prof. dr. W.L.M. (Leo) Wetzels

Office hours: by appointment 

Curriculum Vitae 

Research interests

Theoretical Phonology, Historical Phonology, Morphology/Phonology of the Romance Languages, Descriptive/Typological Linguistics/Indigenous Languages of South Americ.

Research websites

Amazionan Linguistics
Nasal Harmony Database (NasDat) (work in progress)

Teaching

(Linguistic) materials taught:

• Grammatical structure of French: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax
• Phonology and morphology of Italian
• Phonology and morphology of Portuguese
• Phonology and morphology of Spanish
• First-language acquisition (Phonology)
• Linguistic semantics
• The structure of (some) indigenous languages of Brazil: Nambikwara, Maku
• History of morphological/phonological theory (Structuralism, Classical Generative Phonology/Morphology, Natural Generative Phonology, Non-Linear Phonology/Non-Concatenative Morphology, Lexical Phonology and Morphology, Optimality Theory)
• Morphology-based typology of the indigenous languages of Brazil (Inflectional, Isolating, Agglutinative, Polysynthetic)