Conference presentations
(last 5 years)
(last 5 years)
A new host for Amazonian classifiers: Relational nouns in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Lyon, France. 1-3 July. (with Zoe Flaman) (Upcoming)
Animacy effects in object expression in Sáliba. 6th Symposium on Amazonian Languages. University of Alberta, 27-28 March. (with Jasman Sidhu) (Upcoming)
Purpose clauses in Sáliba (Jodï-Sáliban): A corpus study. 2026 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting (online). 17-18 January. (with Fabian Malaver Chaparro)
Right-to-left nasal harmony as gradient anticipatory coarticulation. Amazonicas X. Universidad Federal de Pará, Belén, Brazil. 12 – 16 August (with Matthew Faytak, Myriam Lapierre, Marina Magalhães, Ella De Falco, Cadence Lux, Nicholas Kamyu Mori, Tyler Schnoor, Lev Michael)
Object omission in Sáliba procedural discourse. 2025 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting (online). 24-26 January. (with Fabian Malaver Chaparro)
Sequentiality in two 1969 Sáliba procedural texts. 2025 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting (online). 24-26 January
Oral and nasal airflow in nasalized laryngeal consonants. 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online). 18-22 November. (with Matthew Faytak, Lev Michael, Myriam Lapierre, Tyler Schnoor, Mariana Quintana Godoy, Tianle Yang, and Beatriz Apolinario)
Prosodic augmentation via lengthening of secondary articulations in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Helsinki, Finland. 21-24 August
A method for assessing reliability of stress notation in written legacy materials. Workshop “Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation”, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. 11-12 April
Body-part terms in Sáliba: A historical comparison. Fifth Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL 5). Albuquerque, NM. 29-30 March. (with Fabian Malaver Chaparro)
Purpose clauses with ‘saying’ in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). 2024 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting. New York City, NY. 4-7 January
Proto-Piaroa-Mako Genitive Classifiers: Reconstruction and Implications. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Athens, Greece. August 29 – September 1
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)
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)
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
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
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