This line of research integrates descriptive or theoretical studies in the areas of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics and phonology, or their interfaces, in an cross/intralinguistic and/or synchronic/diachronic perspective. The works should contribute to the advancement of linguistic description and documentation, different theories and conceptions of grammar, language acquisition and bilingualism, as well as linguistic data processing methodologies.
Researchers:
- Carlos Felipe Pinto
Research interests: (Micro)parametric variation and change; comparative syntax; L2 acquisition in a formal approach; word order and information structure; verb movement and V2 effect; syntactic cartography and left periphery; grammar and teaching.
- Edivalda Alves Araújo
Research interests: Description of the Portuguese language syntactic/morphosyntactic fenomena under the generative theory. Analysis of the Portuguese language syntactic/morphosyntactic fenomena confronting other languages. Analysis of the syntactic/morphosyntactic fenomena during language acquisition. Studies involving both theories, the generative and the information structure.
- João Paulo Lazzarini Cyrino
Research interests: Descriptive, typological and/or theoretical research encompassing the morphosyntax of the languages of the world (including Portuguese and its varieties), with particular interest in the relation between morphology and syntax, in redefining concepts such as words and grammatical categories as universals. Computational linguistics and quantitative methods for identifying relationships among morphemes and detecting behaviour patterns among languages, thus contributing with Linguistic Typology and empirical/stochastic approaches to grammar.
- Juliana Escalier Ludwig Gayer
Research interests: Phonological variation; Studies in Phonology and interfaces.
- Lílian Teixeira de Sousa
Research interests: Syntax of natural languages; compared syntax; prosody, description of natural languages; language documentation.
- Maria Cristina Vieira de Figueiredo Silva
Research interests: Description, analysis and explanation of Portuguese morphological and syntactical aspects in the Generative framework.
- Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino
Research interests: Generative syntax: (a) comparative syntax; (b) Brazilian Portuguese diachronic syntax.