Lucy Seki (27 March 193923 June 2017) was a Brazilian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

specializing in

indigenous languages of the Americas The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples. Over a thousand of these languages are still used today, while many more are now e ...

. She authored a grammar of the

Kamayurá language The Kamayurá language (''Kamaiurá'' in Portuguese) belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family, and is spoken by the Kamayurá people of Brazil – who numbered about 600 individuals in 2014. There is speculation that as the indigenous peoples who ...

Biography

Lucy Seki had a

Master's A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

and Ph.D. in linguistics from the Patrice Lumumba University in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. She was also awarded a

Bachelor A bachelor is a man who is not and never has been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". (). Etymo ...

in history by the

Federal University of Minas Gerais The Federal University of Minas Gerais (, UFMG) is a federalIn the Brazilian Higher Education context, ''Federal'' does not mean ''collegiate'' (even though most Federal Universities in Brazil enjoy a similarly collegiate system), but it means ...

, and did post-doctorate studies at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

. She was a full professor at the

State University of Campinas The University of Campinas (), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated Research institute, researc ...

(UNICAMP), Brazil. In 2010, she was elected an honorary member of the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

for her outstanding contribution to the field.List of honorary members of the Linguistic Society of America
. Accessed on 2010-02-15.

Publications

Books

* '' Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu''. 482 pages + 17 color photo album Editora

UNICAMP The University of Campinas (), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated Research institute, researc ...

and

São Paulo State SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of ...

Official Press (2000, in Portuguese). .

Papers

* ''Kamaiurá (Tupi-Guarani) as an active-stative language.'' In D. L. Payne (ed.), ''Amazonian linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American languages,'' University of Texas Press (1990).

References

External links

Coleção Lucy Seki
papers by Lucy Seki at the Curt Nimuendaju Digital Library
Lucy Seki's profile
at Etnolinguistica.Org's Directory of South Americanists 1939 births 2017 deaths Ethnolinguists Linguists from Brazil People from Belo Horizonte Peoples' Friendship University of Russia alumni Academic staff of the State University of Campinas {{SouthAm-linguist-stub