Linguistics, indigenous languages, and analysis from a formal perspective

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n1a55815

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By taking into account both the study of indigenous languages and the discipline of linguistics at large, this issue of Revista Linguística presents to the reader a series of dialogues internal to the field itself, as well as those that take place at the interface between linguistics and other sciences. These will certainly benefit ongoing investigations under a formalist framework, while, at the same time, suggesting new possibilities for re-interpretations and fresh assessments of traditional themes under a formalist approach. We present, in what follows, the proposals and developments internal to each of the papers included in this edited volume.

Author Biographies

Marília Facó Soares, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Marília Facó Soares is Full Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil). She works in postgraduate courses in the areas of Linguistics, Social Anthropology and Archeology. PhD in Linguistics (UNICAMP, 1992), with a Dissertation on Tikuna, a language spoken by one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil, which also has speakers in Peru and Colombia. In addition to her continued work on Tikuna, her research activities have also included languages of the Tupi-Guarani and Pano language families. For over thirty years she has worked directly with indigenous populations, advising projects in the field of indigenous education. She coordinated, for eight years, collaborative projects with French teams within the framework of an agreement between Brazil and France. She also coordinated and executed linguistic works focused on archives and research collections and received, in Brazil, awards for projects focused on indigenous languages. As part of her academic education, while still an undergraduate student (UFRJ), she studied literature and music, the latter of which included and preceded her own graduation. Her work with indigenous peoples and languages has encompassed both Amazonian and Central Brazilian groups. Her main research interests are in linguistic theory and analysis, indigenous languages, historical linguistics and applied linguistics.

Claudia Uller, Department of Psychology at Kingston University - Kingston University London

Claudia Uller was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She obtained her PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Alan Leslie at the Rutgers Centre for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, where she lectured as visiting assistant professor. Claudia moved to the United Kingdom to take a post in the University of Essex. She was invited to work as senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge, after which she became Head of Department of Psychology at Kingston University, where she is now associate professor. Claudia's research interests lie in the origins of knowledge in babies, and the evolutionary/comparative cognitive underpinnings in other species.

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2021-04-12

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021): Linguistics, indigenous languages, and analysis from a formal perspective

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