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SUZI LIMA University of Toronto Department of Linguistics Site: http://suzilima.blog Email: suzi.lima@utoronto.ca ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT July 2019 Assistant professor, University of Toronto
Department of Linguistics
2016 – 2019 Assistant professor (CLTA), University of Toronto Department of Linguistics & Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
2014 – 2019 Assistant professor (professora adjunta), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Linguistics Department. 2013 – 2014 Post-Doctoral fellow, Harvard University
Laboratory for developmental studies (Jesse Snedeker Lab, Psychology department). EDUCATION 2008 - 2014 PhD in Linguistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dissertation: “The Grammar of Individuation and Counting” Committee: Lyn Frazier (co-chair), Angelika Kratzer (co-chair), Seth Cable, Gennaro Chierchia, Charles Clifton Jr.
2006 - 2008 M.A. in Linguistics
University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil. Thesis: “Verb Classes in Juruna: Some Syntactic and Semantic Aspects” Committee: Luciana Storto (chair), Bruna Franchetto, Esmeralda Negrão.
2002 – 2005 B.A. in Linguistics and Portuguese Language
University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil. RESEARCH Language acquisition, language documentation and revitalization, pragmatics, semantics, INTERESTS semantic typology. RESEARCH GRANTS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (INTERNAL GRANTS): RESEARCH
• Principal Investigator. July 2021. Connaught New Research Award. Counting and measuring in African Languages Spoken in Toronto.
• Principal Investigator. November 2019. Victoria College Grant (Research Award). Documenting
reported speech in Yudja (Brazil): language description and pedagogical materials.
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (INTERNAL GRANTS): TEACHING
• Principal Investigator. August 2021. Global classrooms. Course: South American Indigenous Languages.
• Principal Investigator. April 2020, Summer 2021, Fall-Winter 2021. Research Opportunity Program. Internationalized learning at home: investigating African languages spoken in Toronto.
• CO-Principal Investigator (CO-PI: Keren Rice). 2018. Advanced Teaching and Learning in Arts
and Science initiative fund. A multimedia database for Linguistics documentation (LinDoc!).
• Principal Investigator. Research Excursion Program, University of Toronto (funding for designing experiential learning course off-campus). 2017, 2019, 2020 (awarded; suspended due to Covid-19).
EXTERNAL GRANTS
• CO-Principal Investigator (PI: Andrés Salanova; CO-PI investigators: Ana Arregui, Jessica Coon, Suzi Lima). Insight Grant – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Investigations on the theory of action nominals in highly nominalizing languages, 2018.
• Principal Investigator. Endangered Language Fund. Documenting complex structures in Yudja: pedagogical materials, 2016.
• Co-Principal Investigator (Co-Pi: Uli Sauerland). Rio de Janeiro State Foundation to Support Research (Faperj)/ German Research Foundation (DFG). Complex structures in Brazilian indigenous languages: experimental and theoretical studies, 2015.
• Principal Investigator. Rio de Janeiro State Foundation to Support Research (Faperj).
Acquisition and processing of semantics and pragmatics: counting and measuring, 2015.
• Principal Investigator. United Nations/ National Indian Foundation / Indian Museum. Pedagogical grammar of the Kawaiwete language, 2013 – 2014.
• Principal Investigator. Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language. Online
dictionary of verbs of the Yudja language, 2011.
• Principal Investigator. United Nations/ National Indian Foundation / Indian Museum. Documentation of the Kawaiwete language, 2009 - 2013.
• Principal Investigator. Lewis and Clark Foundation/ APS. Pluralization processes in Yudja, 2009.
FELLOWSHIPS
• 5th Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences (LA School), San Pedro
de Atacama – Chile (http://2015.laschool4education.com), 2015.
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Counting and Measuring in Two Tupi languages, 2012 –2014 [Primary applicant: Angelika Kratzer; note that NSF does not award to non-faculty PIs].
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• Fulbright/ Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). Nominal and verbal quantification in Yudja and Kaiabi, 2008 – 2012 [PhD fellowship].
• UMass University Fellowship. Nominal and verbal quantification in Yudja and Kaiabi, 2011 – 2012
[PhD Fellowship].
• São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp). The Syntax of Juruna, 2006-2008 [Fellowship/M.A].
• São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp). The Syntax of Juruna: Argument Structure and Theta Roles, 2004-2005 [Fellowship /Junior Researcher].
• National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). The Language from the
70’s and from Actual Days: a Diachronic Analysis, 2003 – 2004 [Fellowship/Junior Researcher]. AWARDS
• Early Career Researcher Award, Canadian Linguistic Association. Early Career Researcher Award. http://cla-acl.ca/documents/prix-debut-de-carriere-early-career-award/, 2020.
• Academic Honor for the work “The Syntax of Juruna”. 13th International Symposium of USP’s
Junior Researchers. 2005.
• Academic Honor for the work “The Language from the 70’s and from the Actual Days: a Diachronic Analysis”. 12th International Symposium of USP’s Junior Researchers. 2004.
PUBLICATIONS1 BOOKS Under revision Suzi Lima. Yudja Kamena Abïaha Xipa (Dicionário de verbos Yudja/Yudja verbs
dictionary). Finalized Suzi Lima, Pikuruk Kayabi, Montirenti Kaiabi and Aturi Kaiabi. Pedagogical gramar (to be of the Kawaiwete language. Museu do Índio/FUNAI. published) 2011 Suzi Lima. A estrutura argumental dos verbos na língua juruna (yudja): da formação dos
verbos para a análise das estruturas sintáticas. Série: produção acadêmica premiada. São Paulo: Humanitas, 2011.
PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 2020 Lima, S. 2020. Language Maintenance and Revitalization in Canada. Cadernos De
Linguística, 1(3), 01-15.
1 Underlined authors are undergraduate or graduate students who worked under my supervision in projects related to the publications or presentations.
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2020 Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein. A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazil and its relevance for count/mass theories. Linguistic Variation. 20(2), 174-218.
2020 Bonfim, Anari and Suzi Lima. Count and mass nouns in Patxohã. Linguistic Variation.
20(2), 324-335. 2020 Lima, Suzi and Adriana Leitão Martins. Aspectual information impacts the countability
of deverbal nouns in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. 2020 Lima, Suzi. The Kawaiwete pedagogical grammar: linguistic theory, collaborative
language documentation and the production of pedagogical materials. Language Documentation and Conservation.
2020 Elango, Vidhya, Isabella Coutinho and Suzi Lima. A language vitality survey of Macuxi, English and Wapichana in Serra Da Lua, Roraima. Language Documentation and Conservation.
2018 Rothstein, Susan and Suzi Lima. Quantity evaluations in Yudja: the relation between
judgements, language and cultural practice. Synthese. 2018 Lima, Suzi. New perspectives on the count-mass distinction: understudied languages and
psycholinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass. 2018 Lima, Suzi. Quantity judgment studies in Yudja (Tupi): acquisition and interpretation
of nouns. Glossa. Special Volume: The acquisition of mass-count distinction across languages and populations.
2017 Lima, Suzi. On the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja. Revista de Estudos da
Linguagem 25 (3). 1613-1646. 2016 Suzi Lima and Ana Paula Quadros Gomes. The interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese bare
singulars in neutral contexts. In Revista Letras, Curitiba: UFPR, 93, 193-209. 2015 Suzi Lima. Quantity judgments in bilingual speakers. Letras de Hoje. Porto Alegre, 59 (1),
84-90. 2013 Lima, Suzi. Maximality and distributivity in Brazilian Portuguese. LinguiStica 9 (1), 133-
157. 2013 Franchetto, Bruna, Mara Santos and Suzi Lima. Count/mass distinction in Kuikuro: on
individuation and counting. LinguiStica, 9 (1), 55-78. 2005 Suzi Lima. Elisão de fonemas na cadeia de fala. In Filologia e Lingüística Portuguesa (1),
185-194. PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS In press Lima, Suzi and Cristiane Oliveira. Value and quantity in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese: a priming study. Proceedings of 48th Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages.
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2016 Beviláqua, Kayron, Suzi Lima, Roberta Pires de Oliveira. Coercion and Bare Nouns in
Brazilian Portuguese: an experimental study on grinding. Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication (Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches). 1-25.
2016 Lima, Suzi. Container constructions in Yudja: locatives, individuation and measure. Baltic
International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication (Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches). 1-40.
2014 Lima, Suzi. The acquisition of the count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): quantifying
‘quantity’ and ‘number’. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2012), ed. Chia-Ying Chu et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 181-190.
PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED EDITED VOLUMES 2021 Lima, Suzi. Production and comprehension studies on the mass-count distinction in Yudja.
Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number. 2020 Rato, Anabela, Suzi Lima and Natália Rinaldi. The role of linguistics in the second language university classroom: The case of the undergraduate Portuguese program at the University
of Toronto. In Inês Cardoso, Anabela Rato and Vander Tavares (eds.). Teaching and Learning Portuguese in Canada: Multidisciplinary Contributions to SLA Research and Practice. Roosevelt, New Jersey: BoaVista Press.
2019 Lima, Suzi. Processing coercion in Brazilian Portuguese: grinding objects and packaging
substances. Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing – Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Springer.
2018 Lima, Suzi and Pikuruk Kayabi. Recursion of postpositional and possessive phrases in Kawaiwete (Tupi-Guarani, Tupi). In Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia, Tom Roeper and Andrew
Nevins (eds.). Recursion Across Domains. Cambridge University Press. 2015 Lima, Suzi. A estrutura argumental da língua Yudja. In Sintaxe e semântica do verbo em
línguas indígenas no Brasil. Storto, L., Franchetto, B., Lima S. (org.). São Paulo: Mercado das Letras, 65-98.
2007 Suzi Lima. Duplicação como pluralidade de eventos télicos em Juruna. In Viva voz: cisão
de caso, telicidade e posse em línguas indígenas brasileiras, ed. F. Duarte, Minas Gerais: UFMG, 144-184.
PAPERS IN NON-REFERRED EDITED VOLUMES 2020 Lima, Suzi. Numerais, contagem e medida em línguas indígenas. Franchetto, Bruna &
Balykova, Kristina (orgs.) Índio não fala só tupi. Uma viagem pelas línguas dos povos originários no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Editora 7 Letras.
PAPERS IN NON-REFERRED PROCEEDINGS
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In press Lima, Suzi and Guillaume Thomas. Switch Reference in Yudja and Update Logic with Centering. WSCLA 22 Proceedings.
2017 Lima, Suzi, Peggy Li and Jesse Snedeker. Acquiring the Denotation of Object Denoting
Nouns. Proceedings of GALA 2015. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015 Lima, Suzi and Pikuruk Kayabi. Construções com numerais em Kawaiwete e a distinção
contável-massivo. Aspectos gramaticais de línguas indigenas sulamaricanas. Angela Fabiola Alves Chagas, Antonio Almir Silva Gomes e Eduardo Alves Vasconcelos (eds). Macapá: Editora Autografia / EDUNIFAP, 69-82.
