Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change

Charlotte Galves studied in Paris (Paris IV- Sorbonne and Paris VIII-Vincennes) and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Campinas. She has published on the comparative syntax of European and Brazilian Portuguese from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. She coordinates the elaboration of the Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese. Her publications include Ensaios sobre as gramáticas do português and, as co-editor, África-Brasil: Caminhos da Lingua Portuguesa (Editora da Unicamp, 2001 and 2009). Sonia Cyrino studied at the University of Campinas where she is currently Associate Professor. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the University of Cambridge (UK). She is interested in syntactic theory and diachronic change in Brazilian Portuguese. Her publications include chapters in the ^iGoing Romance^r series (John Benjamins) and articles in Journal of Portuguese Linguistics and Iberia-International Journal on Theoretical Linguistics. Ruth Lopes joined the University of Campinas in 2006 where she is an Associate Professor. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her interests are language acquisition and the syntax-semantics interface. She is the co-authorm, with Carlost Mioto and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva of Novo Manual de Sintaxe (Insular, 2004). Filomena Sandalo has a PhD from the University of Pittsburg and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Campinas. She was a Post-Doctoral Associate from 1996 to 1998 and a visiting scholar in 2001 and 2010-2011 at MIT. She has published on the phonology and morphology of Portuguese and the native languages of South America. Her publications include A Grammar of Kadiwéu (MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 11, 1997). Juanito Avelar studied in Rio de Janeiro and Campinas and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Campinas. He has published on syntactic variation and on the history of Brazilian Portuguese. His publications include Ter, ser e estar: dinâmicas morfossintáticas no português brasileiro (RG Editora, 2009) and, co-edited with Fernão de Oliveira, Um gramático na história (Pontes, 2009).