Lucy Seki is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian linguist

Linguistics

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 specializing in indigenous languages of the Americas

Indigenous languages of the Americas

Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language...

. She is the author of a highly-regarded grammar of the Kamayurá language

Kamayurá language

The Kamayurá language belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family , and is spoken by the Kamayurá people of Brazil – who numbered about 290 individuals as of the year 2004.-Vowels:-Consonants:...

.

Biography

Lucy Seki has a Masters and Ph. D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in linguistics at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow

Moscow

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. She is also a Bachelor in history

History

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 by the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and did post-Doctorate studies at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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. She is presently a full professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. In 2010, she was elected an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America

Linguistic Society of America

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 for her outstanding contribution to the field.

Books

• Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu
  Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu
  Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu, by Lucy Seki, is an authoritative and comprehensive description of Kamayurá, an indigenous language of Brazil....
  
  . 482 pages + 17 color photo album Editora UNICAMP and São Paulo State Official Press (2000, in Portuguese). ISBN 85-268-0498-7.

Papers

• Kamaiurá (Tupi-Guarani) as an active-stative language. In D. L. Payne (ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American languages, University of Texas Press (1990).

External links

• Coleção Lucy Seki: papers by Lucy Seki at the Curt Nimuendaju Digital Library
• Lucy Seki's profile at Etnolinguistica.Org's Directory of South Americanists