Eva-Maria Roessler (BE1F-BC0A-1EEE)

Curriculum Vitae

Eva-Maria Roessler

Eva-Maria Roessler holds a doctoral degree in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil), a master's degree in Linguistics (Unicamp, 2008) and a degree in Anthropology, Latin American Studies and Linguistics from the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin, 2004). She was also an associate researcher in the area of endangered language documentation at the Goethe University of Frankfurt Main/Germany, linked to the ALSP project: Aché Language Studies Project (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation - DoBeS Program, 2008-2014). She currently works as a junior researcher at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. The position funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal), which is associated to the “Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics” Research Group at the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM). She works mainly in the following areas: documentary linguistics, morphology, syntax, phonology, generative linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, contact linguistics, Tupi-Guarani languages, indigenous languages, indigenous rights, indigenous education .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Eva-Maria Roessler

Citation names

Roessler, Eva-Maria
ROESSLER, E. M.
Rößler, Eva-Maria
Rößler, E. M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BE1F-BC0A-1EEE

Websites

http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/researchers/94/en (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Guarani	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/09/28 Concluded	Linguistics (Doctor) Major in Linguistics Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Brazil "Syntactic Effects of Inflectional Morphology Restructuring in Aché — On Language Change and Language Contact in Tupi-Guarani Subgroup-1" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/08/01 Concluded	Linguistics (Master) Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Brazil "Aspectos da Gramâtica Achê. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Linguistics
2004/12/31 Concluded	Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics (Bachelor) Freie Universität Berlin Lateinamerika-Institut, Germany	Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Portugal
2009/01/01 - 2018/09/28	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Brazil

