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Patrícia Amaral

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLinguistic Variation and MorphologySpanish Linguistics and Language StudiesLanguage and cultural evolutionNatural Language Processing Techniques

Publications

16

Citations

9

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2013

Research summary
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Patrícia Amaral studies how the meanings and grammar of words and phrases work and change over time, especially in Romance languages such as Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. Her work examines the boundaries between sentence structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), and context-based interpretation (pragmatics), and includes topics like semantic change and language variation. Some recent work also applies computational methods, such as word embeddings, to analyze word meaning.

Semantics and semantic changeSyntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaceRomance and Portuguese linguisticsLanguage variation and changeModality and grammatical constructions

Publication activity has been fairly steady but modest over the recent period, averaging around 1.6 publications per year over the last five years after a peak in 2021.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
1718192020: 1 publication202021: 5 publications5212022: 2 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 1 publication252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
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  • Languages×2
  • Oxford University Press eBooks×2
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)×2
  • Digital Scholarship in the Humanities×1
  • Linguistics×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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