Fátima Oliveira
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fátima Oliveira plays a role.
Articles
2025 Thermal and metaphorical meanings: Analysing temperature adjectives in European Portuguese The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Temperature adjectives serve as linguistic vehicles to convey sensory perceptions of physical temperature and metaphorical extensions that resonate across various spheres of communication. Languages vary widely in their vocabulary related to temperature, how they classify these terms, and where… read more
2018 Chapter 15. Path scales: Directed-motion verbs, prepositions and telicity in European Portuguese Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 335–356 | Chapter
We put forward a proposal based on the notion of path scale (e.g., Kennedy & Levin 2008) to account for the semantics of inherently directed motion verbs ir (‘go’) and vir (‘come’) combined with prepositional phrases (PPs) with the thematic role of Goal, headed by the prepositions para… read more
2000 Some Issues about the Portuguese Modals dever and poder Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages, Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 167–184 | Article
Abstract. This paper is about some Portuguese modals, mainly poder 'may/can' and dever 'must/should'. After a short description of these modals, I concentrate on their relation to negation. The main objective is to establish a scale for them, based on the three-layered scalar square proposed by van… read more