Ambar, Manuela

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”