Education

PhD in Linguistics (2020 – Currently)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Supervised by Prof. Laia Mayol and Prof. Martina Wiltschko

 

Research stay at University of Gothenburg (October – December 2023)

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Supervised by Prof. Christine Howes

 

MSc Linguistics (2016 – 2018)

University of Edinburgh, UK

Dissertation: Action and information: relevance as the unifying semantic component of the conditional

 

BA in Fine Art (2007 – 2011)

National College of Art and Design, Ireland

Awarded First Class Honours, Commended Thesis, and Student of the Year 2011 Award




Summer schools


European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLLI

(2023) University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

(2022) National University of Ireland, Galway

(2021) [Online] Utrecht University, Netherlands


European Generative Grammar school, EGG

(2021) Online



Grants


Formación de Personal Investigador [Doctoral Investigation Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation] (2020) 



Publications

 

Amido, S., Maraev, V. & Howes, C. (2024). "No, you listen!" A pilot experiment into escalation devices in confrontational conversation. In Bernardi, R., Breitholtz, E. & Riccardi, G., eds. Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts.


Amido, S. & Buchczyk, S. (2023). Whether-exclamatives: a verum strategy. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 42(3), 549-576. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2023-2014


Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2022). Whether-exclamatives. In Mayn, A. and McHugh, D., eds. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session, 15-26. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.20367858


Amido, S. (2020). Goals and Beliefs. In Van Alem, A., De Sisto, M., Kerr, E., and Wall, J., eds. Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 41-50. [link]



Talks

Amido, S., Maraev, V. & Howes, C. (2024). "No, you listen!" A pilot experiment into escalation devices in confrontational conversation. (Poster presentation). SemDial 28. University of Trento, Rovereto.


Amido, S. & Soubki, A. (2024). Towards an annotation of face effects in dialogue. Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF) Seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.


Amido, S. (2023). Discourse markers as indicators of confrontation. Linguistics Research Seminars (Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science). University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg.

 

Amido, S. (2023). Discourse markers as indicators of confrontation. 14th Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation. Telavi.

 

Amido, S. (2023). Oh-prefaced disagreement: a marker of eristic dialogue. 56th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens.

 

Amido, S. (2023). Confrontational conversation: testing assumptions about cooperativity. Pragmatics International Congress. Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza).

 

Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2023). Whether-exclamatives and the division of labour in answers to questions. (Poster presentation). North East Linguistics Society 53. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen.

 

Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2022). Whether-exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese and Standard German. Going Romance 2022. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.

 

Amido, S. (2022). Confrontational conversation: testing assumptions about cooperativity. UR-Ling Workshop 2022. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.


Buchczyk, S. & S. Amido (2022). Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy. 55th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

 

Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2022). Whether-exclamatives. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2022 Student Session. National University of Ireland, Galway.

Springer Award for Best Talk at ESSLLI 2022 Student Session

 

Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2022). Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy. RomTiN 9. University of Utrecht, Utrecht.

Amido, S. & S. Buchczyk (2022). VERUM in inversion exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese. Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF) Seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Amido, S. (2020). Goals and Beliefs. (Poster presentation). ConSOLE 28. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.



Teaching 

 

Relying on hallucinations: the linguistics behind human-AI interactions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

One week course led by Prof. Martina Wiltschko for the Barcelona International Summer School

(2024) Teaching Assistant


English Description and Analysis 2 (BA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2023-24) Teaching Assistant

(2021-22) Teaching Assistant


English Competence and Use 1 (BA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2022-23) Teaching Assistant


Syntax (MA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2022-23) Teaching Assistant

(2021-22) Teaching Assistant



Service

 

(2023) Logic and Language co-chair for ESSLLI 2023

(2023) Reviewer for Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

(2022) Reviewer for ESSLLI 2022 Student Session

(2021 - 2023) GLiF seminar co-organiser (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)