Nesta mesa, propomos uma discussão sobre a produção de pesquisadores-ativistas que rompem a lógica de silenciamentos e apagamentos das vozes do Centro-Norte e, mais especificamente, das vozes indígenas.
Piagetian approaches to development highlight the role of the child as a little scientist, actively exploring her world in such a way as to optimise learning. Vygostky’s little apprentice, on the other hand, learns language in social interactions with knowledgable others. I suggest that any theory of language learning must combine these two approaches to […]
Participantes: Bruno Rochette; Julia Burghini; Fábio Fortes. Moderador: Alessandro Jocelito Beccari A mesa-redonda, na área de Historiografia Linguística, em perspectiva interdisciplinar com os Estudos Clássicos, traz um panorama dos estudos sobre a história da gramática greco-latina. Nesse aspecto, congrega três especialistas, sendo dois convidados internacionais, que investigam o tema. O objetivo é difundir e renovar […]
Construction grammarians, who propose that all of our knowledge of language can be described as stored form-function pairings, are sometimes believed to engage in little more than ‘butterfly collecting’. The perception is that they love idiosyncratic constructions so much that most of their energy goes towards finding unusual patterns and describing their unique syntactic or […]
Linguistic variation can roughly be defined as ‘different ways of saying the same thing’. This concept encompasses a very wide range of phenomena and sources of variation, including alternations and competing choices on the level of sounds, morphosyntax, lexicon and discourse, all of which can be conditioned by geographic, social, situational and individual factors. Traditionally, […]
The term ‘distributive numeral’ was introduced into formal linguistics by Gil (1982, 1995) to describe numeral noun phrases indicating that a plurality of individuals or events is distributed with respect to another plurality. On the relational approach advocated by Gill (see also Choe 1987, Zimmermann 2002 a.o.), distributivity is understood as a relation between two […]
While the world’s languages differ in many respects, they share certain commonalities: these can provide crucial insight on our shared cognition and how it impacts language structure. In this project, we explore the learnability sources and consequences of one of the most striking commonalities across languages: the way word frequencies are distributed. Across languages, words […]
The vast majority of the world’s population speaks at least two languages on a daily basis. This highlights the need for a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive, linguistic, and neurological characteristics of bilingualism. The talk is ideally divided in three sections. The first part will focus on the introduction to the notion of bilingual competence […]
The hypothesis is proposed that there are universal levels of linguistic structure that are directly derivative of the biological and social infrastructure for communication. Unlike universals of the Greenbergian and Chomskyan type, which typically involve controversial analytical constructs such as ‘subject’ or ‘maximal projection’, the universal layer of linguistic structure targeted here is defined by […]
It is common for languages to express multiple meanings with the same word, a phenomenon known as “colexification”. For instance, the meanings FINGER and TOE colexify in the word ‘dit’ in Catalan (the word ‘dit’ expresses both meanings), while they do not colexify in English. Colexification has been suggested to follow universal constraints. In particular, […]