Conference presentations
2023
Proto-Piaroa-Mako Genitive Classifiers: Reconstruction and Implications. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Athens, Greece. August 29 – September 1 (Upcoming)
Piaroa Voiceless Stops as Partial Undergoers of Nasal Harmony. 2023 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic. 7-11 August (with Matthew Faytak, Tyler Schnoor, Myriam Lapierre, Lev Michael) (Upcoming)
How “Isolate” Can a Language Be? The Case of Arutani from Northeast Amazonia. Amazonicas IX. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 5-9 June (with Thiago Chacon) (Upcoming)
Grammatical Animacy in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), University of California at Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. 14-15 April
Diminutive Marking in Sapé. 2023 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Online. 20-22 January
2021
Indigenous Multilingualism in the Orinoco-Guiana Region through the Lens of Sáliban. Panel “Indigenous Multilingualism in Lowland South America”, 2021 Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). University of Virginia (Online). June 21-July 2
Genitive Classifiers in Piaroa-Mako. Amazonicas VIII. Goiás & Brasília, Brazil. May 31-June 4
Collaboration, communities, and relationship-building: Pushing the conversation forward. Talk Story, 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Online. 4-7 March. (with Badiba Olivier Agodio, Kayla Begay, Tinah Dobola, Octavio León Vázquez, Kate Lindsey, Iara Mantenuto, Jerry William Rain, Katerina Rain, Hannah Sande & Cheryl Tuttle
Legacy Text Collections and their Importance for Communities and Student Training. 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Online. 4-7 March. (with Erin Hashimoto)
Las clases verbales de la lengua sáliba. 2021 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Online. 7-10 January (with Hortensia Estrada Ramírez)
Teaching ethics in the language documentation curriculum. Special Panel on “Teaching Ethics across the Linguistics Curriculum”. 2021 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 7-10 January
2020
Términos para configuraciones del cuerpo o de una parte del cuerpo en piaroa (Jodï-Sáliba). XXXIV del Encuentro Nacional de Docentes e Investigadores de la Lingüística, Barquisimento, Venezuela. 17-20 November
Body and body-part configurations in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 26 August – 1 September
Possession Marking in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 2020 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 2-5 January
2019
Community-Oriented Training in Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization. Symposium on "Symposium on Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization", University of California, Davis. 29-30 June (with Justin Spence)
Grammar Writing and Diachronic Typology. Conference on Descriptive Grammars and Typology: The Challenges of Writing Grammars of Underdescribed and Endangered Languages, University of Helsinki. 27-29 March
Historical Linguistics for Language Revitalization: Connecting Communities Past and Present. 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. Honolulu, Hawai’i. February 28 – March 3 (with Justin Spence)
Subject marking in Jodï (Jodï-Sáliban, Venezuela). 2019 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. New York City, NY. 3-6 January
2018
Nominal Classification in Mako (Sáliban). Syntax of the World’s Languages 8. Paris, France. 3-5 September
Concurrent Systems of Nominal Classification in Piaroa (Sáliban). 51th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Tallinn, Estonia. 29 August – 1 September
Understanding the Near Extinction of Arutani and Sapé (Venezuela and Brazil). Special Workshop “The Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment”, 20th International Congress of Linguists. Cape Town, South Africa. 2-6 July (with Thiago Chacon & Francia Medina)
Synchrony and Diachrony of Postverbal Negation in Jodï-Sáliban. Special Workshop “The Typology of Postverbal Negation” 20th International Congress of Linguists. Cape Town, South Africa. 2-6 July
Amazonian Areal Features in Sáliban Grammar. 2018 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT. 4-7 January.
2017
Amazonian Areal Features in Sáliban Grammar. 2018 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT. 4-7 January
Language Documentation and Language Classification: Disentangling the Past of the Jodï Language. 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. San Antonio, TX. July 31-August 4.
Jodï-Sáliban, a New South-American Language Family. 2017 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. 5-8 January
Reconstructing the Proto-Piaroa-Mako Stops. 2017 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. 5-8 January
An Acoustic Study of Voice Onset Time in Kwak'wala Stops. 2017 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. 5-8 January (with Emily Elfner and Patricia A. Shaw)
2016
A New Grammaticalization Path from Sáliban: Postural Verbs > Deictic Roots. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Naples, Italy. 31 August - 3 September
Reconstruction of Proto-Piaroa-Mako Consonants. Amazonicas VI. Leticia, Colombia. 24-28 May
The Lexical Origin of the Mako Deictic Roots. 2016 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. 7-10 January
The Origin of the Piaroa Subject Markers -sæ, -hæ, and -Ø. 2016 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. 7-10 January
2015
Aspiration vs. Deletion of /-s/ in Contemporary Eastern Cuban Spanish: Differing Constraints. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 44: Intersections. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. October 22-25 (Poster, with Jeff Tennant, David Heap, and Angelica Hernández)
Is Jodï a Sáliban language? 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Special Workshop: Historical Relations Among Languages of the Americas. Leiden, The Netherlands. 2-5 September
The Diachronic Development of Subject Marking in Piaroa (Sáliban). 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Naples, Italy. 27-31 July.
