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.
July 2025
ISLA 2026, a conference on isolate languages and small families in Ghent. Deadline Oct 15 - send us an abstract!
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.
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.