Grammar & Resources

The group is centered on modeling linguistic knowledge, integrating interfaces between different areas of grammar and knowledge about how language is put to use. Joint work in formal phonology, lexicon, syntax and semantics allows building an integrated model of grammar, considering how it is represented in the human mind, as well as how it can be computationally modelled; work on L1 and L2 acquisition is at the core of this work. The integration of models of language representation and models of language use is achieved through the study of corpora.

The production of corpora and resources is justified by the goal of developing documentation and providing descriptions of contemporary European Portuguese, but also of understudied contact languages or varieties (Portuguese-based creoles, national varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Asia). The group also produces resources for the study of L1 and L2 acquisition in different settings. The group integrates CLARIN LP.

Research on L1 and L2 acquisition contributes to CLUL’s general purpose of effectively articulating fundamental and applied research, namely in the areas of Educational Linguistics and Clinical Linguistics.

General goals:

- To produce new resources for the study of Portuguese and Portuguese-based creoles;

- To pursue basic research on natural language modeling, integrating knowledge on interfaces between language modules;

- To continue the documentation and description of understudied creoles and new varieties of Portuguese that emerged in a context of language contact;

- To develop the study of language acquisition with an emphasis on language contact situations (see new international Heritage Language Consortium) and on the comparison between typical and atypical development;

- To explore the potential of comparative linguistics in the production of resources for translation and to promote connections with the industry in the area of translation.

 

