I am a Catalan linguist who studies Amazonian languages, with a focus on Panará (Jê family) and Mỹky (isolated). 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.
I have an MA in linguistics from Paris VII (Université Denis Diderot) and a double BA in translation and in linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona.
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.
June 2025
The special issue on finiteness in indigenous languages of lowland South America, co-edited with Kim Groothuis and Karin Vivanco, is now live at Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos in its rolling publication format.
December 2024
New paper on Cyclic Agree and Mẽbêngôkre published at the proceedings of the 2023 Chicago Linguistic Society conference.
12-16 august 2025
A terminologia de cores na língua Mỹky: diacronia e atualização (with Sara Larios); The interaction of negation and evidentiality: a case study in Mỹky (with Héloïse Calame). Amazônicas x. Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil.
23-26 june 2025
Reconstructing changes in verbal synthesis without written records (with Elisabeth Kerr). 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.
28-29 march
Grammaticalized sex indexicality as interlocutor exponence in Mỹky. Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes (CHAMP) 3. Pompeu Fabra University, Catalonia.
20-21 january 2025
What voices and sounds can tell us about the history of Guaporé-Mamoré indigenous nations. The population history of the Bolivian tropical lowlands: towards a multi-disciplinary synthesis. Leiden University, the Netherlands.