Researcher Links Workshop: The New Historical Linguistics and the Use of Annotated Corpora 9-13 March 2015; Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil

Name Affiliation and email address Research Interests ECR Participants English historical and dialectology; the relationship between spoken and University of Edinburgh Alcorn, Rhona written English, particularly in the mediaeval period; the possibilities and limitations [email protected] of historical corpus phonology. The analysis of syntactic variation and change in a generative framework, University of Campinas particularly in the history of Portuguese and other ; the Andrade, Aroldo [email protected] differences between contemporary varieties of Portuguese, especially Brazilian and European Portuguese; the creation and exploitation of parsed corpora. Kimbundu and Portuguese contact; theoretical models of languages in contact; University of São Paulo Araújo, Paulo Jeferson Pilar transcription and description of Bantu languages; Angolan Portuguese; corpus [email protected] production of undescribed varieties of Bantu languages. Comparative syntax; ; the syntax of English, especially non-standard University of Kent Bailey, Laura constructions (regional or colloquial); interrogatives and related constructions (in a [email protected] generative framework). Syntactic variation and change within Ibero-Romance, with a particular focus on University of Cambridge (Latin-American and Peninsular) Spanish; clitic phenomena (clitic placement, clitic Bouzouita, Miriam [email protected] doubling, analytic futures-synthetic futures, clitic climbing), left-periphery phenomena (focalisations, left-dislocations, stylistic fronting). The use of IT in the promotion of autonomy and awareness in the learning of São Paulo State University advanced English in content-based lessons: tools that enable telecollaboration and Concário, Marcelo [email protected] input sources (explanations, exercises, dictionaries, translators, glossaries, texts and corpora). Name Affiliation and email address Research Interests Valency and argument structure alternations; The status of Morphology University of São Paulo within the Architecture of Grammar; Clitics, incorporation and pseudo-incorporation; Cyrino, João Paulo Lazzarini [email protected] Comparative Morphology and Syntax; Romance, Slavic, Kartvelian and Turkic Languages. The /Germanic/Romance syntax; Basque morphosyntax; quantitative models of language learning, variation, and change; geospatial models University of York Ecay, Aaron of language variation; the development of better (semi-)automatic methods of [email protected] corpus construction; software development for reproducible research, data visualization, and dissemination of results. Historical-comparative studies of Juruna Family, Tupí; studies São Paulo State University Fargetti, Cristina Martins of indigenous languages, in particular, Bilingual Lexicography. Leader [email protected] of the group LINBRA, CNPq. Natural language processing, especially processing; learnability theory University of Campinas Faria, Pablo and computational models of language acquisition; grammatical theory (mainly [email protected] syntax and semantics); psycholinguistics. Investigating the role that gender and classifiers play in reference-tracking using University of Surrey glossed text corpora from four key languages; analysing the rich and extremely Feist, Timothy [email protected] complex verbal inflectional class systems of Oto-Manguean languages; descriptive work on Skolt Saami, a highly endangered Finno-Ugric language spoken in Finland. The interface between sociocultural and linguistic phenomena in the transition between "Latin" and "Romance", especially in the Iberian Pensinsula, and in University of São Paulo Finbow, Thomas Daniel particular the potential impact of different representational strategies employed in [email protected] writing. The linguistic history of Tupian languages, including the structural and metalinguistic changes between Old Tupi and the Língua Geral Amazônica. The analysis of L2 grammatical representation within the generative framework and Fonseca, Maria Cristina Federal University of São Paulo L2 sentence processing; the statistical analysis of data gathered from online Micelli [email protected] processing techniques and their interaction with L2 learners' knowledge of language. Morphology and syntax interface in a generative framework; experimental and University of Campinas Freitas, Maria Luisa quantitative approaches to morphophonology; person hierarchy; object shift; [email protected] indigenous languages of South America. Tibetan literature and Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics. In particular School of Oriental and African Studies I have published on Old Tibetan descriptive linguistics, Tibetan corpus linguistics, Hill, Nathan W. [email protected] Tibeto-Burman reconstruction and comparative linguistics, and the typology of evidential systems.

