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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (2000). Post doctorate at University of Southern California (UCLA). Currently is an adjunct professor at the Linguistics Department of University of Sao Paulo. Main areas of interest are generative syntax, French semiotics, philosophy of language and mind, and the relation between language and thought. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Recent work, Ferreira (2006, 1012), Bailey (2004), has shown that the mental representations of verbal arguments lingers in working memory even after corrections (in the case of fillers) or reanalysis (garden-path sentences). This works proposes, thus, a eye-tracking experiment to investigate the relation between memory priming and information structure, in accordance with the Good-Enough…
Gerund morpheme can occur in many clause types in Brazilian Portuguese: gerund clauses can occur in an argument or adjunction position; when they are of argumental character, they can be either internal or external arguments; when they are adjuncts, the "height" of adjunction varies - the adjunction site can be a nominal phrase or a predicate. They therefore seem to be different kinds of …
The project will deal with the prosody of sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) expressing genericity. The literature on the subject is extensive, and we are basing the project mainly on Krifka et. al. (1995), Chierchia (1998), Carlson (1972), and specifically for BP on various papers by Müller and Schmitt & Munn (1999). We will work on definite generic DPs, determined indefinite DPs, ba…
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There seems to be a wide variety of clauses formed with a verb in its gerund form. Some occur in argumental position, others as adjuncts and still others independently; when in argumental position, they can be subjects or complements. Their internal properties are also quite varied. However, contrary to prima facie impression, it seems to be possible that some complement gerund clauses ca…
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