About me

I am a Catalan linguist who studies Amazonian languages, in particular Panará (Jê family) and Mỹky (isolate). My research combines a descriptive and theoretical approach to language, in particular syntax and morphology, while also focusing on language documentation and revitalization.

I am a FWO senior postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. In my current project I investigate argument marking patterns in the languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region, in southern Amazonia, and its population history.

I have a PhD from the University of Groningen, with a dissertation on case and agreement in Panará. Since then, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley on an ELDP project to document Manoki, an endangered variety of Mỹky, and more recently at Ghent University, with an NWO Rubicon award, where I looked into the notion of subject and grammatical relations in Amazonian languages.

Updates

December 2025

New article on finiteness in indigenous languages of lowland South America, co-written with Kim Groothuis and Karin Vivanco, culminating our special issue at Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos.

November 2025

My article on the proceedings of the X Jornada de la Càtedra Pompeu Fabra is now published.
New article out on the use of vowel devoicing as prosodic augmentation in Mẽbêngôkre.

October 2025

ISLA 2026, a conference on isolate languages and small families, will take place in Ghent on March 2026.

August 2025

New article published about the role of traditional music in language revitalization, with a case study on Mỹky jakuli music and the katẽntiri reed pipes.

Upcoming and recent presentations:

18-19 march 2026

An anti-Swadesh look at the Juruena valley: charting the limits of lexical comparison across unrelated languages, with Sara Larios (Leiden). Isolated Languages Workshop (ISLA), Ghent University.

12 december 2025

Argument marking patterns as a proxy for social contact in the Guaporé-Mamoré region of Amazonia. BantUGent / ΔiaLing seminar talk. Ghent University.

1-3 october 2025

Traces of (language) contact in the Guaporé-Mamoré region of southern Amazonia, Fieldwork Forum; Interlocutor morphology in Mỹky, Syntax & Semantics Circle. Seminar talks at UC Berkeley.

12-16 august 2025

A terminologia de cores na língua Mỹky: diacronia e atualização, with Sara Larios (Leiden); The interaction of negation and evidentiality: a case study in Mỹky, with Héloïse Calame (Helsinki). Amazônicas x. Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil.

23-26 june 2025

Reconstructing changes in verbal synthesis without written records, with Elisabeth Kerr (UGent). DiGS 26. University of Oxford, UK.

26-28 may 2025

Mỹky ritual speech. Symposium on the Language of Ritual Discourse in South and Central America. Université Lyon 2, France.

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