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Margarita Dimitrova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies at the University of Porto and a researcher at the Centre for Linguistics at the University of Porto. She has received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Lisbon in 2020 and her reserch interests focus on the area of syntax, namely on comparative syntax and the syntax-discourse interface.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Margarita Dimitrova

Citation names

  • Dimitrova, Margarita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
181A-397D-BC1E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5443-5497

Email addresses

  • mdimitrova@letras.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Via Panorâmica, s/n , 4150-564, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Bulgarian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020
Concluded
 Linguistics (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"On the Syntax of Yes-No Questions in Bulgarian and Portuguese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2011 - 2013
Concluded
 Linguistics (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2014 - Current Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014 - 2018 On the syntax of Yes-No Questions in Bulgarian and Portuguese
SFRH/BD/99302/2013
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Dimitrova, Margarita. "Bulgarian yes-no questions - clitic li and polarity items". 2019.
    10.3726/978-3-653-07147-4
Conference paper
  1. Dimitrova, Margarita. "Negation in Bulgarian yes-no questions: polarity items and negative concord". Paper presented in 22nd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL 22), 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Diana Amaral; Ambar Manuela; Dimitrova, Margarita. "Clause Structure and Questions Typology – licensing cues, variation and interpretation". Paper presented in 33rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG), Universidad de Alcalá, 2024.
Journal article
  1. Margarita Dimitrova; Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade. "On the properties of N-words and the licensing of negative concord in Bulgarian Yes-No Questions". Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/bel2023-3-d.
    10.53656/bel2023-3-d
  2. Margarita Dimitrova. "Evaluation and bias in negative yes-no questions". Linguistic Research 39 3 (2022): 405-429. https://doi.org/10.17250/KHISLI.39.3.202212.001.
    10.17250/KHISLI.39.3.202212.001
  3. Margarita Dimitrova; Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon. "On Bulgarian Dali-Questions and the Relation to the Subjunctive Mood". Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/bel2022-5-3md.
    10.53656/bel2022-5-3md
  4. Ambar Manuela; Dimitrova, Margarita; Diana Amaral. "A crosslinguistic puzzle for Subjunctive". Rhema 4 (2017): 23-37.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/11 Subjunctive questions and the case of Bulgarian dali 56th Linguistics Colloquium: Translation, Multilinguality and Cognition
2017/03 A crosslinguistic puzzle for Subjunctive Formal Approaches to Russian Linguistics (FARL 2017)
Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
2016/06/16 Negation in yes-no questions Clul-LingMe – Linguistic Meeting for Young Researchers
Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (Portugal)
2015/12 Bulgarian yes-no questions - clitic li and polarity items Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 11
University of Potsdam (Germany)
2015/05 The particle li in the constructions of expletive negation in Bulgarian The Pragmatics of grammar: Negation and Polarity
University of Caen (France)
2015/04 Negation in Bulgarian yes-no questions: polarity items and negative concord 22nd International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
Aristotle University (Greece)
2014/11/21 A partícula li nas interrogativas wh- do búlgaro IX Fórum de Partilha Linguística
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2014/11 Ele e to – pronomes expletivos em português europeu e búlgaro Segundas Jornadas de Linguística Eslava
University of Lisbon (Portugal)
2013/06/28 A partícula li: interrogação e foco nas perguntas sim-não do Búlgaro Jornadas de Linguística Eslava 1º Encontro Nacional
University of Lisbon (Portugal)