Fábio Bonfim Duarte is a Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He works with Native American Languages, spoken in The Amazonian region, and with Bantu Languages, spoken in Mozambique. He is a field-working linguist with formal training in theoretical linguistics and language documentation & revitalization. He conducts research on the Guajajara, Tembé, Ka’apor, Gavião Pykobye, Maxacali, Tucano, Apãniekra, Apinajé, Terena among other languages. He has also been focusing on the analysis of the Changana Language, spoken in Mozambique.  He has worked to build collaborations with the communities of speakers who are working to document, promote, and revitalize these languages. In addition to language documentation and revitalization initiatives, Duarte’s research is focused on variation across human languages, specifically in the domains of syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure).  Find out more…