Associate Professor Pilar Chamorro's research focuses on the semantic and pragmatic contribution of temporal, aspectual, and modal expressions across languages. She is also interested in the semantics of plurals, the mass/count distinction, and quantification. She has done fieldwork on Spanish, Galician and Portuguese (Romance) since 2007, and on Malayalam (Dravidian) since 2013. Since 2015, she has been doing fieldwork on Tenetehára (Tupi-Guarani) in Brazil. She is also involved in the documentation and preservation of endangered languages of Brazil as a member of the Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas (LALI) at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Research Areas of Interest: Language Documentation Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis Semantics Specific Research Areas: Semantics, Pragmatics, Romance languages, Tenetehára Grants: 2017 – 2018. UGA-FAPEMIG Seed Grant; Project: Language Documentation and Cultural and Linguistic Cooperation with the Tenetehára Communities, with Fábio B. Duarte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Selected Publications Selected Publications: Chamorro, Pilar and Fábio B. Duarte. 2020. On the Semantic Properties of Mass and Count Nouns in Tenetehára. Journal of Linguistic Variation, 20(2). 366 – 381. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00027.cha Chamorro, Pilar. 2020. Past temporal reference and remoteness distinctions in Guajajára. International Journal of American Linguistics 86(3). 331 – 365. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708831 Fernández, Pilar C. and Lindsey Antonini. 2017. Quantification in Malayalam. In Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Languages. Eds. Edward Keenan and Denis Paperno. Switzerland: Springer, vol. II, 453 – 515. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44330-0_9 Amengual, Mark and Pilar Chamorro. 2015. The effects of language dominance in the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel contrasts. Phonetica 72(4). 207 – 236. https://doi.org/10.1159/000439406 Awards, Honors and Recognitions Awards and Special Recognitions: 2017. Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science Top Cited Paper Impact Factor Award to Mark Amengual and Pilar Chamorro. 2015. The effects of language dominance in the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel contrasts. Phonetica, 72(4), 207 – 236. Courses Taught Courses Taught: SPAN(LING) 3050 LING 4160/6160 LING 4710/6710 LING 8080 LING 8710 ANTH(LING) 8880 LING 4880/6880