2015 Khrizman, Keren Fred Landman, Suzi Lima, Susan Rothstein and Brigitta R. Schvarcz.
Portion readings are count readings, not measure readings. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2015, 197-206.
2015 Mazarakis, Carolina and Suzi Lima. Leitura recursiva e distributiva de sintagmas
preposicionais no português brasileiro. In Anais do IX Congresso internacional da ABRALIN. 2014 Lima, Suzi. All notional mass nouns are count nouns in Yudja. Proceedings of SALT 24, 534-
554. 2014 Lima, Suzi. On the locative interpretation of container phrases in Yudja. University of
Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: 20 (1), 201-210. 2012 Lima, Suzi. Numerals and the universal packager in Yudja (Tupi). In 6th SULA Proceedings,
ed. E. Bogal-Allbritten. Amherst: GLSA, 81-104. 2010 Lima, Suzi. Count and mass distinction in Yudja. In 15th WSCLA Proceedings. Vancouver:
UBC. 2007 Lima, Suzi. Plurality and distributivity in Juruna: some considerations about verbal
cumulativity. In 4th SULA Proceedings, ed. A. Deal, Amherst: GLSA, 117-128. 2007 Lima, Suzi. Observações preliminares sobre os verbos da língua Juruna: raízes e processos
sintáticos. In Estudos Linguísticos XXXVI (1): análise linguística, Campinas: GEL, 278-286.
2006 Lima, Suzi. Duplicação, Supleção, Afixação e Alternância Verbal em línguas Tupi:
pluralidade de sintagmas nominais ou de eventos?. In Anais IX ENAPOL, ed. S. Lima, São Paulo: USP/Editora Paulistana, 1-8.
2005 Lima, Suzi. Perguntas e respostas na sala de aula: o que, afinal, elas representam na
interação?. In Cadernos de Pesquisa na Graduação em Letras. VOLUMES EDITED In progress Lima, Suzi and Tonjes Veenstra. Quotatives in Brazilian Indigenous Languages. Language
Documentation and Description. [Peer-reviewed special volume]. In progress Lima, Suzi. Studies on the mass-count distinction. Liames.
[Peer-reviewed special volume]
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In progress Lima, Suzi and Tonjes Veenstra. Complex structures in Brazilian Languages. Boletim do
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. [Peer-reviewed special volume]. 2020 Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein. Linguistics Variation. Volume: A typology of count,
mass and number in Brazilian languages [Peer-reviewed special volume]. 2019 Rato, Anabela and Suzi Lima. Revista Diacrítica. Volume: Linguística Experimental e
Variedades do Português. [Peer-reviewed special volume]. 2018 Rato, Anabela and Suzi Lima. Estudos Experimentais sobre o Português. Revista LinguíStica.
[Peer-reviewed special volume]. 2015 Lima, Suzi. Organizer. Yafu: o retorno do chocalho. Museu do índio/FUNAI (book of
transcribed and translated lyrics of Kawaiwete music). 2015 Storto, Luciana, Bruna Franchetto and Suzi Lima. Editors. Estrutura Argumental das
Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras. São Paulo: Parábola [Book]. 2011 Lima, Suzi, Kevin Mullin and Brian Smith. Editors. NELS 39: Proceedings of the 39th
Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. GLSA, Amherst. 2010 Lima, Suzi. Editor. 5th SULA Proceedings. GLSA, Amherst. PUBLISHED REVIEWS 2017 Lima, Suzi. Review of The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages by Peter Austin & Sallabank, Julia. LinguíStica 13(1), 42-51. 2014 Lima, Suzi. Review of Trabalhando a partir hipóteses falsificáveis’ ou ‘Sobre os mitos
acerca dos C-linguistas’: uma resenha crítica de “How to investigate linguistic diversity: lessons from the pacific northwest by Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon e Lisa Matthewson. LinguíStica. 10 (2), 21-34.
PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE TALKS 2021 Lima, Suzi. Relative measure in Brazilian Portuguese. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA). June 4-7, 2021. 2019 Lima, Suzi. Quotatives in Yudja. Workshop “Speech and Attitude Reports in Brazilian
Languages’. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. December 9-11, 2019. 2019 Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Diene Franco, Josemar Paulino, Guilherme Teruya, Octavia-
Andrade Dixon, Suzi Lima. Quotatives in Ye’kwana and Taurepang. Workshop “Speech and Attitude Reports in Brazilian Languages’. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. December 9-11, 2019.
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2019 Lima, Suzi. Oficinas de linguística em comunidades indígenas e pesquisa colaborativa. At
the Symposium “Languages and peoples threatened: political impacts of linguistic work”. Associação Brasileira de Linguística (Abralin 50). May 2019.
2018 Lima, Suzi and Adriana Leitão Martins. Aspectual information affects the countability of deverbal nouns in Brazilian Portuguese. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA). 2018 Lima, Suzi and Cristiane Oliveira. Value and quantity in the evaluation of bare singulars in
Brazilian Portuguese: a priming study. 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages April 2018.
2017 Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein. Borrowing of Brazilian Portuguese measure words in
Yudja. Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment. July, 2017. 2017 Lima, Suzi and Guillaume Thomas. Switch reference in Yudja. 22nd Workshop on
Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, UBC, April 2017. 2016 Lima, Suzi. On the interpretation of object denoting nouns in Yudja. Sula 9: the semantics of
under-represented languages in the Americas. 2015 Keren Khrizman, Fred Landman, Lima, Suzi, Susan Rothstein and Brigitta R. Schvarcz.
