Maria Antónia Coutinho is Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where she develops research in the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL). She was the chair of CLUNL’s board of directors from 2010 to 2017, and holds a PhD in Linguistics. She has published in various national and international journals and is mainly interested in the theoretical and epistemological framework of socio-discursive interactionism, writing didactics, and style issues, from a linguistic point of view.

Ana Guilherme is a PhD student in Historical Linguistics at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. She is developing research on Portuguese historical morphology, and her academic interests also focus on historical pragmatics and politeness. She is a member of the research group Grammar and Text at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Joana Teixeira is a PhD student in Linguistics at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, and holds a PhD grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Her research interests include (generative) second language acquisition, its interface with second language teaching, and syntax, with a particular focus on the syntax-discourse interface. She is a member of the Formal and Experimental Linguistics research group at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Beatriz Carvalho is an MA student in Linguistics at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal and was a research grant holder at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her main research area is historical linguistics, folk etymology, and morphology.