2008/04/01 - 2014/04/01	Principal Investigator (Research)	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2012/04/01 - 2014/04/01	ALSP – Aché Language Studies Project Project II / 83440 Other Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Germany	VolkswagenStiftung Concluded
2008/04/01 - 2012/04/01	ADOP – Aché Language Documentation Project II / 83440 Other Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Germany	VolkswagenStiftung Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/08/01 - 2028/08/01	"On the Nature of *pro and AGREE in Aché and Guaraní — A Text-based Study of Null Argument Licensing and Macro-Parametric Language Change" 2021.03912.CEECIND/CP1664/CT0026 Post-doc Fellow Universidade do Minho Escola de Letras Artes e Ciências Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/01 - Current	Guaraché - A Tupí-Guaraní Language in Formation 00000000000 main researcher in linguistics	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Null Object Licensing in Guarani: A Person Split Pro-Drop Account". In Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective, edited by Barbosa, Pilar; Flores, Cristina, 82-111. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publisher, 2025. In press Irimia, Monica Alexandrina (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia); Roessler, Eva-Maria. Corresponding author: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia). "DOM and other object-marking strategies: More on the problem of complex licensers.". In Angles of Object Agreement, edited by Nevins, Andrew; Peti-Stantic, Anita; de Vos, Mark, 241-262. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2022. Published
Conference paper	Roessler, Eva-Maria; Hauck, Jan David. "From Code-Mixing to Language Fusion: A Case Study of Negation in Guaraché (Eastern Paraguay)". Paper presented in Workshop on theoretical dimensions of Code-Switching in Bilingual Communities, Going Romance (GoRo), Braga, 2024. Roessler, Eva-Maria; Pikygi Torales, Andres. "Desarrollo ortográfico colaborativa en la comunidad Aché (Paraguay oriental)". Paper presented in II Congreso Paraguayo de Lingüística Aplicada, Asunción, 2024. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "From Person-Split to Radical Pro-Drop: Observing contact-induced grammatical change in Tupi-Guarani Subgroup-1". Paper presented in workshop on "Formal approaches to minority, minorized or less studied languages in contact situations", appended to the conference RALFE 2024, 2024. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "O projeto ADOP: Documentando o Contínuo Linguistico Aché-Guaraní-Guaraché (Paraguay),". Paper presented in Seminário Doutoral (CEHUM, ELACH) University of Minho, Braga, 2024. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Null Object Licensing in Guaraní - A Person-Split Pro-Drop Account". Paper presented in Null Objects in a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective, Braga, 2021. Irimia, Monica Alexandrina; Roessler, Eva-Maria. "DOM and other Object Marking Strategies - How many syntactic probes?". Paper presented in Object Agreement Across Barriers 2019; 16-17 September 2019, University of Zagreb, Zagreb Croatia, Zagreb, 2019. Under revision Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Argumentos Nulos em Lingua Tupi-Guarani - Algumas Observações sobre o Paramêtro de Sujeito Nulo.". Paper presented in Colloquio de Pesquisa TLE - CEHUM, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 2019. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Concordância e Argumentos Nulos em Línguas Tupi-Guaraní – Algumas Observações sobre o Parâmetro de Sujeito Nulo". Paper presented in Coloquios de Sintaxe, Acquisição e Mudança do FORMA - IEL, Campinas, 2018. Roessler, Eva-Maria; Rehnfeldt, Marilin. "Una Experiencia de Documentación Lingüística de Lenguas Indígenas del Paraguay por los propios hablantes (DOLLIP)". Paper presented in Curso de formación docente indígena, DGEEI, del Ministerio de Educación del Paraguay., Asunción, 2017. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "On Differential Object Marking, Object Scrambling in Aché and the Guaraní Cluster: Discussing Grammar Change for Tupi-Guaraní Subgroup-1.". Paper presented in Workshop: Estudos em Teoria da Gramática, Campinas, 2015. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "La Marcación de Objectos Directos en Guaraní y Aché". Paper presented in Abertura del Lab-DELCI (Universidad Católica de Asunción, UCA), Asunción, 2014. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "On Null-Arguments in Aché and Guaraní". Paper presented in CILLA VI - 6th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Panel 6A - Syntax (Austin University), Austin / Texas, 2013. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Syntactic Change and Morphological Restructuring in Aché". Paper presented in Paper presented at: Field Linguistic Talk Series (Rochester University), Rochester, 2013. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "A Study on Language Change in Aché". Paper presented in Symposium on Historical Variation by Contact among Tupí Languages - 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, 2012. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Estudando Mudança Linguística na Língua Achê". Paper presented in Paper presented at: Seminário Área de Línguas Indígenas – CELCAM – IEL – UNICAMP, Campinas, 2012. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "The Aché Language of Eastern Paraguay - Describing Phenomena of Language Change and possible Language Contact.". Paper presented in Paper presented at DoBeS Workshop; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 2010. Roessler, Eva-Maria; Thompson, Warren. "First Steps in Linguistic Training of Indigenous Researchers in Paraguay - On the DOLLIP Program of the Ministry of Education". Paper presented in Paper presented at DoBeS Workshop - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 2010. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Documentación de Lenguas en Peligro de Extinción". Paper presented in Talk at the Ministerio de Educación y Cultural del Paraguay (MEC, DGEEI), Asunción, 2009. Roessler, Eva-Maria; Hauck, Jan David. "Documenting Aché in Eastern Paraguay: A South American Contact Language?". Paper presented in 3L Lyon Summer School, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 2008.
Conference poster	Roessler, Eva-Maria. "On Object Scrambling in Aché and the Guaraní Cluster - Discussing Morphological Richness and Syntactic Change in Tupí-Guaraní". Paper presented in ECR Workshop - The New Historical Linguistics and the World of Annotated Corpora (Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil), 2015.
Journal article	Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Differential object marking and object scrambling in the Guaraní language cluster". Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 42 1 (2019): 31-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.00028.roe. Published • 10.1075/li.00028.roe Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Inflectional morphology restructuring in ache - discussing grammatical change and language contact in tupí-guaraní subgroup - 1". Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 10 2 (2015): 371-393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-81222015000200009. Published • 10.1590/1981-81222015000200009
Online resource	Roessler, Eva-Maria; Hauck, Jan David; Thompson, Warren. A Multimedia Documentation and Linguistic Corpus on the Aché Language. 2010. http://dobes.mpi.nl/projects/ache/.
Thesis / Dissertation	Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Syntactic Effects of Inflectional Morphology Restructuring in Aché – On Language Change and Language Contact in Tupí-Guarani Subgroup 1". PhD, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, 2018. Roessler, Eva-Maria. "Aspectos da Gramâtica Achê". Master, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, 2008.

Activities

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2013/04/02 - 2013/04/05	Current Tendencies and Potentials in Language Documentation	University of Campinas

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2005 - 2021	Consulting for Educational Program in Aché communities in Paraguay: Bilingual and Intercultural School Program in Indigenous Communities (Paraguay, Alto Paraná)	Area Escolar Indígenas; Entia: Aché (Escuelas Indigenas Comunitárias), Paraguay
2009 - 2013	Consulting at the Ministry of Education and Culture (Republic of Paraguay) Program for Teacher Training and Native Language Education	Departamento de Educación Escolar Indigena (DGEEI) Ministerio de Educación (MEC), Paraguay