Education
Meira holds a Bachelor and a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics Theory and Analysis at Rice University.
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Career
He has worked on the classification of the Cariban language family, and has collected primary linguistic data from speakers of 14 Cariban languages and 5 non-Cariban languages. His doctoral research was in collaboration with his supervisor Spike Gildea. In addition to his native Portuguese, Sérgio Meira is proficient in English, French, and Spanish, is moderately fluent in Esperanto, Italian, German, Dutch,, Romanian, and has a good command of Catalan, Russian, Latin, and other languages.
He is currently a researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
His research focuses on historical linguistics, fieldwork and description of the Cariban and Tupian language families, as well as language and cognition. His work helped in the development of the South American Phonological Inventory Database (SAPhon), the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), and Glottolog.
Sérgio Meira is one of eight academicians at the International Academy. He was appointed in 2007 by Brian Reynold Bishop, the seventh cifal and the academy"s president at that time.
Meira translated articles, including Rasmus Malling-Hansen"s obituary, from into English for the International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society.
He also did translation work on the Wikisource, but later suggested that his work be deleted because it would be considered copyright infringement. Sérgio Meira is one of Andrew Drummond"s correspondents who contributed to his knowledge of material prior to the writing of A Hand-Book of In late October 2006, Sérgio Meira started contributing to the Wikipedia. He is the main author of most of the featured articles
The Southern Cariban languages and the (2005).
Membership
Sérgio Meira is a member of the American Anthropological Association (American Automobile Association) and of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). He is also an active member of the discussion group, which unites most living volapükologists.
