A defining characteristic of Homo sapiens as a species is its ability to invent and culturally transmit technologies that have transformed life on Earth. Written language, one such human cultural invention, is far too recent for dedicated cognitive processing routines as well as neural infrastructure to have evolved in its service. How, then, do we […]

Although the disparity between sociolinguistic knowledge and popular beliefs about language diversity is well documented, little proactive attention has been given to changing public misconceptions. How can programs about linguistic diversity be presented when the prevailing public language ideology is largely fueled by the principle of linguistic subordination? This presentation offers a theoretical and methodological […]

I would like to explore the idea that focus interpretation in the “low” (vP-edgish) region of the clause (in e.g., various types of “inversion”,) is driven by the syntactic computational system and not vice versa.

Os pesquisadores debaterão suas experiências de vitalização de línguas originárias, norteados por uma concepção ampla e, fundamentalmente, cultural de “língua”, que vai muito além da estrutura.

Writing a ‘Manifesto for Good Living/ Buen Vivir’ Boaventura de Sousa Santos writes from the perspective of the ragged and loosely affiliated people engaged in social movements worldwide, not least through gatherings like the World Social Forum. In imagining a generalized subject position for this work, he states: A few of us speak colonial languages; […]

Clause chains are a special type of complex sentence, found in hundreds of languages outside Western Europe, in which clauses are dependent but not embedded, and dozens of clauses can be combined into a single morphologically-indicated syntactic unit. Clause chains in some languages contain a further special feature: switch-reference marking, in which speakers must announce […]

Este estudio se inscribe dentro de un proyecto de investigació, que trata de analizar y explicar la actividad atenuadora en diferentes normas regionales del español y del portugués con el fin de realizar con posterioridad diferentes estudios contrastivos intralingüísticos e interlingüísticos. Más concretamente, en esta exposición intentaremos explicar algunos de los principios teóricos y metodológicos […]

The central question in the study of verbal meaning are what the basic component’s of a verb’s meaning are and how they compose together into more complex meanings in ways that make predictions about possible and impossible verbs. Event structural theories have been arguably the dominant approach to the study of verb meaning over the […]

Typological questions have played an important role in language scholarship since at least the beginning of disciplinary linguistics in the early 19th century. The first use of the term “typology” in a specifically linguistic sense, however, would seem to have come at the end of that century, in a posthumous 1894 paper by the German […]

No campo dos Estudos da Linguagem, em nosso país, existem algumas pesquisas (MAGALHÃES, 2004; MARTINS, 2004; MELO, 2019; LANTHAM, 2006, FERREIRA, 2015, MUNIZ, 2016, NASCIMENTO, 2019, 2020; e SOUZA, 2020) entre outras/os) que mobilizam as categorias linguagem, identidade e raça de maneira imbricada. No campo da Linguística Aplicada, temos tido cada vez mais uma virada […]