Suzi Lima

University of Toronto

University of Toronto 🇨🇦

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Associate Chair, Undergraduate, Department of Linguistics

Associate Director (Mentorship), Black Research Network

Federal University of Roraima 🇧🇷

Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Letras [Literature and Linguistics, PPGL-UFRR]

Editorial roles:

Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne de Linguistique

Section Editor (Pragmatics and Semantics) of the Journal Language and Linguistics Compass.

Curriculum Vitae:

My CV (in English) can be found here.

My CV (in Portuguese) can be found here.

News

  • Recent presentations, Summer 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.
    • 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.