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 postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. In my current project I investigate how different aspects of the speaker and the addressee, the interlocutors, are integrated into syntactic structure.

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 and an FWO postdoctoral grant.

Updates

october 2027

I'm now a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University, as part of an Ammodo award to Jenneke van der Wal.

june 2026

New article published at the Journal of Historical Syntax, on the syntactic reconstruction of Panará polysynthesis.

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.

Upcoming and recent presentations:

9-11 september 2026

The role of ethnograrchaeology in language documentation: a case study of pottery manufacture, with Peter Coutros (Ghent). Language Documentation and Archiving. Berlin, Germany.

27 may 2026

Historical implications of argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré area. Language and the Human Past seminar, Leiden University.

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.

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