PeopleFaculty Acrisio Pires

Acrisio Pires, pires@umich.edu
Website: www.lsa.umich.edu/ling/pires

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Major research areas: syntax, computational linguistics/natural language processing and language change.

Dr. Pires' research has two main scopes. First, he is interested in syntactic theory (Principles & Parameters/Minimalism) and its connection with language change, morphology and semantics. Second, he is interested in computational linguistics/natural language processing, especially with respect to parsers, computational models of language and multilingual applications.