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Team
The research team is supervised by Augusto Soares da Silva and
is composed of the following members: José João Dias Almeida,
Alberto Manuel Simões, Ana Margarida Abrantes and also Ana
Margarida Nunes, Marlene Danaia Duarte and José Luiz de Lucca
who were awarded a research grant.
Augusto Soares da Silva
Augusto Soares da Silva is associate professor of Linguistics at
the Faculty of Philosophy of the Portuguese Catholic University,
in Braga. He obtained his Ph.D in Portuguese Linguistics in 1997
with a thesis about the cognitive perspective in lexical
semantics, under the supervision of Dirk Geeraerts (University
of Leuven). His mains research interests include cognitive
semantics, lexical semantics, lexicology and cognitive grammar.
His
publications deal with
issues like polysemy, verb semantics, categorization and
prototypes, semantic change, lexical variation, metaphor and
metonymy, causation, causative constructions, grammaticalization
and inflected infinitive. He is the author of A Semântica de
Deixar: uma Contribuição para a Abordagem Cognitiva em Semântica
Lexical [The Semantics of the Verb Deixar: Towards a Cognitive
Approach in Lexical Semantics] (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,
1999) and the editor of two books about Cognitive Linguistics.
E-mail: assilva@braga.ucp.pt
Curriculum
José João Dias Almeida
José João Dias Almeida is assistant professor at the Information
Technology Department of the University of Minho. He is the
supervisor of the Natura
Project for Natural Language Processing, with particular
emphasis on the Portuguese language.
E-mail: jj@di.uminho.pt
Curriculum
Alberto Manuel Simões
Alberto Manuel Simões is a graduate student in Mathematics and
Computation Sciences. He obtained his Master’s degree in 2004
with a thesis about Parallel Corpora word alignment and
applications from the School of Engineering of the University of
Minho. He is now a Ph.D student in the same institution in the
field of automatic translation based on examples.
E-mail: ambs@di.uminho.pt
Curriculum
Ana Margarida Abrantes
Ana Margarida Abrantes is assistant in the field of German
Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University in
Viseu. She holds a graduate degree in English and German from
the University of Aveiro (1997) and a Master’s degree in
Portuguese Linguistics – Cognitive Perspective from the Faculty
of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Braga (2001). She is
now doing her Ph.D in the field of Cognitive Semiotics. She
published the book É a Guerra. O Uso do Eufemismo na Imprensa –
Um Estudo Contrastivo em Linguística Cognitiva (Passagem
Editores, Viseu, 2002).
E-mail:ana.margarida.abrantes@gmail.com
margarida.abrantes@crb.ucp.pt
Ana Margarida Nunes
Ana Margarida Nunes holds a graduate degree in Portuguese
Language Teaching from the University of Minho (2000) and a
Master’s degree in Portuguese Studies (Portuguese Linguistics)
from the University of Aveiro (2003). She was awarded a research
grant for the project from 1st March 2004 to 28th February 2005.
She is a member of the Research Line in Language Sciences of the
University of Aveiro.
E-mail: anambnunes@net.sapo.pt
Marlene Danaia Duarte
Marlene Danaia Duarte holds a graduate degree in Applied Foreign
Languages (English-Portuguese) from Lumière Lyon II University
(1999) and an M.Phil. degree in English Studies from Liverpool
John Moores University (2002). She was awarded a research grant
for the project from 1st March 2005 to 31st March 2006.
E-mail: mduarte@facfil.ucp.pt
José Luiz de Lucca
José Luiz de Lucca holds a graduate degree in Economic Studies
from the Pontific Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
(1984) and obtained his PhD in Linguistics from the University
of São Paulo (2001), with a thesis about minidictionaries for
the Portuguese language. He was awarded a 10-month research
grant for the project.
E-mail: delucca@usp.br |
