Visit of prof. Cristina Schmitt to the Institute of Language Studies of the University of Campinas, from January, 6 to July, 5, 2014

• Grant number: 13/13274-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: January 06, 2014
• End date: July 05, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves
• Grantee: Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves
• Visiting researcher: Cristina Schmitt
• Visiting researcher institution: Michigan State University (MSU), United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/06078-9 - Portuguese in time and space: linguistic contact, grammars in competition and parametric change, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project seeks funds to invite Prof. Cristina Schmitt, from Michigan State University, to visit the Institute of Language Studies of the University of Campinas, from January 6 to July 5, 2014. Cristina Schmitt has been working for many years in acquisition and syntax-semantics properties of noun phrases from a comparative point of view. Her visit is closely tied to the thematic project: Portuguese in time and space: linguistic contact, grammars in competition e parametric change, headed by Charlotte Galves, and includes the following research, teaching and synergistic activities: (i) she will collaborate in the investigation of the history of noun phrase in Portuguese using the Tycho Brahe Corpus. The results of the investigation of this ill-studied corner in Portuguese diachronic syntax will be included in a volume organized by Professor Charlotte Galves to be submitted to Oxford University Press and will serve as pilot data to a large NSF grant to be submitted between July 2014 and January 2015. (ii) within the teaching activities, she will teach a graduate course on the syntax-semantics of noun phrases from a comparative perspective. (iii) she will actively help advise both PhD and post-Doc projects linked to the thematic project. (AU)