Pilar Chamorro Fernández

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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.

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:

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 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:
SPAN(LING) 3050
LING 4160/6160
LING 4710/6710
LING 8080
LING 8710
ANTH(LING) 8880
LING 4880/6880
Events featuring Pilar Chamorro Fernández
Colloquium Flyer
February 1

Spring 2019 Colloquium - Dr. Pilar Chamorro

Miller Learning Center Room 245

Dr. Pilar Chamorro will be presenting “Temporal reference and remoteness distinctions in Guajajára.”

Articles Featuring Pilar Chamorro Fernández
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Dr. Pilar Chamorro teaches course at University of Santiago de Compostela

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Professor, Dr. Pilar Chamorro, taught a course titled: "Linguistic Fieldwork and Amazonian Languages" at University of Santiago de Compostela May 20 - 21, 2019.

Photograph of Dr. Pilar Chamorro in front of fountain

Dr. Pilar Chamorro receives award in Phonetica

Dr. Pilar Chamorro has received the Top Cited Paper Impact Factor 2017 award in Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science. This award is for her paper entitled: 'The Effects of Language Dominance in the Perception and Production of…

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Dr. Pilar Chamorro researches Tenetehára in Brazil

Dr. Chamorro spent time this summer collecting data to investigate temporal reference in Tenetehára. She found that the language has a ‘graded past tense system’ with three degrees of remoteness and an evidentiality system that conflates temporal and source of…

Contact Information

chamorro@uga.edu
Office: 235 Gilbert Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

Other Information

Other Affiliations: Department of Romance Languages, Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas

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