I am an Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. I am also a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Letras [Literature and Linguistics] at the Federal University of Roraima (PPGL-UFRR).
My work integrates theoretical and experimental research in the field of cross-linguistic semantics. I investigate how semantic representations in different domains are encoded in linguistic constructions, and how this encoding varies across languages. Most of my research has focused on the conceptual domain of counting and measuring.
I am Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne de Linguistique and Section Editor (Pragmatics and Semantics) of the Journal Language and Linguistics Compass.
My CV (in English) can be found here.
My CV (in Portuguese) can be found here.
Recent News:
- Presentations, Summer 2026:
- Akinbo, Samuel and Suzi Lima. Documenting Cultural Memory through Food in Yorùbá Culture. Talk presented at the 10th Annual Lagos Studies Association (Session: African Oral Art Epistemologies: Indigenous Knowledge, Memory and Identities). Trinity University (Sabo/Yaba, Lagos). June 16-20, 2026.
- Keith-Hill, Colin, Patrick Kinchsular, Mikayla Oliver, Siena Weingartz, Vera Hohaus, Suzi Lima. On the Absence of Superlative Morphology in EXCEED-Type Languages. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57), May 21-23, 2026.
- Andrade, Josué Barbosa, Ana Carolina da Silva Rodrigues, Isabella Coutinho Costa and Suzi Lima. Numeral constructions in Ingarikó.
- Talk presented at the 73rd Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. University of Calgary, 17-19 June, 2026.
- Talk presented at the XV Workshop on Formal Linguistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 25-29 May, 2026.
Suzi Lima 