Resources Type
A Lexicon of Child European Portuguese - CEPLEXicon Lexicon
A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset - NLI-PT Database
Acquisition of European Portuguese Databank - AcEP Database
Child-Adult Interaction Corpus - CAI Corpus
Child-Adult interaction European Portuguese Database
Consonantic Sequences Oral and Written Production Tasks - PORESC Tool
Controlled Portuguese - CLG Database
Corpora of PLE Corpus
Corpus Almeida - European Portuguese / French Corpus
Corpus Angolar Corpus
Corpus C-ORAL-ROM Corpus
Corpus CCF Corpus
Corpus CINTIL Corpus
Corpus Fadambo Corpus
Corpus Leiria (1991) Corpus
Corpus of Cape Verdean Portuguese Corpus
Corpus of Sri Lanka Portuguese Corpus
Corpus of the Diaries of the Portuguese Parliament annotated with PoS - PTPARL Corpus
Corpus PESTRA Corpus
Corpus Português Fundamental - Corpus PF Corpus
Corpus Principense Corpus
Corpus REDIP Corpus
Corpus Santome Corpus
Corpus SANTOS - European Portuguese Corpus
Crosslinguistic Child Phonology Project - Português Europeu - CLCP-PE Tool
Dados Orais de Cabo Verde - CV Words Database
Demo de Subespecificação e Desambiguação de Escopo Tool
Dictionary of Hindi-Portuguese-Hindi Database
Diu Indo-Portuguese Data Set Database
Learner Corpus of Portuguese L2 - COPLE2 Corpus
LT Corpus (Literary Corpus) - LT Corpus Corpus
Modality Lexicon - MODAL-LEX-PT Lexicon
Multifunctional Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Portuguese Lexicon
Named Entity Recognizer - CRPC-NER Tool
Nominal Multiword Lexical Units in European Portuguese Lexicon
NPChunks: Corpus of 1000 sentences annotated with PoS and nominal chunks - NPChunks Corpus
Online Corpus of Writing and Speech of Children in the Early Years of Schooling - EFFE-On Corpus
Online Dictionary Portuguese-Slovak/Slovak-Portuguese Database
Pereira&Freitas - EP Corpus
Person-Machine Interaction in Natural Language - INQUER Database
PhonoDis Corpus
Phonological Awareness Tasks for First Grade School Children - TCFC Tool
Portuguese Biographies - Bio-PT Database
Portuguese Corpus Annotated for Modality - MODAL Corpus
Portuguese Lexicon of Discourse Markers - LDM-PT Lexicon
Portuguese Technical Lexica - LEXTEC Lexicon
Portuguese Discourse Bank - CRPC-DB Corpus
Quotations database - CRPC-quotations Database
Ramalho – EP Corpus
Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese - CRPC Corpus
Santome Structure Dataset Database
Spoken Corpus Mozambique 1986-87 - SCM Corpus
Spoken Portuguese - Geographical and Social Varieties Corpus
Vocatives in European Portuguese Corpus
Word Combination in European Portuguese - LEX-MWE-PT Lexicon
WordNet.PT Lexicon
Capítulo de Livro
Móia, T. (2001). Telling Apart Temporal Locating Adverbials and Time-Denoting Expressions. In 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Workshop Proceedings: Temporal and Spatial Information (pp. 41-48). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hagemeijer, T., Gonçalves, R., & Afonso, B. (2018). Línguas e políticas linguísticas em São Tomé e Príncipe. In P. F. Pinto & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (Eds.), Línguas e políticas linguísticas em português (pp. 54-79). Lisboa: Lidel.
Móia, T. (2004). Sobre a Delimitação Temporal da Quantificação. In Actas do XIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Lisboa, 1, 2 e 3 de Outubro de 2003) (pp. 581-593). Lisboa: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
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Móia, T., & Viotti, E. (2005). Sobre a Semântica das Orações Gerundivas Adverbiais. In Actas do XX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Lisboa, 13-15 de Outubro de 2004) (pp. 715-729). Lisboa: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
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Móia, T. (2005). Algumas Áreas Problemáticas para a Normalização Linguística - Disparidades entre o Uso e os Instrumentos de Normalização Linguística. In Actas do XX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (Lisboa, 13-15 de Outubro de 2004) (pp. 109-125). Lisboa: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
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Móia, T. (2006). On Temporally Bounded Quantification over Eventualities. In Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 (C. Ebert & C. Endriss, eds. , pp. 225-238). ZAS Working Paper in Linguistics.
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Móia, T., Gonçalves, A., & Duarte, I. (2014). Marcação Explícita de Tópicos com a Locução Prepositiva 'quanto a' e Afins. In XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Selecionados 2013. Coimbra 2013 (pp. 381-393). Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
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Móia, T. (2020). Predicados Temporais e Gramaticalização em Português. In Zwischen Sprechen und Sprache / Entre Fala e Língua (B. Meisnitzer & E. Pustka, orgs., pp. 59-81). Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
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Móia, T. (2015). Variação e desvio em estruturas comparativas do português. In XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. Textos Selecionados (pp. 403-417). Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
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Móia, T. (2013). Portuguese Temporal Expressions with 'Haver' and Their Romance Counterparts: Semantic Interpretation and Grammaticalization. In Evolution in Romance Verbal Systems (E. Labeau & J. Bres, éds., pp. 285-301). Col. Sciences pour la Communication 108. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.
