Publications
Monographs
(Both these books are being written and under contract)
O’Neill (in preparation) The Oxford History of Spanish Morphology. Oxford: OUP.
O’Neill P. & Dubert. F. (in preparation). The Oxford History of Portuguese and Galician Morphology. Oxford:OUP.
Edited Volumes
Bermingham, N. & P. O’Neill (2022) Language and Education in the Lusophone world. Special linguistics edition of journal Modern Languages Open. Liverpool: LUP
Prado, N., G. Massini-Cagliari & P. O’Neill (organisers) (2020) Variação, mudança e preconceito linguístico: fenômenos da língua portuguesa atual e antiga [variation, change and linguistic prejudice: phenomena from present-day and old Portuguese] Edição especial de Falange Miúda.
Fabregas, A., I. Gil & P. O’Neill. (2005) Cuadernos de Lingüística XII, Madrid. Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset.
Chapters in Books
O’Neill, P. (in press), The development of morphomic structures. In Rainer, R & P. Arkadiev (eds) Handbook of historical morphology. Oxford: OUP.
O’Neill, P (in press), Ibero-Romance. In Heinz M., Hinzelin M, & Filipponio, L. Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages. De Gruyter series.
O’Neill, P (2025), Teaching language variation in Brazilian Portuguese: the use of online streaming platforms. In Campos Sardo, G. & D. Reiman: Portugiesisch als Weltsprache für das 21. Jahrhundert – linguistische und kulturelle Voraussetzungen, (fremd-)sprachenpolitische Implikationen und fachdidaktische Perspektiven (203-239). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
O’Neill, P. (2024), Morphologization and the boundary between morphology and phonology in the Romance languages. In Gardani F. & M. Loporcaro et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.
O’Neill, P. (2023), Morfología flexiva del verbo. In Dworkin, S., G. Clavería & A. Octavio Toledo (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Routeledge.
O’Neill, P. & Massini-Cagliari, G. (2023), Theorising linguistic prejudice in Brazil: Pierre Bourdieu, the symbolic power of language and the principle of error correction. In G. Massini-Cagliari et al. (eds). Understanding Linguistic Prejudice. Springer.
O’Neill, P. (2022), Morphologically ‘autonomous’ structures in the Romance languages. In Gardani F., M. Loporcaro et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.
Finbow, T & O’Neill, P. (2022), Koinéization and language contact: the social causes of morphological change in and with Portuguese. In Ledgeway, A, J.C. Smith & N. Vincent. Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony: a View from Romance (pp 381-411). Oxford: OUP
O’Neill, P. & Wheeler, M (2022), Sandhi phenomena. In Ledgeway, A & M. Maiden (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (209-233). Cambridge: CUP
Esher, L & O’Neill, P. (2022), Autonomy of Morphology. In Ledgeway, A & M. Maiden (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (346-370). Cambridge: CUP
O´Neill, P. (2018). Velar Allomorphy in Ibero-Romance: roots, endings and clashes of morphomes. In Bouzouita, M., I. Sitaridou & E. Pato, (eds.), Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morphosyntax (pp 13-47). [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
O’Neill, P. (2016). Lexicalism, the Principle of Morphology-free Syntax and the Principle of Syntax-free Morphology. In Hippisley A. & G. Stump (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (pp 237-272). Cambridge: CUP.
O'Neill, P. (2014). Similar and differing patterns of allomorphy in the Spanish and Portuguese verbs. In Amaral, P. & A. M. Carvalho, (eds), Portuguese/Spanish interfaces (pp. 175-202). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
O'Neill, P. (2013). Morphomes and morphosyntactic/semantic features. In Cruschina, S., M. Maiden, & J.C. Smith, (eds.), Boundaries of Pure Morphology (pp 221-247). Oxford: OUP.
O'Neill, P. (2011). The notion of the Morphome. In Goldbach, M., M. Maiden, & J.C. Smith, (eds.), Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. (pp 70-95). Oxford: OUP.
O'Neill, P. (2011). El morfoma en el asturiano: diacronía y sincronía [The morphome in Asturian: diachrony and synchrony]. In Homenaxe a Xosé Lluís García Arías (Vol. 1, pp 319-348). Oviedo: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
Maiden, M., & O'Neill, P. (2010). Morphomic Defectiveness. In M. Baerman, G. Corbett, & D. Brown, (eds.) Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us (pp. 103-124). London: OUP/British Academy.
Maiden, M., Swearingen, A., & O'Neill, P. (2010). Imperative Morphology in Diachrony. In M. Dufresne, F. Dupuis, & E. Vocaj, (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007 (pp 99-108). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Pamies, A., Amorós, M. C., & O'Neill, P. (2007). Esquemas entonativos declarativos en el habla de Almería [Intonational patterns in declarative clauses in the speech of Almería]. In J. Dorta, (ed.), La prosodía en el ámbito lingüístico románico (pp. 299-311). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: La página ediciones.
Articles in Journals
O’Neill, P. & Ugartemendía C. (under review). Plural Imperatives in Brazilian Portuguese.
O’Neill, P. & Ugartemendía, C. (in press). Morphological variation in Brazilian imperatives: The importance of ecological factors and the relationship with the written standard. Submitted to Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.
O’Neill, P (2025) Defective verbs in Portuguese: a morphomic approach. Cognitive Linguistics 36(2).
