bachelor's at História from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1988), master's at Linguistica from Pennsylvania State University (1994) and doctorate at Linguistica from MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (1999). Has experience in Linguistics, focusing on Theory of Linguistic Analysis, acting on the following subjects: karitiana, tupi, concordancia, linguistica and arikem. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Amazon basin is one of the most linguistically diverse regions on earth, yet evidence from across the region suggests that the maintenance of this diversity overtime has been accompanied by extensive interaction among speakers of different languages. This project explores these processes of language contact and change through the lens of Upper Rio Negro region, focusing on the Nadahup…
The purpose of this project is to examine the hypothesis that there are two branches (Eastern and Western) in the Tupian family, taking into account adverbial clauses data from languages of the putative Western and Eastern branches. Rodrigues (2007) shows evidence of phonological and lexical reconstruction for this hypothesis. Nevertheless, there is no syntactic evidence discussed in the …
This project aims to carry out a comparative study of the subordination functions by the reflections of the *-ap and *-at morphemes (in Proto-Tupi) in the daughter languages of Proto-Tupi, such as infinitization, participle (Moore 1994: 156), nominalization , denial, among others. These protomorphemes are described only as "circumstance nominalizer" and "agent nominalizer", respectively, …
The project aims to study the linguistic phenomenon of ideophones, stemming from the concept first developed by Luciana Storto (2012), which takes in consideration the Karitiana language; The concept developed by Gabas Jr. and Auwera (2004), which analyzes ideophones in the Karo language, will be utilized as well. Based on the analysis and tests on ideophones found by Storto in Karitiana,…
Theses of organization of the Tupi linguistic family based on the subordinating and nominalizing morphology present in the languages of its various branches, with a focus on the Western branch (Arikém, Tuparí, Mondé, Ramaráma and Puruborá families) (Rodrigues 1986). The hypotheses to be tested are the arboreal models of the Western branch of Rodrigues (2002), assembled based on lexical co…
The main goal of this research is to provide a syntactic derivation for copular constructions in Karitiana language (Arikém branch, Tupi stock). Storto (2010) suggests that the copula selects a nominalized small clause as a complement from where it extracts its subject. Rocha (2016) argues that the small clauses in Karitiana copular constructions are adverbial, suggesting an adjunct statu…
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This research project to be developed abroad intends to propose an innovative methodology to work with the description and analysis of complex sentences in indigenous languages, which integrates recent advances that typologists and formalists have attained (van Gijn, Haude & Muysken 2011, van Gijn, Hammond, Matic, van Putten & Galucio 2014 e Amaral, Maia, Nevins & Roeper 2018). The propos…
The goal of this project is to analyze object relative clauses in Karitiana, a Tupian language of the Arikém family. Relative clauses in this language are internally-headed and object relatives specifically show an inverse voice morpheme, which also marks some wh- constructions in the language. Additionally, object relative clauses have two possible word orders: SOV and OSV. This project …
The current project investigates differences among subordinate clauses (adverbial, relative, and complement). In the first section, the emphasis will be on demonstrating the differences between complement and relative clauses, since we have already discovered the structural properties of adverbial clauses which permit us to distinguish adverbials from complements and relatives. In the se…
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