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 the languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region, in southern Amazonia, and what linguistics can tell us about 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

january 2026

The long-awaited three-volume book on negation in the world's languages has been published by LSP, with my chapter on negation in Panará.

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.

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:

16-18 april 2026

Curriculum design in language revitalization contexts: a case study of Mỹky, a polysynthetic Amazonian isolate language, with Ares Llop (UOC) and Anna Paradís (Oxford). 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). University of Cambridge.

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.

10 march 2026

Per què cal salvar una llengua? Centre cívic Casa Golferichs. Barcelona.

27 january 2026

Polysynthesis and vowel lengthening in the Mỹky verb complex. Grote Taaldag 2026. Utrecht 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.

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