Móia, T. (2003). On Temporal Constructions Involving Measurement and Counting from Anchor Points - Semantic and Pragmatic Issues. In Meaning Through Language Contrast, Vol. 1 (K. M. Jaszczolt & K. Turner, eds. , pp. 45-59). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Rego, R., Won, M., Martins, B., Mendes, A., del Río, I., & Lejeune, P. (2019). O impacto da crise no discurso político dos parceiros sociais portugueses. In Grupos de interesse e crise económica em Portugal - Qual o papel e como atuam os grupos de interesse no sistema político português? (Marco Lisi, coord., pp. 153-178). Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.
Amaro, R., Chaves, R. P., Marrafa, P., & Mendes, S. (2006). Enriching Wordnets with New Relations and with Event and Argument Structures. In 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing – CICLing 2006 (pp. 28-40). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Bacelar do Nascimento, M. F., & Mendes, A. (1995). Glossário de gíria académica. In Guia do estudante universitário. Programa comunitário ORTELIUS.
Alexandre, N., & Oliveira, M. (2004). Caboverdiano e Português: cotejando estruturas focalizadas. In Português Falado na África Atlântica. .
Flores, C., Santos, A. L., Almeida, L., Jesus, A., & Marques, R. (2019). Portuguese as a Heritage Language in contact with German and French: A comparative study on the acquisition of verbal mood. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15. Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 30, Frankfurt (Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 36-52). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Santos, A. L. (2019). Heritage languages at school: Implications of linguistic research on bilingualism for heritage language teaching. In Romanische Sprachen in ihrer Vielfalt. Brückenschläge zwiscchen linguistischer Theoriebildung und Fremdsprachenunterricht (Gabriel, Christoph, Jonas Grünke & Sylvia Thiele (eds.) , pp. 211-232). Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag.
Rodrigues, C. (2013). Braga: o frágil equilíbrio entre preservação dialetal e standardização. In XIV Colóquio de Outono - Humanidades: Novos Paradigmas do Conhecimento e da Investigação (Macedo, A. G., Mendes Sousa, C. e V. Moura (eds.). Braga: Humus.
Agostinho, C., & Gavarró, A. (2020). The Acquisition of Implicit Control in European Portuguese. In New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective (pp. 219-238). Springer Netherlands. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_9
Agostinho, C., Santos, A. L., & Duarte, I. (2018). The acquisition of control in European Portuguese. In Complement clauses in Portuguese: Adult syntax and acquisition (pp. 261-294). John Benjamins Publishing Company. http://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.09ago
Zhou, C., Freitas, M. J., & Castelo, A. (2019). A aquisição das consoantes líquidas do português europeu em coda por aprendentes chineses. In De Oriente a Ocidente: estudos da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas (C. P. Alonso, V. Russo, R. Vecchi, C. A. André (Eds.), Vol. V, Estudos da AIL sobre Ciências da Linguagem (Língua, Linguística, Didática), pp. 87-117). Coimbra: Angelus Novus / AIL. Retrieved from https://lusitanistasail.press/index.php/ailpress/catalog/view/168/60/739-2
Castelo, A., Santos, R., & Freitas, M. J. (2016). O uso de vogais ortográficas por aprendentes de português como língua estrangeira: unidade na diversidade. In Língua Portuguesa: Unidade na diversidade (B. Hlibowicka-Węglarz, J. Wiśniewska, E. Jabłonka (Eds.), pp. 181-194). Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marie Curie-Skłodowskiej.
Castelo, A., Freitas, M. J., & Miguens, F. (2010). Níveis de escolaridade e a capacidade de segmentação de palavras: o efeito da extensão de palavras na identificação de segmentos. In Avaliação da Consciência Linguística: Aspetos fonológicos e sintáticos do Português (M. J. Freitas, A. Gonçalves, I. Duarte (Eds.), pp. 119-144). Lisboa: Colibri.
Matos, G. (2013). Elipse. In Gramática do Português (Raposo, E.; Nascimento, M.F.; Mota, M.A.; Segura, L.; Mendes, A. , Vol. vol. II, pp. 1761-1817). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Matos, G., & Raposo, E. B. P. (2013). Estruturas de coordenação. In Gramática do Português (Vol. vol. II, pp. 1761-1817). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Matos, G. (2012). Orações parentéticas de complemento nulo. In Nada na Linguagem lhe é estranho - Homenagem a Isabel Faria (Costa, A; Duarte, I. , pp. 323-337). Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
Matos, G. (2009). Appositive sentences and the structure(s) of coordination. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006 (Tork D.; Wetzels, L., pp. 159-174). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.303
Gonçalves, A., & Matos, G. (2009). Ellipsis and Reestructuring in European Portuguese. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2007 (Aboh, E; Linden, E.; Queer, J; Sleeman, P., pp. 109-129). John Benjamins. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.1
Cyrino, S., & Matos, G. (2006). Null Complement Anaphora in Romance: Deep or Surface Anaphora?. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004 (Doetjes, J; González, P., pp. 95-120). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.278