Lines of research

Portuguese Philology

This line is dedicated to the investigation of written texts through different fields: Paleography, Codicology, Material Bibliography, Diplomatics, Textual Criticism, Digital Humanities. The researchers aim to describe, identify and edit texts in order to achieve a reliable basis for philological studies and for the constitution of corpora in Portuguese.

Advisors:

Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida
Marcelo Módolo
Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
Phablo Roberto Marchis Fachin
Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto
Vanessa Martins do Monte
​​​​​​​Verena Kewitz

Grammars of Portuguese and Contact Languages

This line is dedicated to the investigation of grammar (Phonology, Morphology and Syntax) of Portuguese and Contact Languages.

Advisors:

Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman
Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
Marcelo Módolo
Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira
​​​​​​​Maria Célia Lima-Hernandes

Portuguese History and Historiography

This line has two main axes of investigation: the study of the Portuguese language through a diachronic or historical point of view and the study of the History of Linguistic Ideas.

Advisors:

Maria Aparecida Corrêa Ribeiro Torres Morais
Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
Marilza de Oliveira
Marli Quadros Leite
Valéria Gil Condé
​​​​​​​Verena Kewitz

Portuguese Lexicon

This line encompasses researches that assume the lexicon as its focus, considering it in etymological, morphological, semantic and discursive perspectives. Its several projects aim at describing and analyzing lexicon though historical, dialetological, neological and stylistical point of views and at producing lexicographical and terminological works. 

Advisors:

Beatriz Daruj Gil
Elis de Almeida Cardoso Caretta
Ieda Maria Alves
Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida
Mariangela de Araujo
Mário Eduardo Viaro
Patrícia Carvalhinhos

Portuguese Applied Linguistics

This lines conducts transdisciplinary research on grammatical, textual and discursive procedures in first and second language teaching in educational contexts (initial teacher education and continuing professional development).

Advisors:

Manoel Luiz Gonçalves Corrêa
Maria Helena da Nóbrega
Maria Inês Batista Campos
Norma Seltzer Goldstein
Rosane de Sá Amado
Waldemar Ferreira Netto
Zilda Gaspar Oliveira de Aquino

Textual Linguistics and Discourse Theory

This line draws upon distinct theoretical and methodological approaches to study the processes of oral and written texts constitution, as well as the configuration of discourses in different social fields. 

Advisors:

Luiz Antônio da Silva
Maria Lúcia da Cunha Victório de Oliveira Andrade
Marli Quadros Leite
Paulo Roberto Gonçalves-Segundo
Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo
Valdir Heitor Barzotto
Zilda Gaspar Oliveira de Aquino