Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Linguistics Contact Info chamorro@uga.edu Office: 235 Gilbert Hall 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. Other Affiliations: Department of Romance Languages Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas Research Research Interests: 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.