Variation sociale et linguistique dans l’espagnol d’Holguín (Cuba) : aspiration et effacement. Annual Meeting Canadian Linguistic Association. Ottawa, Canada. 30 May-1 June (Poster, with Angélica Hernández, David Heap & Jeff Tennant)
Copula Grammaticalization in Proto-Sáliban. Annual Meeting Canadian Linguistic Association. Ottawa, Canada. 30 May-1 June
The Piaroa Subject Marking System and its Diachrony. International Workshop: Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages. Lyon, France. 28-30 May
The Mako Deitic Roots. Workshop on American Indian Languages (WAIL), University of California at Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. 8-9 May
Proto-Sáliban Subject Marking and the Grammaticalization of Copulas into TAME and Polarity Morphology. 2015 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 8-11 January
2014
Today’s Morphology in Mako is Both Yesterday’s and Today’s Syntax: Grammaticalization of the Mako Copulas and its Implications for Marking Animate Subjects in the Verb. Syntax of the World’s Languages. SWL-6, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September
Aspiration et effacement du /-s/ en espagnol d’Holguín (Cuba) : variables phonologiques et leur conditionnement. 2014 Canadian Linguistic Society Meeting. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. 24 -26 May (Poster, with Angélica Hernández, David Heap & Jeff Tennant)
Non-verbal Predicates in Mako and Copulas as Sources of Polarity and TAM Verbal Morphology. Amazonicas V. Belém (PA), Brazil. 26-30 May
Reconstruction of the Proto-Sáliban Verb Classes and the Animate Subject Markers. 2014 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. 2-5 January
2013
Marking of Human Animate Subjects on the Sáliban Verb. 16th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. 26‑27 April
Reciprocal Marking on the Mako Verb. 6th Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages (OWNAL). Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. 10-14 April
A Partial Acoustic Description of Mako (Sáliban). Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America. The Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. 8-9 March
On the Importance of Including Data from Long-term Participant Observation in Assessments of Linguistic Vitality: A Case Study from Fieldwork among the Mako. 5th Biennial Meeting of the Rice Linguistics Society. Rice University, Houston, TX. 8-9 February
Patterns of Language Use in Four Venezuelan Mako Communities. 2013 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. 3-6 January
2012
Aspiration and Deletion of /-s/ in Holguin (Cuba) Spanish: Phonological Variables and their conditioning. International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Literature. Islamic University of Gaza. 20-21 October (with David Heap (presenter) & Jeff Tennant)
Salivan Language Family: State of Documentation and Brief Typological Sketch. 2012 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 5-8 January (Poster)
The Sociolinguistic Situation of Various Venezuelan Mako Communities: a Fieldwork Report. 2012 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 5-8 January (Poster, with Tania Granadillo)
2011
Les constructions à double objet du kinyarwanda : vraiment symétriques? Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 15), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. 9-10 December (Poster)
“Multiple-consultant” Field Methods Training. Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 15), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. 9-10 December
-s Aspiration and Deletion in Holguín Spanish: Conditioning Phonological Variables. Methods in Dialectology 14. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 2-6 August (with David Heap and Jeff Tennant)
Variation in the Unstressed Third-person Object Personal Pronouns in the Spanish Spoken in the Province of Zamora (Spain) According to the ALPI Data. Methods in Dialectology 14. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 2-6 August
Monolingual Field Methods: Applying Everett’s (2001) “Monolingual field research” to Field Training. 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI. 11-13 February
2010
Negation in Uyghur. ɛmɛs, -mA, -mAj, and -mɛs: Historically One and the Same? Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 14), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 9-10 December
2009
Tu parles-tu joual? T’es Québécois! Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 13), McGill University, Montreal, QC. 5-6 December
The History of Evangeline’s People. IV Conferencia Científica Internacional Universidad de Holguín 2009, University of Holguín, Cuba. April.
2008
Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Canada at a Glance. Sixth International Conference on Foreign Languages, Communication and Culture (WEFLA 2008), University of Holguín, Cuba. April.
Tu parles-tu joual? T’es Québécois! : Brève Analyse du Joual. Sixth International Conference on Foreign Languages, Communication and Culture (WEFLA 2008), University of Holguín, Cuba. April.
2006
LiteraryWeb: a Website for Literary Analysis I. XVII National Forum of University Students of Social, Natural and Exact Sciences. Havana, June.
Motivating Students towards Canadian Literature. Fifth International Conference on Foreign Languages, Communication and Culture (WEFLA 2006), University of Holguín, Cuba. April.