2 Name Affiliation and email address Research Interests Syntax and syntactic variation in a generative framework, syntax-semantics University of York interface, DP structure, small clauses, complex predicates, differential object Irimia, Monica Alexandrina [email protected] marking, syntax of scope, evidentiallity, resultativity, TAM, Romance languages, Finno-Ugric, Eskimo-Ale. Semantics/morphology interface within cognitive linguistics; figurative patterns, Federal University of São Paulo namely metaphor, metonymy, and heterosemy; the issue of whether the Lemos de Souza, Janderson [email protected] architecture of grammar leads to the formation of grammatical constructions as basic units. Syntactic variation and change, with a particular interest in information structure and University of York the syntax-pragmatics interface; comparative and diachronic studies within the Light, Caitlin [email protected] Germanic language family; adapting corpora and methodology for use in information structure research. How linguistic variation and the conditions that govern it are stored and produced by University of Manchester a speaker's linguistic system. This includes both synchronic variability and the MacKenzie, Laurel [email protected] potential for change in a speaker's grammatical representations over time (=language change across the lifespan). The Compounding Parameter in second language acquisition (early consecutive Federal University of São Paulo Marcelino, Marcello bilinguals and late bilinguals), the description of the nature of interlanguage [email protected] development in late bilinguals in a generative framework. The development of corpus-driven lexical resources for historical languages from a The Oxford Research Centre in the methodological perspective, particularly for Latin verbal argument structure; McGillivray, Barbara Humanities quantitative approaches to historical corpus linguistics, including multivariate [email protected] statistical methods. Comparative and historical syntax; nominal syntax, argument structure, especially University of York dative, genitive and implicit arguments in the verbal and nominal domain; Greek, Michelioudakis, Dimitris [email protected] Romance, Indo-iranian, and indigenous languages of South America; syntax- semantics and diachrony of compounds and of focus-associating particles. The relations between language and thought; the syntax of natural languages, University of São Paulo Modesto, Marcello particularly ; null subjects in weak agreement languages; topic [email protected] prominent languages; inflected infinitives and the history of BP. The analysis of syntactic variation and change in a generative framework, University of Southwest Bahia Namiuti-Temponi, Cristiane particulary in the history of Portuguese; issues involving the union of Linguistics and [email protected] Computer Science for creation and exploitation of parsed corpora. University of São Paulo Linguistic variation and change, social meaning of linguistic variation, São Paulo Oushiro, Livia [email protected] Portuguese, methods for quantitative analysis.

3 Name Affiliation and email address Research Interests Syntax and morphology (DM), morpho-syntax of case and agreement in Nakh- University of York Radkevich, Nina Dagestanian, locality in morphology (allomorphy and portmanteaus), null elements [email protected] in Russian and Nakh-Dagestanian, LANGELIN. The analysis of morphosyntactic variations and change in a generative framework, particularly in the history of Tupí-Guaraní languages spoken in the South American University of Campinas Rößler, Eva-Maria lowlands; the description, creation of text corpora and multi-media archives on [email protected] endangered, indigenous languages, specifically of Aché, a TG contact variety spoken in Paraguay. The description and documentation of underdescribed languages of in a University of Campinas Silva, Glauber Romling generative framework; the development of methodologies for elaborating [email protected] pedagogical materials for indigenous schools. Language variation and change, particularly in varieties of English; sociolinguistics; University of Newcastle Thorburn, Jennifer language attitudes and use in minority language communities; language contact; [email protected] language maintenance and revitalisation; North American Aboriginal languages. University of Edinburgh The architecture and evolution of the language faculty, syntactic change, the history Truswell, Robert [email protected] of English and French, event structure, locality theory, scope and binding, quantitative syntactic research, and comparative cognitive science. Phonological variation and change in English and other languages. I am interested in how language external factors drive variation within limits set by internal University of Newcastle Turton, Danielle structural factors. My research uses novel methods, such as ultrasound tongue [email protected] imaging, large speech corpora and quantitative methods, to investigate how synchronic variation can help us diagnose diachronic change. My research is in syntax, the theory of language variation and change (both in syntax and other areas), and the use of quantitative data to explore these issues. University of Newcastle Wallenberg, Joel My work in syntactic change has involved developing and using various parsed [email protected] corpora (). I also have a growing interest in gender effects on statistical patterns of variation.

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Name Affiliation and email address Research Interests Mentors Universities of Trieste, York The syntax of the Noun Phrase in synchronic and diachronic perspective. History of Crisma, Paola [email protected], English with the use of parsed corpora. Language acquisition. Comparative [email protected] grammar of Germanic and Romance. Syntax and syntactic change in a generative framework, particularly in Brazilian University of Campinas Cyrino, Sonia Portuguese and other Romance languages; null objects, clitics, DPs, argument [email protected] structure, verb movement. The application of Machine Learning to Computational Linguistics, with a particular University of York Kazakov, Dimitar focus on the acquisition of linguistic models from unannotated corpora. I also work [email protected] on agent simulations of the benefits of language in an evolutionary context. University of York Comparative syntax, Parameter theory, Syntax-Reference mapping, Historical Longobardi, Giuseppe [email protected] reconstruction and phylogenetic linguistics. My research addresses the question of which architectures of the grammar and its interface are best-suited to studying markedness and its positional distribution; aims University of Campinas to treat these questions within a multidisciplinary approach, integrating the Sandalo, Filomena [email protected] methodology of behavioral experiments, acoustic analysis, and computational modeling in concert with theoretical development. Morphology and phonology theory.

Organizers Comparative and diachronic parametric syntax, with a special focus on Portuguese University of Campinas and the factors that led to syntactic change in Brazil and in , respectively Galves, Charlotte [email protected] contact and phonological change. My current work crucially relies on the construction and exploitation of large annotated corpora. The analysis of syntactic variation and change in a generative framework, University of York particularly in the history of English and other ; the statistical Pintzuk, Susan [email protected] analysis of patterns of variation and change; the creation and exploitation of parsed corpora.

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