Alec Marantz (NYU) |
Alec Marantz is currently a professor of Linguistics and Psychology at New York University. Jointly with Morris Halle, Alec Marantz is one of the proponents of Distributed Morphology. He coauthored with Halle the seminal chapter “Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection”, which presents Distributed Morphology and its basic architecture to the scientific community. Marantz works mainly on morphology and syntax, and recently has also been involved in neurolinguistics, at the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab) at New York University, where he focuses on the study of word structure and MEG (magnetoencephalography) methods for functional neuroimaging. With an extensive list of very influential publications, he is a world-renowned researcher. |
Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros (UFRJ) |
Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros holds a PhD from the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). During his PhD studies, he was a visitor student at the New York University (2006). From 2008 to 2010, he has conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics at University of São Paulo (USP). He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at the University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of its Graduate Program in Linguistics. He works with linguistic theory and analysis from a generative perspective, particularly within the Distributed Morphology framework. His main research topics include morphosyntax, semantics, event and argument structure of verbs, tense, aspect, and the informational structure of sentences. |
Ana Paula Scher (USP/UFJF/CNPq) |
Ana Paula Scher has a B.A. in Languages by the University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) (1988), an M. A. in Linguistics by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (1996), a PhD in Linguistics by the same institution (2004), and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary (2006), University College London (2011-2012), University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (2017-2018), and currently at University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). She is a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), since 1998. She works in the Linguistics field, with a focus on Generative Theory, particularly within the Distributed Morphology framework. Additionally, she is one of the creators of the Brazilian Colloquium of Morphology (CBM), and leads the Grupo de Estudos em Morfologia Distribuída (GREMD). She was also one of the forerunners of Distributed Morphology in Brazil. Topics investigated by Scher include truncation and blending in Brazilian Portuguese, root suppletion in collective nouns, and evaluative morphology. She recently collaborated with other Brazilian researchers to organize a handbook of Distributed Morphology. |
Andrés Saab (UBA) |
Andrés Leandro Saab is an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires He was previously an associate professor at the National University of Comahue and at the University of Leiden. He has taught graduate courses locally and has also taught regular and short courses abroad, including at the University of the Republic (Uruguay), the State University of Campinas (Brazil), and the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). He is a member of the Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis, where he coordinates a study group on philosophy of language and linguistics, and is also a member of the Latin American Association of Linguistics and Philology (ALFAL), as well as co-founder of the Romania Nova Project, dedicated to the microvariation of Romance dialects in Latin America. His area of specialization is formal syntax and its connection with semantics and morphology.
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Aniela Improta França (NYU) |
Aniela França holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002), and completed internships at the Institute of Neurology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Stroke Outpatient Clinic of the Fluminense Federal University, and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab of the University of Maryland. She is currently a full professor in the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics at UFRJ. She is also a member of the university’s Advanced Neuroscience Program (PAN-CCS), and coordinates the Syntactic Access Lab (ACESIN), where she utilizes neuroscience methods to study language acquisition and processing. |
David Embick (UPenn) |
David Embick is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He coordinates the XMorph Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where he investigates lexical and morphological representation and processing. His research interests include syntactic and morphological theory, the syntax-morphology interface, the relationship between syntax and phonological form, argument structure, and the language in the brain. Embick has published a wide variety of articles and books, including The Morpheme: a theoretical introduction (2015) and Localism and Globalism in Morphology and Phonology (2010). His work has great relevance to the field of Distributed Morphology. |
Indaiá de Santana Bassani (UNIFESP) |
Indaiá de Santana Bassani is an associate professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Her research focuses on morphology and its interfaces, with a particular interest in psycholinguistics, language acquisition and language processing. She holds a PhD in Linguistics at the University of São Paulo completed a postdoctoral research program at New York University. Within the framework of Distributed Morphology, her main works investigate prefixal allomorphy in Brazilian Portuguese verbs, the integration of semantic content with roots, semantic compositionality, and the argument structure of verbs. Together with Ana Paula Scher and Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin, she has recently organized a handbook of Distributed Morphology (2022). |
Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo (UNICAMP) |
Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo is a full professor in the Linguistics Department at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at UNICAMP. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh and has conducted post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her research applies the assumptions of Generative Linguistics to the fields of phonology and morphology. More specifically, her most recent research includes the analysis of phenomena such as vowel harmony, diphthongs, accent, intonation, person feature hierarchy, clitics, and numeral classifiers. She is also involved in the description, documentation, and analysis of Brazilian indigenous languages. |
Vitor Augusto Nóbrega |
Vitor Nóbrega was awarded a MA (2014) and a PhD (2018) in General Linguistics and Semiotics from the University of São Paulo. He was appointed as postdoctoral research fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2019-2020), at the University of São Paulo (2020-2022), and more recently as DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg. His areas of expertise are morphology and syntax, with works focusing on concatenative and non-concatenative word formation processes. His main research interests are grammatical primitives, compounding, derivational morphology, blending, Romance binominal DPs, definiteness agreement and expressivity in morphology. |