Portion readings are count readings, not measure readings. Paper presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2015.
2015 Kayron Beviláqua, Roberta Pires de Oliveira, Suzi Lima and Raissa Benassi. Coercion and
Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese: an Experimental Study on the Universal Grinder. 11th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication (“Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches”). University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, December, 2015.
2015 Lima, Suzi, Peggy Li and Jesse Snedeker. Acquiring the denotation of object-denoting
nouns. Generative approaches to language acquisition (GALA 2015). Université de Nantes, France, September 2015.
2015 Lima, Suzi. Métodos em semântica formal e experimental: um estudo de caso a partir do
fenômeno de quantificação nominal em Yudja. Roundtable Semântica formal e línguas indígenas: variação linguística e metodologia. IX Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Linguística. Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, February, 2015.
2015 Lima, Suzi, Peggy Li and Jesse Snedeker. Acquisition of numerals in Yudja: when children
are exposed to numerals. Symposium: “Línguas indígenas e linguística experimental” at the IX Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Linguística. Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, February, 2015.
2015 Quadros Gomes, Ana Paula and Suzi Lima. Bare singular mass nouns can be interpreted as
count nouns in BP. Third ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress. UFRJ/PUC-Rio, Brazil, March 2015.
2014 Lima, Suzi. Crie indivíduos e só então meça: sobre a interpretação dos sintagmas de
recipientes. Paper presented at 1st Formal and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics,
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PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2014 Lima, Suzi. All notional mass nouns are count nouns in Yudja. Paper presented at SALT
24, New York University. 2014 Lima, Suzi. Language affects quantity judgments in bilingual Yudja speakers. Paper
presented at the 27th Annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing (University of Columbus, Ohio).
2013 Lima, Suzi. Recursion of container phrases in Yudja. Recursion in Brazilian languages and
beyond 2013, UFRJ/UMass Amherst, Rio de Janeiro. 2013 Lima, Suzi, Aturi Kaiabi and Pikuruk Kaiabi. Recursion of postpositional and locative
phrases in Kawaiwete. Recursion in Brazilian languages and beyond 2013, UFRJ/Umass amherst, Rio de Janeiro.
2013 Lima, Suzi, Pikuruk Kaiabi and Aturi Kaiabi. The count/mass distinction in Kawaiwete
(Tupi; Brazil). WSCLA 18, University of Berkeley, Berkley. 2012 Lima, Suzi. The count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): quantity judgment studies. Paper
presented at Massif/Comptable en Linguistique, Philosophie et Sciences Cognitives. ENS, Paris.
2011 Lima, Suzi. Quantity judgments in Yudja: preliminary results. Paper presented at UUSLAW
(UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop), UConn, Storrs. 2011 Lima, Suzi. On the count-mass distinction in Yudja. Paper presented at the 3rd International
Conference on Bare Nominals, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro. 2011 Lima, Suzi. Numerals and the count-mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): on coercion. Paper
presented at WSCLA 16th, UMass, Amherst. 2010 Lima, Suzi. Bare nouns and plurality in Yudja: mass nouns and the signature property. Paper
presented at Countability 2010, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum. 2010 Lima, Suzi. There is no count-mass distinction in Yudja. Paper presented at WSCLA 15th,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa. 2009 Lima, Suzi. Numeral Quantification in Juruna: Exactly and Approximately Reading. Paper
presented at SULA 5, MIT, Cambridge. 2008 Lima, Suzi. Plurality and Distributivity in Juruna. Paper presented at SULA 4, USP, São
Paulo. 2007 Lima, Suzi. Das classes verbais da língua Juruna: aspectos sintáticos e semânticos. II
Encontro de Pós-Graduandos da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da USP.
2007 Lima, Suzi. Plurality and distributivity in Juruna: some considerations about verbal
cumulativity. Sula 4: the semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas.
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2007 Lima, Suzi. Antipassivas em Juruna? Considerações iniciais e conseqüências sintáticas. II Encontro Internacional sobreLínguas e Culturas dos Povos Tupi. Universidade de Brasília.
2006 Lima, Suzi and Thiago Coutinho-Silva. What happens to bare nouns in Brazilian
Portuguese? A hypothesis to discuss noun phrases in BP and in Tupi Languages. Workshop Romania Nova II/V ELFE (Encontro Nacional de Língua Falada e Escrita). Universidade Federal de Alagoas/ Maceió,Brazil
2006 Lima, Suzi. Duplicação, supleção, afixação e alternância verbal nas línguas Tupi:
pluralidade de sintagmas nominais ou de eventos? IX Enapol - Linguística Crítica: afinal, o que nós,linguistas, fazemos? Universidade de São Paulo.
POSTERS 2018 Lima, Suzi, Alice Jesus, Rui Marques and Ana Lúcia Santos. Constraints on the use of
subjunctive in Brazilian Portuguese: a production study. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA).
2018 Lima, Suzi. Processing coercion in Brazilian Portuguese: grinding objects and packaging
substances. Lynschrift 18. 2016 Lima, Suzi, Peggy Li and Jesse Snedeker. Counting on a count list: what Yudja tells us about
number word acquisition. 41st CUNY University Conference on Language Development. Boston, November 4-6 2016.
