Dialectology and Diachrony
Academic degree
PhD
Professional situation
Full Professor
Research Areas
Syntax, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Variation
Affiliation
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
Start date End date Description
2025 Present

Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

1992 2025

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

1990 1992

Bolseira de Investigação - Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

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Selected publications

Li, X., Lobo, M., & Teixeira, J. (2025). Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures. Isogloss. Open Journal Of Romance Linguistics, 11(1), 1-27. http://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.482
Lira, R., Lobo, M., & Corrêa, L. (2025). Animacy and schooling in the production of null objects and accusative clitics in the acquisition of two varieties of Portuguese. In Null objects from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective (P. Barbosa, & C. Flores (Eds.), pp. 141-170). John Benjamins. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.19.06lir
Leal, A., Lobo, M., & Silvano, P. (2024). Como-gerund clauses in European Portuguese. Isogloss. Open Journal Of Romance Linguistics, 10(3), 1-29. http://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.329
Correia, L., Lobo, M., & Flores, C. (2024). Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: Results from a study with monolingual and Portuguese-German bilingual children. Language Acquisition, 32(4), 453-483. http://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2346586
Lobo, M. (2024). A gradient typology of gerund clauses: revisiting the internal and external syntax of Portuguese gerund clauses. Probus, 36(2), 283-317. http://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2024-2013
Vitorino, I., & Lobo, M. (2021). Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese children. In L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance (L. Avram, A. Sevcenco, & V. Tomescu (Eds.), pp. 13-38). John Benjamins. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.65.01lob
Lobo, M., Santos, A. L., Soares, C., & Vaz, S. (2019). Effects of syntactic structure on the comprehension of clefts. Glossa: A Journal Of General Linguistics, 4(1): 74. http://doi.org/doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.645
Fiéis, A., & Lobo, M. (2018). Word Order in Portuguese Gerund Clauses: comparing Old Portuguese and Dialectal Portuguese. Estudos De Lingüística Galega, 45-59. http://doi.org/10.15304/elg.ve1.3590
Lobo, M., & Martins, A. M. (2017). Subjects. In Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax (A. Dufter and E. Stark). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
Lobo, M., Santos, A. L., & Soares, C. (2016). Syntactic structure and information structure: the acquisition of Portuguese clefts and be-fragments. Language Acquisition, 23(2). http://doi.org/DOI:10.1080/10489223.2015.1067317

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