos constituintes interrogativos - governo e inversão”.
1986, April 9th GLOW Colloquium 1986, University of Girona, Spain
Talk: “Move Infl and sentential arguments” (with Ximena Lois and Hans Obenauer).
1986, October 2º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
Talk: “Auxiliares, Inversão e IP”.
1987, October 3º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa.
Talk: “Flutuação do quantificador e subida da flexão”.
1989, June Workshop de Gramática Generativa, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Óbidos.
Talk: “Wh-extraction, verb movement and ECP”.
1989, October 5º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
Talk: “Sobre a posição do sujeito - movimento do verbo e estrutura da frase”.
1990, March Fourth Going Romance Conference on Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Utrecht, Holland.
Talk: “Weak verbs, thematic identification and the that-t effect”, Selected Abstract.
1990, May “Congresso da Associação de Linguística e Filologia da América Latina (ALFAL) São Paulo, Brasil.
Talk: “Categorias funcionais e estrutura da frase”. Selected abstract.
1993, March Third Colloquium on generative Grammar, Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Talk: “Functional Heads and Control in Portuguese and Haitian creole” (with Marie-Thérèse Vinet, University of Sherbrooke, Canada).
1993, May Second Workshop on the Syntax of Central Romance Languages, University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Talk: “Functional categories, Selection, Control and Checking Theory”.
1993,December Seventh Going Romance Conference on Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Utrecht, Holland.
Talk: “A COMP feature and some of its effects”.
1994, January Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America and of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Boston, USA.
Talk: “Verbal selection, functional categories and control in Haitian Creole” (with Marie-Thérèse Vinet, University of Sherbrooke).
1994, June Langues et grammaire I, Université de Paris 8, France.
Talk: “Have-PP and the Tense of Past Participle”.
1996, March LSRL96, (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages). University Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, City of Mexico, Mexico.
Talk: “Infinitives vs. Participles”.
1996, May Colloque Grammaire et Variation”, 64 Congrès de l’AFCAS, Université de McGill, Canada.
Talk: “Inflected Infinitives Revisited - genericity vs. single event”.
1996, October Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Braga, Portugal.
Talk: “Estruturas de Complementação em Português vs. Búlgaro”, (with Antonieta Costa e Zlatka Valtcheva-Timenova).
1997, April Seventh Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of Oviedo, Spain.
Talk: “Focus and Tense” (with Rita Veloso and Iris Pereira)
1997, June Langues et Grammaire 3, Université de Paris VIII, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France.
Talk : « Towards a Minimalist Syntax of Tense”.
1997, September Eléments minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole de Hautes Etudes de Paris.
Talk : “Tense, Wh and Focus” (with Rita Veloso and Iris Pereira), invited.
1997, October 20º Aniversário do Ensino do Português nas Universidades da Hungria, University of Budapest.
Talk : “Focus and Movement in Portuguese vs. Hungarian”, invited by Giampaolo Salvi (invited).
1998, May Romance Inversion, University of Amsterdam, Holland.
Talk: “Word Order Effects of a Split CP Hypothesis” (invited)
1998, September Eléments minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole de Hautes Etudes de Paris.
Talk: “On the internal structure of Portuguese wh-phrases and left periphery. Evidence from Portuguese, French and Hungarian” (with Hans Obenauer, Rita Veloso and Iris Pereira), (invited).
1999, September Eléments minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole de Hautes Etudes de Paris.
“On the nature of wh phrases – extraction, wh-in-situ and word order”, (with Rita Veloso). (invited)
1999, December Going Romance University of Leiden, Holland.
Talk: “On the nature of wh phrases – extraction, wh-in-situ and word order. Evidence from Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum” (with Rita Veloso).
2000, March XXVI Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università Degli Studi di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
Talk: “How do wh-exclamatives and in situ wh-questions correlate?”
2000, September Português Europeu e Português Brasileiro - Unidade e Diversidade na Passagem do Milénio, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
Talk: “Factores de co-variação em estruturas qu- em PE e PB”, (with Rita Veloso).
2000, December Going Romance 2000, University of Utrecht, Holland.
Talk: “Wh-questions and wh-exclamatives – unifying mirror effects”.
2001, February XXVII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
Talk: “Inversion in wh-structures and the status of wh-phrases”.
2001, March Colóquio da ABRALIN- PE, PB, Fortaleza, Brasil.
Talk: “Padrões de interrogativas-Q no Português Europeu e no Português Brasileiro: análise inter-linguística” (with Rita Veloso).
2002, January GLOW in Asia 2002, Taiwan
Talk: «Word order, wh-licensing and the left periphery – toward a definition of discourse oriented» . Selected paper.
2002, September 3º Colóquio Português Europeu e Português Brasileiro Unidade e Diversidade na Passagem do Milénio. FL, University of Lisbon.
Talk: «Sobre o operador sempre: interacções entre tempo, quantificação e estrutura frásica em PE e o PB» (with Esmeralda Negrão and Manuela Gonzaga).
2002, November Going Romance 2002, University of Groningen, Holland.
Talk: “Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP - Evidence from a comparative study on sempre.” (with Esmeralda Negrão and Manuela Gonzaga).
2004, October Journées d’études sur le portugais Université de Paris VIII, France.
Talk : “V-to-C in BP and EP” (invited).
2005, Outubro 5Th GLOW in Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Deli, India
Talk: “V-to-C, Tense domains and conditions on Merge and Move”.
2006, Março Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 32. University of Florence, Italy.
Talk: “Verb movement and Tense – EPP and t-completeness”
2007, Março Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 33, University of Bologna, Italy.
Talk: “Clause structure, Tense valuation and Phases” (with Rita Veloso).
2007, December Going Romance, University of Leiden, Holland
Talk: “Tense domains in BP and EP – vP, CP and phases” (with E. Negrão, R. Veloso and L. Graça)
2009, January Journée scientifique en hommage à Celia Jakubowicz – théorie syntaxique et acquisition (a)typique du langage. Univ. Paris 8.
Poster: “Jakubowicz’s DCM, the left periphery and the acquisition of Portuguese wh-questions by Portuguese-Brazilian kids”.
2009, February Glow in Asia VII, University of Hyderabad, India.
Talk: “Left Periphery and variation - BP vs. EP”.
2010, October RALFe 2010 - Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle: Langage, Langues et Cognition, Université de Paris 8, CNRS Paris.
Talk: “Complementation, tense valuation and phases”
2010, December International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding IDSS’10. Under the framework of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Apllications, ISDA’10. University of Cairo, Egypt.
Talk: “Word order, complementation and tense”