2016 Lima, Suzi. On object denoting nouns defining atoms. SALT 26, University of Texas, May
2016. 2015 Lima, Suzi and Jesse Snedeker. Individuate, then measure: on the acquisition of container
phrases in English. Third ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress. UFRJ/PUC-Rio, Brazil, March 2015.
2015 Lima, Suzi and Jesse Snedeker. On the acquisition and interpretation of container phrases in
English. 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USC, March 2015. 2014 Lima, Suzi, Peggy Li and Jesse Sendeker. Acquiring the denotation of object-denoting nouns
in a language without partitives. 39 Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2013 Lima, Suzi. Container nouns and counting in Yudja (Tupi). 37th Annual Penn Linguistics
Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. 2012 Lima, Suzi. The acquisition of the count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): quantifying
‘quantity’ and ‘number’. Poster presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America (Galana 5), University of Kansas, Kansas.
2012 Lima, Suzi. Quantity judgments in Yudja. Poster presented at The 25th Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY, New York.
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2011 Lima, Suzi. Quantity judgments in Yudja: experimental evidence for a contextual parameter for counting (poster). Poster presented at 3rd International Conference on Bare Nominals, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro.
2007 Lima, Suzi. Cumulatividade nominal e verbal na língua Juruna. Poster presented at Dominíos
do verbo, UFPR, Curitiba. 2007 Lima, Suzi. Advérbios de VP e IP na língua Juruna. Grupo de Trabalho “Teoria da
Gramática”. XXII Encontro Nacional da ANPOLL.
2006 Lima, Suzi. Transitividade e intransitividade na língua Juruna: considerações iniciais. Grupo de Trabalho “Teoria da Gramática” . XXI Encontro Nacional da ANPOLL.
INVITED TALKS Forthcoming TBA. Virtual colloquium series at the University of Arizona. Linguistics Department. 2021 Counting in Brazilian Indigenous Languages. Tel Aviv University (Thursday
Interdisciplinary Colloquium), January 13, 2021. 2020 Roundtable on semantic fieldwork methodology (Jérémy Pasquereau, Seth Cable, Reginald
Duah, Suzi Lima and Lisa Matthewson). Sinn und Bedeutung 25. University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
2020 Defining atoms: a view from Brazilian languages. Experiments in Linguistic
Meaning. University of Pennsylvania. June 10-12, 2020. 2020 What do we count? A view from Brazilian languages.
• Michigan State University Linguistics colloquium. January 16, 2020. • York University Linguistics Lecture Series. February 27, 2020.
2019 What do we count? A view from Brazilian languages. Amsterdam Colloquium. December
18-20, 2019. 2019 Exchanging views: strategies for language maintenance and revitalization in Brazil and
Canada. Viva Língua Viva, UFRJ/Museu do Índio, November 11-14, 2019. 2019 A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazilian languages. Ninth Conference on
Indigenous Languages of Latin America, The University of Texas at Austin, October 24-26, 2019.
2019 Acquistion of numerals in Yudja: the role of count lists in the acquisition of numerals.
Conference ‘The Emergence of Number’, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 16-18, 2019.
2019 Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras.
• Event: “Brasil e Canadá: um diálogo sobre diversidade linguística”, Universidade Estadual de Roraima, campus Rorainópolis, 21 de maio de 2019.
• Event: “Brasil e Canadá: um diálogo sobre diversidade linguística”, Universidade Estadual de Roraima, campus Boa Vista, 22 de maio de 2019.
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2019 TBA. LingLangLunch talk series and lecture (course: Linguistics field methods), Brown University, March 14, 2019. 2019 TBA. 11th Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON 11), University of Toronto, March 8-10, 2019. 2019 A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazil and its relevance for count/mass
theories. Berkley Linguistics Society: Countability Distinctions, University of California, Berkeley, February 8-9, 2019.
2018 A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazil and its relevance for count/mass theories.
• Carleton Linguistics Colloquium. Carleton University, October, 2018 • 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the
Americas, University of Ottawa, April 2018.
2017 Ensino de Línguas indígenas e produção de materiais didáticos: as experiências karajá e Kawaiwete. Colóquio de Leitura e Escrita em Educação e Psicolinguística, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, November 2017.
2017 On the interpretation of object-denoting nouns.
• University of Ottawa, Department Colloquia, November 2017. • Semantics reading group (prof. Susan Rothstein’s group) at Bar Ilan University,
June 2017. 2017 On the interpretation of container phrases across languages. Bar Ilan's Linguistics
Colloquium (Bar Ilan University, Israel), June 2017. 2017 The role of count lists in the acquisition of numerals.
• Psycholinguistics group at UofT. April 2017. • McMaster Univesity's Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series. April 2017. • The Role of count lists in the acquisition of numerals. SFB Kolloquium. Heinrich
Heine Universität Düsseldorf. June 2016.
2017 Language revitalization in Brazil. Friends of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, April 2017.
2017 Brazilian Indigenous Languages: maintenance and revitalization. Fieldwork group at the
University of Toronto, March 2017. 2017 Interpretation of container phrases across languages: counting and measuring. Cross-
linguistic Pragmatics, ZAS/Berlin, January 2017. 2016 Suzi Lima. On the interpretation of container phrases. Recursion Project group (Ana Perez-
Leroux). December 2016. 2016 The interpretation of container phrases: properties of the concrete portion in Yudja. XI
Workshop on Formal Linguistics. Curitiba, November 2016.
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2016 On Concrete portion, individuation and measurement interpretations: interpreting container phrases. Countability Workshop. Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf. June 2016.
