Morphology
My research in morphology focuses on size morphology, diminutives and augmentatives, with particular attention to Brazilian Portuguese. I investigate how these formations interact with grammatical gender, theme vowels, the size and lexical category of the base, phonological processes, and interpretive restrictions.
Current project
Size morphology
Full-length manuscript in preparation
This project develops a unified account of Brazilian Portuguese size morphology. Working within Distributed Morphology, I argue that apparently simple size morphemes are internally complex and may combine with bases in different structural configurations. The analysis connects the distinction between root- and word-based formation to patterns involving gender, theme vowels, phonological opacity, and idiomatic interpretation.
Publications and proceedings
Contextual markedness in Brazilian Portuguese size morphology
Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 112–119 · 2025
A complete list of my publications and presentations is available in my CV.