Sérgio Meira
| Sérgio Meira | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sérgio Meira de Santa Cruz Oliveira December 31, 1968 Recife, Brazil |
| Residence | Netherlands |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Rice University |
| Awards | Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Fellowship, Rice University (1998) John W. Gardner Award, Rice University (1999) Mary R. Haas Book Award (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cariban languages, Anthropology |
| Institutions |
Rice University Radboud University Nijmegen Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Leiden University Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics KNAW |
| Thesis | A grammar of Tiriyo (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Spike Gildea |
Sérgio Meira (born December 31, 1968) is a Brazilian linguist who specializes in the Cariban and Tupian language families of lowland South America and in the Tiriyó language in particular. He has worked on the classification of the Cariban language family, and has collected primary linguistic data from speakers of 14 Cariban languages and 5 non-Cariban languages.
Meira holds a BA and a PhD in Linguistics Theory and Analysis at Rice University. His doctoral research was in collaboration with his supervisor Spike Gildea. Sérgio Meira is a member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).
In addition to his native Portuguese, Sérgio Meira is proficient in English,French, and Spanish, is moderately fluent in Esperanto,Italian, German, Dutch, Volapük,Romanian, and has a good command of Catalan, Russian, Latin, and other languages.
He is currently a researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on historical linguistics, fieldwork and description of the Cariban and Tupian language families, as well as language and cognition.
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