2016 On the interpretation of object denoting nouns in Yudja. Heinrich Heine Universität
Düsseldorf. June 2016. 2015 Suzi Lima. Let context define your atoms.
• ZAS (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft). December, 2015. • 11th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
(“Number: Cognitive, Semantic and Crosslinguistic Approaches”). University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, December, 2015.
2015 Suzi Lima. Documentação de línguas indígenas: o Prodoclin Kawaiwete/ Kayabi. Nona
Primavera dos Museus. Museu do Índio, October 2015. 2015 Métodos em semântica formal e experimental: um estudo de caso a partir do fenômeno de
quantificação nominal em Yudja. Roundtable ‘Semântica formal e línguas indígenas: variação linguística e metodologia’ (Formal semantics and indigenous languages: linguistic variation and methodology). Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
2015 Acquisition and interpretation of container phrases in English and Yudja: first count, then
measure. Keynote talk at the workshop ‘Numbers, counting and measuring. Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2015 Acquiring numerals and counting objects in Yudja. colloquium talk at the department of
English literature and linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2014 Numeramento e linguagem. II Encontro sobre ensino de línguas indígenas em Roraima.
Universidade Federal de Roraima Boa Vista, Brazil. 2014 On the acquisition of individuation and counting. 2014 European Society for Philosophy
& Psychology (22nd Annual meeting). University of Messina, Noto, Sicily, Italy. 2014 Semântica formal e experimental: novos caminhos. 1st Formal and Experimental Semantics
and Pragmatics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2014 Counting and Measuring in Brazilian Indigenous Communities DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series, Harvard University, Cambridge.
2013 The count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): individuation and counting. Spring talks on Mass
and Count, Harvard University (Linguistics Department), Cambridge. 2013 Individuation and counting in Yudja (Tupi).
• Harvard University (Language and Cognition, Psychology Department), Cambridge. • TUFTS Linguistics Seminar, Cambridge.
2012 Counting as a context dependent operation in Yudja (Tupi). Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv.
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2011 Numerals and the universal packager in Yudja (Tupi). SULA 6, University of Manchester, Manchester.
TEACHING (REDUCED LIST: courses taught at the University of Toronto only) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Linguistics
- Undergraduate course: Internationalized learning at home: investigating African languages spoken in Toronto (Research Opportunity Program) (Fall-Winter 2020, Summer 2021, Fall-Winter 2021 [forthcoming])
- Graduate course: Advanced Semantics: Semantic studies on South American Languages (Fall 2020)
- Undergraduate course: Introduction to Language (Fall 2020 [with Nathan Sanders], Fall 2021 [forthcoming]).
- Undergraduate course: Language Diversity and Language Universals (Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2021, Fall 2021)
- Graduate/undergraduate course: Field Linguistics/ Field Methods (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022 [forthcoming])
Spanish and Portuguese Department
- Graduate course: Topics on the Acquisition of Spanish (Winter 2018) - Graduate course: Spanish and Portuguese Semantics (Winter 2017, Winter 2019) - Undergraduate course: Advanced Academic Portuguese (Winter 2019) - Undergraduate course: Brazilian Indigenous Languages: documentation, language maintenance
and revitalization (Research Excursion Program) (Summer 2017, Summer 2019) - Undergraduate course: Introduction to Portuguese Linguistics (Fall 2017) - Undergraduate course: Brazilian Indigenous Languages (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018) - Undergraduate course: Advanced Portuguese (Fall 2017) - Undergraduate course: Composition and oral Practice (Fall 2016, Winter 2017)
LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS 2013 – 2015 Head of the project ‘Pedagogical grammar of the Kawaiwete (Kaiabi) language’ – Unesco/
Museu do Índio/Funai Activities: production of pedagogical grammar in Kawaiwete (monolingual).
2008 – 2011 Linguistic consultant - Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)
Activities: development of educational projects with Brazilian endangered communities in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.
2009 – 2013 Head of the documentation project ‘Kawaiwete (Kaiabi)’ – Unesco/ Museu do Índio/Funai
Activities: documentation of the Kawaiwete language; training of indigenous researchers; preparation of educational materials (reading books, dictionary, descriptive grammar); workshops on language maintenance and revitalization.
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STUDENTS SUPERVISOR: POST-DOC
• Gitanna Brito Bezerra. The influence of referentiality and preposition-determiner contraction on relative clause processing. University of Toronto. Fellowship: CAPES. 2018 - 2019.
ADVISING: GENERALS PAPERS
• Ongoing: Ana Tona Messina. Semantic Frames of verbs of speech verbs in Nahuatl. • Shabri Kapoor. Exploring the Count/Mass Distinction in Cusco Quechua. University of Toronto.
May 2021. ADVISING: PHD DISSERTATIONS
• Ongoing: Fiona Wilson. Variation in Cree Negation. • Ongoing: Katherine Nicoll. Co-Advisor: Keir Moulton. Counting and Measuring in Inuttitut.
University of Toronto. • Ongoing: Ohanna Severo. Co-Advisor: Cristina Cuervo. Bare singular properties in a Spanish-
Brazilian Portuguese contact setting. • Isabella Coutinho. PhD dissertation co-advisor. (with Kris Stenzel). The count-mass
distinction in Ye’kwana: semantics aspects and acquisition. Universidade Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2018.
ADVISING: MA STUDENTS
• Gregory Antono. Pluractionality in Macuxi. University of Toronto. 2020. • Ohanna Severo. MA supervisor. Propriedades referenciais discursivas dos nomes nus no
português brasileiro. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2019.
