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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
I work within the framework of formal semantics My recent research focuses on the cross-linguistic variation in the expression of temporal reference, bringing into the debate the contribution of Brazilian indigenous languages. I have published on bare nominals, on the mass count distinction, on pluractionality and on tense, aspect and mood from a cross-linguistic perspective and with focus on Brazilian Portuguese and on Karitiana, a Brazilian indigenous language. I have also edited volumes on the Karitiana language and culture and on the teaching of Brazilian Portuguese in basic education. I received my PhD from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and my Masters degree from the University of Paraná (Brazil). I have been a visitor at the University of Massachusetts and at the University of Paris 7. I am the founder of the Workshop on Formal Linguistics, now on its 15th edition. I am a lecturer at the University of São Paulo since 1998 and became a Full professor in 2022. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project has at is background the debate on the expression of the notion of time by the grammar of human languages, its possible universals and its parameters of variation. Within this background we focus on the semantics of complex sentences with embedded temporal adverbial clauses. We make use of a methodology which applies the tools of formal semantics to an in depth analysis of th…
This Project aims at investigating the semantics of tense and aspect in Karitiana (Amazonian, Tupi) under a perspective of convergence among the fields of Formal Semantics, Typology and Descriptive Linguistics. The Project focusses on the semantics of tense and aspect in the Karitiana language. It has at its background two current relevant questions to Formal Linguistics and to the typolo…
The project focusses on the cross-linguistic variation on the semantics of unmarked tenses. Unmarked tenses are tenses in which speech time and reference time (the moment talked about) coincide. These are the so-called "presents". The project will be developed against the background of formal semantics and linguistic typology. Its goal is to achive a formal analysis of unmarked tenses whi…
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This post-doctoral project focus on comparative constructions in two languages: Portuguese and Karitiana (an indigenous language spoken in Rondonia-Brazil). The project was inspired by Beck et al. (2009), a paper on comparative constructions in 14 languages that proposes to group them according to two semantic parameters. The data collected up to now show that neither Portuguese nor Karit…
Karitiana is a language of the Ariquém family. It is a singular language in many aspects, but the focus of this research is the modal marks in this language. Lyons (1997:452) defines modality as "'opinion or attitude' of the speaker". It means that modality is the position that the speaker has about the sentence he says if he considers it true, hypothetical, an order, etc. This position o…
This research focuses on the degree modification in Karitiana on the verbal and adjectival domain.
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This project focusses on simultaneous and habitual/generic present readings in languages of opposite temporal orientations: languages whose temporal systems contrast future to non-future; and languages whose temporal systems contrast past to non-past. We specifically investigate two languages: Brazilian Portugese (Romance) and Karitiana (Tupi). We assume a methodological approach which co…
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