Education
Master of Science in Germanic Philology, State University Lisbon, 1974. Master of Science in Romance Philology, State University Lisbon, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy in Lexical Semantics, University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1993.
Master of Science in Germanic Philology, State University Lisbon, 1974. Master of Science in Romance Philology, State University Lisbon, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy in Lexical Semantics, University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1993.
Researcher dialectology Center Linguistica, Lisbon, 1979—1982. Lecturer, portuguese language & linguistics University Utrecht, 1982—1993, assistant professor, 1993—2005, senior researcher, since 2005. Visiting professor, portuguese linguistics University Gent, Belgium, since 2009.
Member, Portuguese Committee Atlas Linguarum Europae, Utrecht, 1979—1986. Member, Portuguese Committees Atlas Linguistique Roman University Grenoble, since 1992. Correspondent Yearbook European Sociolinguistics, Tuebingen, Germany.