Lucy Seki

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Lucy Seki is a Brazilian linguist specializing in indigenous languages of the Americas. She is the author of a highly-regarded grammar of the Kamayurá language.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Publications 2.1 Books 2.2 Papers

[edit] Biography

Lucy Seki has a Masters and Ph. D. in linguistics at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. She is also a Bachelor in history by the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and did post-Doctorate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is presently a full professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

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• Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu. 482 pages + 17 color photo album Editora UNICAMP and São Paulo State Official Press (2000, in Portuguese). ISBN 85-268-0498-7.

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• 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).