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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
Ana Paula is a retired Senior Professor (MS5-2) at the Departamento de Linguística from the Universidade de São Paulo, a Visiting Professor (Titular-E) at the Departamento de Letras from the UFJF and has a Productivity scholarship from CNPq, level 2. She has a degree is Letras from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (1988), a Master's degree in Linguistics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1996) and a PhD in Linguistics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2004), with a period as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, under the supervision of Professor Joseph Aoun. She has been in four long term visits to the University of Calgary (Calgary - 2006-2006), the University College London (London - 2011-2012), the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (CAmpinas - 2017-2018) and the Universidade Feeral de Juiz de Fora (Juiz de Fora - 2023-2024). She has experience in Linguistics, working with formal grammar in the field of Generative Grammar, particularly in Distributd Morphology. She is interested in the interfaces Morphology has with Syntax, Phnology and Semantics and is working with argument structure, syncretism, as well as with the derivation of affixeless deverbal nouns, innovative participles, truncated forms, and adjectives used as adverbs. She has been one of the editors-in-chief of Editora da ABRALIN, since March, 2023. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The present request aims at obtaining finantial support for the organization of the Academic Visit of Professor Martha McGinnis, from the Departament of Linguistics at the University of Calgary, in canada to the Departament of Linguistics st USP, from the 11th to the 26th of August, 2007. (AU)
With this research project, I aim at investigating the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the deverbal and non-deverbal event nominalizations in Brazilian Portuguese. My intention is to decribe and analyse its formation process and its interpretation in this language. In doing so, I will, mainly, use two theoretical approaches to the architecture of the grammar: Principles and Param…
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This research project focuses on investigating the proposition that linguistic numeral systems are organized into bases, with a particular emphasis on the study of Brazilian Portuguese numeral system. Bases are commonly utilized in describing and analyzing linguistic numeral systems, and their identification typically involves a combination of mathematical, syntactic, semantic, and morpho…
This project aims to propose a feature-geometric approach for the morphosyntactic features that underlie devices of nominal classification of inanimate entities in Brazilian indigenous languages. To reach that aim, our proposal, based on the feature geometry elaborated by Harley and Ritter (2002) for pronouns, involves comparing and formally analysing secondary data from eight genetically…
Distributed Morphology (Halle; Marantz, 1993; DM) is a syntactic theory to the derivation of words and larger constituents that sets aside the Lexicon as a generative component and adopts a reformulation of the Principles and Parameters (Chomsky, 1981) Grammar Architecture. The theoretical model proposes the distribution of the morphological, phonological and semantic properties contained…
The study of nominalizations within the framework of Generative Grammar dates back to the publication of "Remarks on Nominalization" (Chomsky, 1970), which subsequently sparked various investigations on the behavior of this type of formation. However, the investigation of non-affixal deverbal nominalizations in Brazilian Portuguese is still a task to be completed. In particular, the theor…
Nominalizations encompassed in Brazilian Portuguese light verb constructions (LVCs) with the verb 'dar', such as 'dar uma olhada' (to have a look), often considered participial (Scher, 2004; Medeiros, 2008), stand out for their regularity - being even referred to as "nominalizations in -ada", although "their [suffix] realization can be -ada or -ida depending on the thematic vowel applied …
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This research internship project describes my proposal for working under the supervision of Professor Martina Wiltschko, at the Pompeu Fabra University, during the fall term of 2025. The main goal to be achieved in this research internship is to determine a set of morphosyntactic features that underlie devices of nominal classification of inanimate nouns in eight Brazilian indigenous lang…
The proposed research internship project aims to determine the morphosyntactic status of Brazilian Portuguese cardinal bases. Although it is generally recognized that numerals across languages may behave like traditional parts of speech such as nouns and adjectives, there is variation regarding (i) the composition of a numeral system in terms of the category of its members; (ii) in system…
Distributed Morphology (Halle; Marantz, 1993) is a syntactic model for the formation of words and larger constituents that distributes morphological, phonological and semantic properties contained in the Lexicon into three non-generative lists which store, respectively, the theoretical primitives - roots and morphosyntactic features -, the rules of correspondence between the syntactic out…
This internship program project is a crucial component of my current PhD research on the morphology shared by reflexive, anticausative, passive and other sort of constructions (Passive-Reflexive Syncretism). Many works have provided an empirical and theoretical insufficient account to the phenomenon by analysing the syncretic marks as functional categories. In my current research, through…
The present research project suggests the analysis of truncated forms such as "forasta", a synonym for "forasteiro", in Brazilian Portuguese (PB), or "cafeta", a synonym for "cafeteria", in Peninsular Spanish (EP), under the Distributed Morphology (MD) perspective, a model proposed in Halle & Marantz (1993), and its most recent developments, presented in Siddiqi (2009) and Embick (2010), …
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