Andrés Pablo Salanova
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 434
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1759
E-mail: asalanov@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
2007 – PhD, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 – MA, Linguistics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
1997 – BA, Mathematics, Brown University
Fields of interest
- Descriptive linguistics (of Amerindian languages)
- Semantics
- Morphosyntax
Ongoing research
The structure and interpretation of nominalizations in Mebengokre (Gê language from the brazilian Amazon).
Courses taught
- LIN3328 Morphology
- LIN2700 Les langues du monde
- LIN4370/7911 Field methods
- LIN7931 Topics in theoretical linguistics
Selected publications
Salanova, A. P. (forthcoming) Review of Sakel, J., A grammar of Moseten. International Journal of American Linguistics 73.
Salanova, A. P. & M. A. Reis Silva (forthcoming) Mebengokre. In S. Auroux, ed. Encyclopédie des sciences du langage. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Salanova, A. P. (forthcoming) A concatenative view of subtractive morphology. In C. Schmitt & A. P. Salanova, eds. Papers in formal linguistics: collected papers from two South American workshops. MIT Working papers in Linguistics 54.
Salanova, A. P. (2007) Review of Dixon, R.M.W., The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia. International Journal of American Linguistics 73 (1).
Salanova, A. P. (2006) The sense of Mebengokre nominalizations. In A. Fujimori, A & M. A. Reis Silva, eds. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, Vancouver, April 2006. UBC Working papers in linguistics.