Profile
My PhD in Linguistics from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), with an internship at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, was financed by CNPq (2009). I am Associate Professor of the Departamento de Língua e Literaturas Vernáculas and Permanent Professor of the Graduate Program in Linguistics of the UFSC. I am a PQ-2 Productivity Fellow at CNPq. I was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFSC (biennium 2016-2018), president of the Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Nordeste GELNE (bienniums 2010-2012 and 2012-2014), vice-president of the Associação Brasileira de Linguística ABRALIN (biennium 2011-2013), coordinator of the GT de Sociolinguística of Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Linguística ANPOLL (bienniums 2010-2012 and 2012-2014) and Chief Editor of the Revista do GELNE (2014-2017). I coordinate since 2017, with Izete Lehmkuhl Coelho and Paulo Osório, the Projeto História do Português brasileiro – da Europa até a América of Associação de Linguística e Filologia da América Latina ALFAL. I currently work as a visiting professor at the Universität zu Köln/Germany, with a scholarship financed by the Humboldt Institute/CAPES.
Research
My research interests are centered in the disciplinary field of diachronic syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Based on statistical models for the empirical study of linguistic change and the theoretical assumptions of generative grammar, I have investigated morphosyntactic phenomena that reflect parametric changes in the grammar of Brazilian Portuguese in texts written in Brazil from the 18th to the 20th centuries. More specifically, I have worked on projects that focus on the study of the syntax of personal pronouns, and, more specifically, on the placement and position of clitics pronouns and the order and position of the grammatical subject. In my current research project (Humboldt Institute/CAPES-process number 88881.145464/2017-01 and CNPq-process 310094/2017-8) I investigate the correlation between changes in the syntax of clitics pronouns and the structural position of the subject in 19th-century Brazilian writing, seeking arguments for the hypothesis that in this period there is competition between the grammars of Brazilian Portuguese (PB), European Portuguese (PE) and Classical Portuguese (PCl).