ADVISING: BA THESIS
• Camila Camargos. Leituras coletivas e distributivas no português brasileiro. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2017.
• Ohanna Severo. A interpretação dos nomes nus no Espanhol. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016.
• Andresa Bernardino. Denotação de nomes contáveis e pseudopartitivos no português brasileiro. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016.
• Filipe Hisao de Salles Kobayashi. Tempo de posse, cessação e lifetime effects. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016.
MEMBER OF COMMITTEES: PHD DISSERTATIONS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
• Ongoing: Jean-François. Supervisor: Cristina Cuervo.
• Ongoing: Samuel Jambrovic. Supervisor: Cristina Cuervo.
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• Ongoing: Caroline Mekhaeil. Dissertation committee member. Comment expliquer le transfert vers la L3?. University of Toronto Mississauga. Supervisor: Mihaela Pirvulescu.
• Ongoing: Owen Ward. Dissertation committee member. The role of vowel reduction in the perception and production of English lexical stress by Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Supervisor: Anabela Rato.
• Ongoing: Natalia Rinaldi. Dissertation committee member. Acquisition of modals in Brazilian Portuguese. University of Toronto. Supervisor: Ana Teresa Perez Leroux.
• Ongoing: Erin Pettibone. Dissertation committee member. A restricted view: The acquisition of non-restrictive/restrictive interpretations of adjectives. University of Toronto. Supervisor: Ana Teresa Perez Leroux.
EXTERNAL PHD EXAMINER OF THESIS PROPOSAL
• Anari Braz Bomfim. Materializações da língua Pataxó no tempo presente: um estudo sobre o patxohã do Extremo Sul da Bahia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. November 4, 2019.
EXTERNAL PHD EXAMINER • Kayron Campos Bevilaqua. A semântica dos sintagmas nominais através das línguas: estudos
experimentais sobre a distinção contável-massivo. Universidade Federal do Paraná. 2019. Supervisor: Roberta Pires de Oliveira.
• Karin Vivanco. PhD Dissertation. Dissertation committee member. Perguntas QU-, orações
subordinadas e ordem de palavras em Karitiana. Universidade de São Paulo. 2018. Supervisor: Luciana Storto.
• João Claudio de Lima Junior. PhD Dissertation. Dissertation committee member. Aquisição e
processamento de sentenças passivas: uma investigação experimental com infantes, crianças e adultos. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. 2016. Supervisor: Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa.
• Rafael Saint-Clair Xavier Silveira Braga. PhD Dissertation. Dissertation committee
member. Cliticização e Redobro de Clíticos Pronominais em Kayabí (Tupi Guarani, Tupi): A natureza ambígua de constituintes clíticos. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2016. Supervisor: Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros.
• Cristiane Oliveira da Silva. PhD Dissertation. Dissertation committee member. O processamento do
numeral distributivo sohodji-sohodji. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016. Supervisor: Marcus Maia.
• Ana Lúcia Pessotto dos Santos. PhD Dissertation. Dissertation committee member. Força e
evidência: uma análise teórico-experimental de 'pode', 'deve' e 'tem que'. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. 2015. Supervisor: Roberta Pires de Oliveira.
EXTERNAL MA EXAMINER
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• Ingryd Moraes de Moraes Lira. Thesis committee member. Descrição e análise de propriedades semânticas e morfossintáticas de nomes contáveis e nomes massivos em Parkatêjê. Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, March 2020. Supervisor: Marília de Nazaré de Oliveira Ferreira.
• Juliana Vignado do Nascimento. Thesis committee member. A interface sintática e semântica na análise dos sistemas numerais do karitiana e do kamayurá. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, June 2019. Supervisor: Ana Müller.
• Christine Hnout. Thesis committee member. Counting and Measuring in Arabic: Plurality and
‘senf’. Bar Ilan University, Israel, 2016. Supervisor: Susan Rothstein.
MEMBER OF COMMITTEES: BA THESIS
• Walter Alves. O sistema numeral da língua Guató. Reader. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2018. Supervisor: Bruna Franchetto.
• Isadora Pinheiro. Imprecisão e Vagueza: efeitos sobre a gramática do adjetivo. Reader. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2018. Supervisor: Ana Paula Quadros Gomes.
• Juliana Fernandes Corrêa Nunes. Perífrases progressivas no presente no português do Brasil: uma
análise aspectual. Reader. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2017. Supervisor: Adriana Leitão Martins.
• Tatiane Sudré. A posição dos adjetivos no sintagma nominal sob um olhar sintático-semântico.
Reader. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016. Supervisor: Ana Paula Quadros Gomes.
• Noemia da Silva Costa. Imprecisão e vagueza: efeitos sobre a gramática do adjetivo. Reader.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2015. Supervisor: Ana Paula Quadros Gomes. COMPREHENSIVE EXAM AND GENERAL PAPERS (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
• Comprehensive exam: Ohanna Severo. June 22, 2021. (Supervisor: Cristina Cuervo).
• Generals paper: Hon-Yan Liu. Quantized predicates. Septemebr 3, 2019. (Supervisor: Guillaume Thomas).
• Comprehensive exam: Owen Ward. May 2019. (Supervisor: Anabela Rato).
• Generals paper: Angelika Kiss. April 2019. Word Order Variation in Mbyá. (Supervisor: Guillaume Thomas).
• Generals paper: Maida Percival. 2018. Degree constructions and direct scale segments in Eastern Oromo (Supervisor: Guillaume Thomas).
