Geraldo Calábria Lapenda (December 6, 1925, in
Nazaré da Mata
Nazaré da Mata is a city located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Located at 62 km from Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco. It has an estimated ( IBGE 2020) population of 32,573 people, and it is well known as the town of '' Marac ...
– December 19, 2004, in
Recife
That it may shine on all ( Matthew 5:15)
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) was a Brazilian philologist and university professor.
Lapenda is known for his extensive work on the
indigenous languages of South America
The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity, but, as the number of speakers of Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous languages is ...
. He spent decades teaching at the
Federal University of Pernambuco
Federal University of Pernambuco ( pt, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE) is a public university in Recife, Brazil, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. , UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 ...
.
Bibliography
* História da Literatura Latina – apreciacione da obra del Cônego Pedrosa (1948)
* O Condicional no Sistema Verbal Latino (1952)
* Nomes Compostos da Língua Grega (1952)
* Português Comercial – apreciacione sobre o trabalho del Prof. Adauto Pontes (1952)
*
Palestra e Ginásio' (1953)
*
Etimologia da Palavra "Tupã"'
[Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendaju (en portugués) - Colección Geraldo Lapenda]
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* ''Morfologia Histórica do Italiano'' (1954)
* ''O Indo-europeu'' (1954)
*
Os Dialetos da Itália
' (1956)
*
O Substantivo Italiano
' (1959)
*
O Dialeto Xucuru
'
Perfil da Língua Yathê
'
Universidade é reunião de valores
' (1980)
* ''Maracutaias'' (1990)
* ''Quebra-cabeças'' (1990)
* ''Pseudo-etimologias'' (1990).
Poetry
Por causa d'um colarinho
(1942)
Xe remirekó
(1952)
Ne te deiciant tribulationes
(1955)
HOMEMULHER
(1978)
References
1925 births
2004 deaths
Linguists of indigenous languages of the Americas
Linguists from Brazil
People from Pernambuco
20th-century linguists
Academic staff of the Federal University of Pernambuco
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