Investigadores

Eva-Maria Roessler is an early career researcher associated to the LTE research group [Linguística Teórica e Experimental] at CEHUM. Her research interests are theoretical linguistics, formal grammar, comparative and diachronic syntax. She also conducts research in the field of endangered language documentation on indigenous languages in Paraguay and Brazil, focussing specifically on the Tupi-Guaraní language family. She also works on aspects of language contact, bilingualism, code-switching and language mixing.

Projetos

• 2012 - 2014 (Membro)

  ALSP – Aché Language Studies Project (2nd Phase DoBeS Project | Funding: DoBeS Program, Volkswagen Foundation)

  ALSP investigates language contact in history and as the result of present-day linguistic/cultural contact and change within the Aché indigenous communities in Paraguay, building upon the linguistic records documented during ADOP. ALSP aimes at the construction of (i) Annotated and Parsed Aché Text Corpora (ii) Parallel Elicitation Corpus of Tupí-Guaraní Subgroups-1 Languages + Several Aché Dialects, (iii) Comparative Lexical Collections on TG-SUB-1 and (iv) The Child Speech Corpus on Aché and Guaraché. Additionally, ALSP engages in interdisciplinary research involving the study of Aché cosmology (Warren Thompson/US) and ethno-botanic studies (Alberto Madroño/Spain). 
  Project Leaders: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert & Dr. Sebastian Drude (Goethe University Frankfurt Main)Main Researchers: Jan David Hauck, (Linguistic Anthropology; UCLA) & Eva-Maria Rößler (Linguistics, UNICAMP) Research Assistants: Warren Thompson, (Social Anthropology; University of Michigan) & Maria Luisa Freitas (Linguistics, UNICAMP).

• 2008 - 2012 (Membro)

  ADOP – Aché Language Documentation Project (1st Phase DoBeS Project | Funding: DoBeS Program, Volkswagen Foundation)

  ADOP is a major language documentation project aiming at the multimedia documentation of the indigenous language Aché, spoken by ca. 300 fully competent and 1600 semi speakers in Eastern Paraguay. ADOP collects diverse records on the language, linguistics practice and cultural knowledge. The project focuses on the traditional language of the communities in all its varieties. ADOP implemented the Aché Language Archive hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI, Nijmegen) retrievable at: www.mpi.nl/dobes/ache. Data includes audio and video recordings of mythology, life history narratives, cultural practices, procedural texts and traditional songs or wailing. Also included are basic language description (grammar sketch), lexical collections, images and photographic documentation alongside a comprehensive collection of so-called ‘legacy data’ contributed by several researchers and institutions that conducted research among the Aché before ADOP.
  
  Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert & Dr. Sebastian Drude (Goethe University Frankfurt Main)Main Researchers: Jan David Hauck, (Linguistic Anthropology; UCLA) & Eva-Maria Rößler (Linguistics, UNICAMP) Research Assistant: Warren Thompson, (Social Anthropology; University of Michigan)

Publicações

Artigos

• Roessler, Eva-Maria. 2015.  Inflectional Morphology Restructuring in Aché – Discussing Grammar Change and Language Contact. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Ciências Humanas. Belem do Pará; Brazil.

  RepositóriUM: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222015000200371&lng=en&tlng=en

Capítulos em livros

• ROESSLER, Eva-Maria. (2025) Null Object Licensing in Guaraní: A person-split pro-drop account. In: Pilar Barbosa and Cristina Flores (eds) Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic Perspective. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 82-111.
  (https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.19.04roe)

• IRIMIA, A. M., ROESSLER, E. M. (2022) DOM and other object marking strategies: More on the question of complex lincensers. In: Andrew Nevins, Anita Peti-Stantić, Mark de Vos, Jana Willer-Cold (eds) Angles of Object Agreement, [Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics] Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 241-262.

• Roessler, Eva-Maria. 2019. Differential Marking and Object Scrambling in the Guaraní Language Cluster. In:  Irimia, Monica Alexandrinha  and Pineda, Anna (eds) Differential objects and dative: A homophonous class?, International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 32–55.

Outras publicações

• in press (2018).  Syntactic Effects of Inflectional Morphology Restructuring in Aché — On Language Change and Language Contact in Tupi-Guarani Subgroup-1, PhD Thesis, Campinas University, Campinas, Brazil.

• Roessler, Eva-Maria; Hauck, Jan David; Thompson, Warren. 2010. A Multimedia Documentation and Linguistic Corpus of the Aché Language. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

  RepositóriUM: http://dobes.mpi.nl/projects/ache/

• 2008. Aspectos da Gramâtica Achê. MA Thesis, Campinas University, Brazil.

