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 major in translation and in linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona.
December 2024
New paper on Cyclic Agree and Mẽbêngôkre published at the proceedings of the 2023 Chicago Linguistic Society conference.
May 2024
The proceedings of the 2024 LSA Meeting are published, with a paper on Mỹky interlocutor exponence.
January 2024
New publication: Quotative strategies in Panará, at LDD.
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.