• Comprehensive exam: Natalia Rinaldi. 2018. (Supervisor: Ana Pérez-Leroux).
• Generals paper: Patrick Murphy. 2017. Complement Coercion in the Canadian English "be done NP" Construction (Supervisors: Meg Grant and Philip Monahan).
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• Generals paper: Frederick Gietz. The inferences of aspectual particles. 2017 (Supervisor: Guillaume Thomas).
• Comprehensive exam: Sophie Elizabeth Harrington. 2016. (Supervisor: Cristina Cuervo).
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION
• Gregory Antono. Field Semantics: Macuxi. University of Toronto. 2018 – 2019 [Independent Study].
• Vidhya Elango. Language Vitality in Macuxi. University of Toronto. 2016 – 2018 [Independent Study].
• Calahan Janik-Jones. Annotated corpora of Nheengatu: information structure. University of Toronto. 2016 – 2018 [Independent Study].
• Natália Londono Castrillon. Numerals in Tupi-Guarani languages. University of Toronto. 2016.
• Ohanna Severo. On the interpretation of bare singulars in Spanish. Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Fellowship: Faperj. 2015 – 2017.
• Andressa Bernardino. Acquisition of count nouns and partitives in Brazilian Portuguese. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2014 – 2016.
• Camila Camargos. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Covert distributivity in
Brazilian Portuguese. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016.
• Filipe Hisao Kobayashi. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tempo de posse, cessação e lifetime effects. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016.
• Desiree Pace. On the acquisition of numerals and container phrases in Brazilian Portuguese.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fellowship: PIBIC-EM, CNPq. 2014 – 2015.
• Alzineia Rodrigues Barreto Filha Souza. The acquisition of flexible nouns by L2 Hebrew speakers. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2014 – 2015.
• Carolina Mazarakis. Recursive and distributive interpretations of multiple embedded PPs in Brazilian
Portuguese. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2014 – 2015. SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: SERVICE
• Invited speaker at the roundtable ‘Black students talk to Black professors’. Access & Inclusion Programs (October 4, 2019)
• Invited speaker at the roundtable ‘Indigenous, Black & Racialized Students Confront Imposter Syndrome’, Access & Inclusion Programs (February 20, 2020).
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP REVIEWING (REDUCED LIST: 2019 onwards)
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• 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, 2021. • TU+6: Sixth Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic. • Spatial Cognition-2020/1 • Triple A 8 (Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages Workshop) • Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 11, 2020 (Mexico City at El Colegio
de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) • 2020 CLA (Canadian Linguistics Association) meeting (Western). • Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1, 2020 (University of Pennsylvania). • TbiLLC 2019: Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. • Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück University, Germany. • Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 24, University of
Maryland, College Park, 2019. • Amsterdam Colloquium 2019 • 2019 CLA (Canadian Linguistics Association) meeting (UBC).
JOURNAL REVIEWING Summer 2021 onwards:
• Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Semantics and Pragmatics.
Prior May 1st 2021: • Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Brazil], Caderno de Squibs: temas em estudos formais
da linguagem [Brazil], Forma y Función [Colombia], Glossa, International Journal of American Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Liames [Brazil]; Lingua, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language Semantics, Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas [Brazil], Revista da Abralin [Brazil], Revista de Estudos da Linguagem [Brazil], Revista LinguíStica [Brazil].
MEDIA
• BBC Future, 2020 - Interview featured in the article ‘What happens if you have no word for 'dinosaur’?’, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200116-what-happens-when-you-have-no-word-for-dinosaur
• UofT News, 2019 - Interview featured in the article 'Piecing together a puzzle': Undergraduate students travel to Brazil to document and preserve Indigenous languages. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/piecing-together-puzzle-undergraduate-students-travel-brazil-document-and-preserve-indigenous
EVENTS (REDUCED LIST: 2019 onwards)
• Co-organizer (with Anabela Rato) of the Third Experimental Portuguese Linguistics Workshop. University of Toronto. Forthcoming (April 23-24, 2021).
• Organizer of the Lingala Poster sessions. University of Toronto (April 5 and 7, 2021). • Co-organizer (with Hein van der Voort and Tonjes Veenstra) of the Workshop ‘Speech and Attitude
Reports in Brazilian Languages’. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. December 9-11, 2019.
• Organizer of the Quechuan Languages Workshop. University of Toronto. December 5, 2019.
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• Co-organizer (with Tonjes Veenstra) of the Special Session at Abralin (Brazilian Association of Linguistics) on Complex Structures in Brazilian Portuguese. Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Forthcoming (May 5-9, 2019).
• Co-organizer (with Anabela Rato) of the Second Experimental Portuguese Linguistics Workshop. University of Toronto. Forthcoming (April 26-27, 2019).
INSTITUTIONAL/DEPARTMENT SERVICE (REDUCED LIST: 2019 onwards)
• Ongoing: Chair of the Racial Justice Working Group, 2021- • Ongoing: Chair of Delegated Ethics Review Committee for course-based research in Linguistics,
July 2019 – in progress. • SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) Committee (Linguistics Department), 2020-2021. • Racial Justice Working Group (Member, Linguistics Department), 2020-2021. • Outreach committee (Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto), 2018 – 2019. • Graduate committee (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto), 2016 – 2019.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN AND STUDIED Native Brazilian Portuguese Fluent English Intermediate French, Spanish Fieldwork Yudja, Kawaiwete, Lingala, Kirundi, Tshiluba.