POSITIONS
Research assistant (2026 –, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Project: Experimental Studies on Discourse Structure (PI: Laia Mayol)
Experimental design and analysis; dissemination
Doctoral researcher (2020 – 2025, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Projects: The Question Under Discussion and its Linguistic Effects and Experimental Studies on Discourse Structure (PI: Laia Mayol)
Research, dissemination, teaching, administrative work
EDUCATION
PhD, Linguistics (2020 – 2025, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
FPI predoctoral fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Dissertation: You're offended, I'm offended: A face-based analysis of confrontational conversation
Supervision: Prof. Laia Mayol, Prof. Martina Wiltschko
MSc, Linguistics (2016 – 2018, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Dissertation: Action and information: relevance as the unifying semantic component of the conditional
Supervision: Prof. Nik Gisborne, Prof. Rob Truswell
BA, Fine Art (2007 – 2011, National College of Art and Design, Ireland)
First Class Honours, Commended Thesis, and Student of the Year 2011 Award
VISITING/EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
Doctoral research stay (October – December 2023, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Supervision: Prof. Christine Howes
Guest student Spatial Concepts (multimedia) (2013 – 14, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany)
Professor: Candice Breitz
Guest student Virtual Realities (multimedia) (2012, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany)
Professor: Bjørn Melhus
Erasmus program Painting and Film & New Media (2010, Kunstakademie Münster, Germany)
Professor: Irene Hohenbüchler
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information [ESSLLI] (2023, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (2022, National University of Ireland, Galway)
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (2021, Utrecht University, Netherlands - Online)
European Generative Grammar school [EGG] (2021, Online)
PUBLICATIONS
Amido, S. (2026). How Aggressive are oh-Prefaced Responses? An Experimental Investigation. In: Hogeweg, L., Jalali, R., Sedlár, I., Schwarz, L. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15661. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-14339-6_1
Amido, S. (2025). You're offended, I'm offended: A face-based analysis of confrontational conversation. PhD thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [link]
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. [link]
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. & Buchczyk, S. (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]
PRESENTATIONS
Amido, S., Maraev, V. & Howes, C. (2026). Potential triggers do not always escalate: evidence from a pilot study. Ways of Speaking Badly: insults, slurs, and confrontational speech. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Amido, S. & Soubki, A. (2025). Annotation of face effects as a tool for valence analysis. EPITHETS & STAL Workshop 2025. University of Genoa, Genoa.
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. & Buchczyk, S. (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. & Buchczyk, S. (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. & Amido, S. (2022). Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy. 55th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Bucharest, Bucharest.
Amido, S. & Buchczyk, S. (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. & Buchczyk, S. (2022). Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy. RomTiN 9. University of Utrecht, Utrecht.
Amido, S. & Buchczyk, S. (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, 2025)
English Description and Analysis 2 (BA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(2021-22, 2023-24)
English Competence and Use 1 (BA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(2022-23)
Syntax (MA seminar), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(2021-22, 2022-23)
SERVICE
Co-organizer for the 3rd workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes [CHAMP 3] (2025, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Co-chair for the Logic and Language track at ESSLLI Student Session (2023, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Co-organizer for GLiF [Grup de Lingüística Formal] seminars (2021 - 2023, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Reviewer for Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
Reviewer for ESSLLI Student Session