Suzi Lima

Humanities and the Arts Linguistic structures

Suzi Lima is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Toronto.

Lima’s work integrates theoretical and experimental research in the field of cross-linguistic semantics. Lima investigate how semantic representations in different domains are encoded in linguistic constructions, and how this encoding varies across languages.

Most of Lima’s research has focused on the conceptual domain of counting and measuring. Lima’s research on this domain investigates how languages encode the distinction between objects and substances in their lexicon and in their grammar, and how operations of counting objects and measuring substances are expressed linguistically.

Projects

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Counting and measuring in African Languages Spoken in Toronto/Sociolinguistic survey of African languages spoken in Toronto (Connaught New Research Award)

This ongoing project involves both a description counting and measuring in some African languages spoken in Toronto as well as...

Researcher: Suzi Lima
Project Type: Project

African Humanities and the Arts Linguistic structures

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Counting and measuring in Indigenous languages spoken in Brazil

Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein. 2020. A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazil and its relevance for count/mass theories....

Researcher: Suzi Lima
Project Type: Journal Article

Humanities and the Arts Linguistic structures

More Researchers & Projects

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Gendering Racial Capitalism and the Black Heretical Tradition

The essay suggests that centering enslaved women whose commodified bodies and reproductive capacities were central to capital accumulation complicates the...