
Helena Topa Valentim is an assistant professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and a researcher at the Linguistics Research Centre of the NOVA University Lisbon. She has a PhD in Linguistics, specializing in Semantics, and conducts research in this scientific area and in Portuguese Linguistics as well as, more recently, in the Didactics of the Mother Tongue.