Marcus Maia

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Linguistics, Faculty Member

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1. Developed the fields of Language Processing and Experimental Syntax in Brazil
2. Presented linguistic ideas in a popular book: Manual de Linguística (MEC/UNESCO)
3. Published on comprehension of interrogative, relative clauses, topic constructions, structural ambiguity, PP embedding in Brazilian Portuguese
4. Worked extensively on Brazilian Indigenous languages
5. Extended experimental approaches to fieldwork and education
6. Co-organized a conference and school of high studies on recursion and is one of the coeditors of the book Recursion across Domains (Amaral, Luiz; MAIA, Marcus; Nevins, Andrew; Roeper, Tom (Orgs.) . Recursion Across Domains. 1. ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 409p ).
Supervisors: Yonne Leite, Joseph Aoun, Maryellen McDonald, Janet Dean Fodor

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The Challenge of New Intercultural Maps: Indigenous Language Revitalization Between Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Handbook of the Changing World Language Map

This chapter describes and critically reflects on an ongoing language revitalization project for ... more This chapter describes and critically reflects on an ongoing language revitalization project for Kaingang, an endangered Jê language spoken by approximately 20,000 people in southern Brazil. Stemming from collaboration between indigenous and nonindigenous academics from Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Kaingang revitalization project is at once local and global. Fundamental to the project is the extent to which successful Māori language educational initiatives – such as Te Kohanga Reo (Māori language nest) – can be adapted to a Kaingang context. As with early language revitalization efforts by Māori educators and language activists, the Kaingang project is starting at the grassroots level. Later, and similar to the Māori context, it is envisaged that the preschool language nest in Nonoai will set an important example and encourage members of other villages to pass down their valuable knowledge of Kaingang language and culture to preschool children. This project has the potential to inspire speakers of other minority languages in Brazil. Family and community language policies can be shared and adapted to increase intergenerational transmission and safeguard endangered languages. However, collaborative projects such as this one also come with challenges and require critical reflection. Of utmost importance, such projects must operate with integrity and center around the indigenous minority people/ language within the project. Ideological reflections are therefore critical to joint revitalization projects, and the chapter explores those questions further.

The māori language nest program: voices of language and culture revitalization in Aotearoa, New Zealand

This article features interviews with five Māori teachers who have been directly involved with M... more This article features interviews with five Māori teachers who have been directly involved with Māori education for many years. They present their ideas and practices concerning both Kohanga Reo, the successful language nest program which has been key for the revitalization and regeneration of the Māori language, in New Zealand, and Kura Kaupapa, the Māori primary and secondary education program. K e y w o r d s : Māori language nest, language endangerment, language revitalization. R e s u m o : Este artigo apresenta entrevistas com cinco professores Māori que tem estado diretamente envolvidos com a educacao Māori por muitos anos. Eles apresentam suas ideias e praticas sobre Kohanga Reo, o programa bem sucedido de ninho de lingua, que tem sido fundamental para a revitalizacao e regeneracao da lingua Māori, na Nova Zelândia e tambem sobre Kura Kaupapa, o programa Māori de educacao primaria e secundaria. P a l a v r a s - c h a v e : ninho de lingua Māori, linguas ameacadas, revital...

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