23 Publications
2023
Marching towards Contrast: The Case of ao passo que in Portuguese. Languages
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2022
Tracing semantic change with distributional methods. The contexts of algo
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2021
OUP accepted manuscript
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. | Journal Article
2019
Not a fact: A synchronic analysis of el hecho de and o facto de
Amaral, Patrícia and Delicado Cantero, Manuel
Probus, vol. 31, (no. 1), pp. 1-27, May 27, 2019. | Journal Article
 
Descriptive pronouns
Amaral, Patrícia
In Secondary Content. (pp. 58-86). Leiden: Brill. 2019. | Book Chapter
2018
Subcategorization and Change: A Diachronic Analysis of sin embargo (de que)
Amaral, Patrícia and Delicado Cantero, Manuel
In Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015. (pp. 31). Benjamins. 2018. | Book Chapter
 
Expressive meaning
Amaral, Patrícia
In Handbuch der Pragmatik. (pp. 325-333). Springer/Metzler. 2018. | Book Chapter
 
Current perspectives on Historical Linguistics
Amaral, Patricia
In The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics. (pp. 582-602). Cambridge University Press. 2018. | Book Chapter
2017
Modality, Presupposition and Discourse: The Meaning of European Portuguese afinal and Italian alla fine
Amaral, Patrícia and Del Prete, Fabio
In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12. (pp. 1-13). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2017. | Book Chapter
2016
On truth unpersistence: At the crossroads of epistemic modality and discourse
Amaral, Patrícia and Del Prete, Fabio
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, vol. 34, (no. 4), pp. 1135-1165, Nov 2016. | Journal Article
 
The Present Perfect borders: A study in language contact
Amaral, Patrícia
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol. 31, (no. 1), pp. 16-41, 2016. | Journal Article
 
When Something Becomes a Bit
Amaral, Patricia
Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics/Revue Internationale pour la Linguistique Historique/Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Linguistik, vol. 33, (no. 2), pp. 151-186, 2016. | Journal Article
2015
A cross-linguistic investigation of presupposition projection and accommodation
Amaral, Patricia A
In Experimental approaches to presuppositions. (pp. 157-172). Dordrecht: Springer. 2015. | Book Chapter
2014
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces : Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
Amaral, Patrícia and Carvalho, Ana M
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2014. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. | Book
 
On Truth Persistence. A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to sempre
Amaral, Patricia and Del Prete, Fabio
In Variation within and across Romance Languages. Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. (pp. 135-154). John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2014. | Book Chapter
2013
Children’s knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost
Amaral, Patricia
In Beyond Words (vol. 15). (pp. 91-108). Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER. 2013. | Book Chapter
 
The pragmatics of number: The evaluative properties of vivir+V[Gerund]
Amaral, Patrícia
Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 51, pp. 105-121, May 2013. | Journal Article
2012
Nominal and verbal plurality in the diachrony of the Portuguese Present Perfect
Amaral, P⋅Amaral, Patrícia⋅Howe, Chad and Howe, C
In Verbal Plurality and Distributivity (vol. 546). (pp. 25-54). Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER. 2012. | Book Chapter
2011
Learning cues to category membership: Patterns in children’s acquisition of hedges
Casillas, Marisa and Amaral, Patricia
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, vol. 37, (no. 1), pp. 33-45, Jun 25, 2011. | Journal Article
 
Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: The Case of Barranquenho
Clements, J. C⋅Amaral, Patrícia and Luís, Ana R
In The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics. (pp. 395-417). Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. 2011. | Book Chapter
2010
Approximating the limit: the interaction between quasi 'almost' and some temporal connectives in Italian
Amaral, Patrícia and Del Prete, Fabio
Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 33, (no. 2), pp. 51-115, Apr 2010. | Journal Article
 
Entailment, Assertion, and Textual Coherence: The Case of Almost and Barely
Amaral, Patrícia
Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, vol. 48, (no. 3), pp. 525-545, 2010. | Journal Article
2007
Review of "The Logic of Conventional Implicatures" by Chris Potts
Amaral, Patricia⋅Roberts, Craige and Smith, E. A
Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 30, (no. 6), pp. Dec, 2007. | Journal Article