About me
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 look at argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré region in southern Amazonia.
I have a PhD from the University of Groningen, with a dissertation on case and agreement in Panará (Jê family). Since then, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley on an ELDP project to document Manoki, an endangered variety of Mỹky (isolated), 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.
Updates
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.
October 2023
I have started a three-year senior postdoctoral research project, funded by FWO, at Ghent University.
June 2023
Amazónicas IX took place in Bogotá, with our symposium on subjecthood and grammatical relations.
Upcoming and recent presentations:
4-6 september 2024
Musical documentation as language documentation: the Mỹky jakuli. Language Documentation and Archiving 2024. Berlin.
21-24 august 2024
Triangulating language contact across families: linguistic and ethnomusicological data. 57th Annual Meeting of the SLE. Helsinki.
23-26 july 2024
The resurfacing of Robert Meader's Mỹky/Iranxe legacy materials. 2024 meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Barcelona, Catalonia.
10 june 2024
Revitalització de llengües indígenes a l'Amazònia: un equilibri entre descripció teòrica i documentació. ALLENCAM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Catalonia.
4-7 january 2024
Mỹky interlocutor exponence and the syntax of the speech act. LSA Annual meeting, NYC.
Internal and external pressures in Northern Jê morphosyntactic change. SSILA Annual Meeting, NYC.