Amália Mendes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amália Mendes is involved.
2023 Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches, Klumm, Matthias, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 67–91 | Article
Proposals such as continuity and causality-by-default relate the level of expectedness of a relation to its linguistic marking as an explicit or implicit relation. We investigate these two proposals with regard to the English transcripts of six TED Talks and their Lithuanian, Portuguese and… read more
2021 Chapter 8. The discourse markers well and so and their equivalents in the Portuguese and Turkish subparts of the TED-MDB corpus Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations, Lavid-López, Julia, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.), pp. 209–232 | Chapter
The present research describes how the PDTB style of discourse annotation has been applied to transcribed TED Talks in the TED-MDB corpus, which include multifunctional elements such as well and so. The occurrence of these two markers is analyzed in English in comparison to the way they are… read more
2006 Typologies of MultiWord Expressions Revisited: A Corpus-driven Approach Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki (eds.), pp. 227–244 | Article
Noun-adjective collocations in L2 Portuguese: Exploring the effects of proficiency and native language in a large-scale learner corpus International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
In this study, we investigated the development of phraseological knowledge in Portuguese second language learners, focusing on noun–adjective combinations through the lenses of phrasal frequency, association strength, and accuracy. We analysed essays from 693 learners across five proficiency… read more