O’Neill, P (2024) Monoglossic ideologies and the two-way relationship between linguistics and language learning/teaching: Idiosyncratic variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for usage-based teaching. Ampersand: 14
O’Neill, P (2024) /s/ aspiration in Andalusian Spanish: word internal and across word boundaries: an experimental study of 4 cities. Variación 1(2): 44-69
O’Neill, P. (2022). Language and education in Brazil: a historical and critical sociolinguistic perspective. Modern Languages Open 1(14): 1-21.
O’Neill, P. (2022). Língua e educação no Brasil: problemas estruturais linguísticos e suas origens históricas. Modern Languages Open 1(14): 1-21.
Note: Portuguese translation of article above - edition was bilingual.
Bermingham, N & O’Neill, P. Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries. Modern Languages Open 1(13):1-13.
Bermingham, N & O’Neill, P. Considerações ideológicas e teóricas para a educação pós-colonial nos países lusófonos. Modern Languages Open 1(13):1-13.
Note: Portuguese translation of article above - edition was bilingual.
O’Neill, P (2020). Racial and Linguistic prejudice in Brazil: comparisons, contrasts and anthropophagic solutions. Falange Miúda 5(2). [Edição Especial; Variação, mudança e preconceito linguístico: fenômenos da língua portuguesa atual e antiga]
O’Neill, P (2020). O preconceito linguístico e o preconceito racial: comparações, contrastes e soluções antropofágicas. Falange Miúda 5(2).
Note: Portuguese translation of article above.
O’Neill, P & Massini-Cagliari, G. (2019). Linguistic Prejudice and Discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond: Suggestions and Recommendations. Journal of Language and Discrimination 3(1): 32-62.
O’Neill, P (2018) Near Synonymy in Morphological Structures: Why Catalans can abolish constitutions but Portuguese and Spanish speakers can’t. Languages in Contrast 18(1): 6-34.
O´Neill, P (2015). The Origin and Spread of Velar Allomorphy in the Spanish Verb. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92(5):489-518.
O'Neill, P (2014). The morphome in constructive and abstractive models of morphology. Morphology, 24: 25-70.
Pato, E & O'Neill, P (2013). Los gerundios analógicos en la Historia del español (e iberorromance) [Analogical gerunds in the history of Spanish (and Ibero-Romance)]. Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 61(1): 1-27
O´Neill, P. (2011). Alternancias vocálicas en el presente de los verbos en -ir. Un análisis desde la Morfología Autónoma [Vocalic alternations in the present of -ir verbs. An autonomous morphological analysis]. Revista de la Historia de la Lengua Española, 6:87-129.
O´Neill, P. (2011). New perspectives on the effects of yod in Ibero-Romance. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89(5):665-697.
O'Neill, P. (2011). The Evolution of 'el pretérito y tiempos afines' in Ibero-Romance. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88:851-878.
O'Neill, P. (2010). Una explicación teórica de la defectividad verbal en la lengua española [A theoretical explanation of verbal defectiveness in Spanish]. Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 302:265-289.
O'Neill, P. (2010). Variación y cambio en las consonantes oclusivas del español de Andalucía [Variation and change in stop consonants in the Spanish of Andalusia]. Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 19:11-41.
O'Neill, P. (2009). Los verbos defectivos en la lengua española: estudio sincrónico y diacrónico descriptivo basado en datos de corpus [Defective verbos in Spanish: a synchronic and diachronic study based on corpus data]. Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 300:255-287.
O'Neill, P. (2009). El pretérito y tiempos averaos nel Dominiu Llingüísticu Ástur: formes diferentes pero non dixebraes [The preterite and related tenses in Asturian linguistic domain]. Lletres Asturianes, 100:27-41.
O'Neill, P. (2009). The effect of s-aspiration on occlusives in Andalusian Spanish. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. 12:73-86.
Pamies, A., Amorós, M. C., & O'Neill, P. (2008). Esquemas entonativos de frase declarativa en el habla de Jaén [Intonational patterns in declarative clauses in the speech of Jaen]. Experimental Prosody. Special Issue (2) of Language Design. 191-202.
O'Neill, P. (2005). Final /s/ in Western Andalusian Spanish: the phonetic neutralization of a phonological contrast. Language Design, 7:151-166.
Conference Proceedings
O'Neill, P. (2008). La fonación murmurada y la preaspiración en andaluz [Breathy voice and pre-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish]. In A. Pamies, & E. Melguizo, New trends in experimental phonetics: selected papers from the IVth International Conference on Experimental Phonetics: (Granada, 11-14 feb. 2008) (pp. 193-200). Granda: Granada Lingvistica.
Goldbach, M., Hinzelin, M. O., Maiden, M., O’Neill, P., Smith, J. C., & Swearingen, A., (2007) À la recherche de l’arbitraire dans la morphologie diachronique et comparative du verbe roman: syncrétisme et supplétisme verbaux. In M. Iliescu, H. Siller-Runggaldier, & P. Danler (Ed.), XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes (Innsbruck, 3-8 septembre 2007) (pp. 311-320). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
O'Neill, P. (2006). La resolución del elemento sibilante en el andaluz [The outcome of /s/ in Andalusian Spanish]. V Congreso Andaluz de Lingüística General. Homenaje al Molina Redondo. 1, (pp. 513-523). Granda: Granada Lingvistica.