  RepositóriUM: http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:roessler-2008

Organização de eventos

• 2025/05/08 - 2025/05/09 | CEHUM, ELACH, Universidade do Minho

  1st Workshop on Endangered and Minoritized Languages

• 2013/04/02 - 2013/04/05 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Unicamp, Brasil

  Current Tendencies and Potentials in Language Documentation

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/503298906380251/

• 2004/04/08 - 2004/10/09 | Freie Universität e Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

  INDIGEGENWART: Indigene Realitäten im Südamerikanischen Tiefland

Participação em eventos

• Curso breve/Workshop (Por convite)

  ROESSLER, E.-M. From person-split to radical pro-drop, observing grammatical change in Tupi-Guarani subgroup-1, University of Minho, Braga, 26/Setembro, 2025

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  HAUCK, J.D.; ROESSLER, E.M. On the Emergence of Guaraché - A new mixed language in Paraguay. (Participação em Congresso) 1st Workshop on Endangered and Minoritized Languages, University of Minho, Braga, 8-9/Maio, 2025

• Colóquio/Congresso

  ROESSLER, E.-M; HAUCK, J.D., From Code-Mixing to language Fusion: A case study of negation in Guaraché (Eastern Paraguay). (Participação em Congresso) Workshop on theoretical approaches to code-switching in Romance, GoRo Going Romance, Universidade do Minho: Braga, 6 Dez. 2024.

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  ROESSLER, E. M.; PIKYGI TORALES, A. Desarrollo ortográfico colaborativo en la comunidad aché (Paraguay oriental). (Participação em Congresso) V Congreso Paraguayo de Lingüística Aplicada, UCA, Assunção, Paraguai, 18-21 Nov. 2024.

• Seminário (Por convite)

  ROESSLER, E. M.; O projeto ADOP documentando o continuum linguístico Aché - Guaraní - Guaraché. Apresentação em Seminário: Seminário Doutoral, CEHUM, ELACH, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, 3 de Julho, 2024.

• Colóquio/Congresso

  ROESSLER, E. M.; From Person-Split to Radical Pro-Drop: Observing contact-induced grammatical change in Tupi-Guarani Subgroup-1. (Participação em Congresso) Em: Workshop: Formal approaches to minority, minorized or less studied languages in contact situations. IKER; Research Center for Basque language and text; RALFE, Bayonne, França, 5 de Junho, 2024.

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  ROESSLER; E. M. O Aché do Paraguai, documentando uma língua ameríndia em perigo de extinção. Retiro de Verão do CEHUM, Universidade do Minho, no Museu Mogeiro da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 2023

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  ROESSLER, E. M. On Null Object Licensing in Guaraní – An Account of Person-Split Pro-Drop (Tupí-Guaraní Family, *Paraguay/Brazil), Participação em Conferência, Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2021

• Colóquio/Congresso

  ROESSLER, E-M.; IRIMIA. DOM and other object Marking Strategies - How many syntactic probes. (Conference Participation) Object Agreement Across Barriers Conference, Zagreb University, Croatia, 16-17 Setembro, 2019

• Seminário (Por convite)

  ROESSLER; E. M. A natureza de pro em línguas Guaraní e Achê Estudando Mudança e Diacronia na Família Linguística Tupi-Guarani. Apresentação no Seminário do LTE, Linguística teórica e experimental, Universidade do Minho, 07/01/2019

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  2018. Concordância e Argumentos Nulos em Línguas Tupi-Guarani – Algumas Observações sobre o Parâmetro de Sujeito Nulo. In: Coloquios de Sintaxe, Acquisição e Mudança do ForMA, IEL UNICAMP, Campinas/Brazil.

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  2017. (& Marilin Rehnfeldt) Una Experiencia de Documentación Lingüística de Lenguas Indígenas del Paraguay por los propios hablantes (DOLLIP) Curso de formación docente indígena, DGEEI, del Ministerio de Educación del Paraguay. Asunción/Paraguay.

• Curso breve/Workshop

  2015. On Differential Object Marking & Object Scrambling in Aché and the Guarani-cluster: Discussing Grammar Change for Tupi-Guarani Subgroup-1. Paper presented at: Workshop Estudos em Teoria da Gramática; Institute of Language Studies, Campinas University, Campinas/Brazil.

• Curso breve/Workshop

  2015. On Object Scrambling in Aché and the Guaraní cluster – Discussing Morphological Richness and Syntactic Change in Tupí-Guaraní. Poster presented at: ECR Workshop – The New Historical Linguistics and the World of Annotated Corpora. Campinas University, Campinas/Brazil.

• Colóquio/Congresso (Por convite)

  2014. La Marcación de Objectos Directos en Guaraní y Aché. Paper Presented at ‘Abertura LAB-Delci’. Universidad Católica de Asunción/ Paraguay.

• Colóquio/Congresso

  2014. (& Noel Gasparini & Swintha Danielsen). The Southern Clade of Tupi-Guarani Languages: Adpositional Issues. Paper Presented at: Amazonicas V, Belem do Pará/ Brazil.

• Colóquio/Congresso

  2013. (& Maria Luisa Freitas) On Null-Arguments in Aché and Guaraní. Paper presented at CILLA VI - 6th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Panel 6A - Syntax. Austin: Austin University /US.

• Seminário (Por convite)

  2013. Syntactic Change and Morphological Restructuring in Aché. Paper presented at: Field Linguistics Talk Series. Department of Linguistics. Rochester University / US.