Invited Presentations
2023
Grammatical Animacy in Piaroa and Mako (Jodï-Sáliban). American Indian Linguistics seminar, University of California, Los Angeles. April 25
2022
Beyond Alienability: Factors Determining Possessive Classes and Constructions in Piaroa. Colloquium speaker, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary. October 14
Invited panelist, Tenure, Promotion, and Academic Review in Documentary Linguistics Webinar, Linguistic Society of America. September 28
Invited lecture, Documenting Arutani and Sapé, Two Isolates of Venezuela (and Brazil). “South American Indigenous Languages” Course, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. March 9
2021
La repatriación de colecciones lingüísticas: Retos y perspectivas. Plenary Speaker. XXII Diálogo de Estudiantes de Lingüística PUCP. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, Lima, Perú. September 23
Uso social de las lenguas indígenas en instituciones públicas y privadas. Festival Académico ALMG Jakalteka Popti’ - Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas. Jacaltenango, Guatemala (online). August 9
La importancia de colecciones lingüísticas y antropológicas. Linguistics Summer School Bolivia (https://www.lssbolivia.com/). May 22
Using Pre-existing Collections for Fieldwork Training. Fieldwork Forum. University of California, Berkeley. April 21.
Discussant. Why Language Documentation Matters? Book Launch. Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. March 12
Mobilizing Legacy Text Collections: Communities, Training, and Research. Plenary Speaker. 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS13). February 26-27.
Using Legacy Text Collections for Student Training and Research. Fieldwork Forum. McGill University. February 4. (with Erin Hashimoto)
2020
Alienable and Inalienable Possession in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban). Atelier Morphosyntaxe, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France, 3 November
“Preparing an Academic Chalk Talk” Panel. Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, The University of British Columbia. 25 September
Discussant, “Engaging Digital Archives to Meet Indigenous Communities’ Priorities” Panel. Symposium “Relationships, Reciprocity, Responsibilities: Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond”, American Philosophical Society, 21-25 September.
Language Documentation and Archiving Round Table. ABRALIN Ao Vivo. July 11. (with Ana Paola Brandão, Patience Epps, Susan Kung, Denny Moore and Zachary O’Hagan)
2019
Salvaguardando colecciones lingüísticas y antropológicas. Invited presentation, Department of Linguistics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 11 June.
Documenting Arutani and Sapé, two isolates of Venezuela (and Brazil). Linguistics Colloquium, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 9 May.
2018
Documenting Arutani and Sapé, two isolates of Venezuela (and Brazil). Linguistics Colloquium, York University, Toronto, ON. 15 November.
Brazil’s National Museum Fire: Three Disciplinary Perspectives on Loss – The View from Linguistics. Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. 1 October
Legacy Documentation Collections and What They Have to Tell us. Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL). Ottawa, ON, Canada. 13-14 April
El área lingüística amazónica, las lenguas de la familia sáliba, y el SIRO. Invited Guest Lecture. Department of Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. 23 March
2017
Rasgos areales amazónicos en las lenguas sáliba. Seminario Permanente de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia. 14 November
Where Can Deictics Come from? Evidence from Sáliban and Beyond. Atelier Langues et Histoire, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France, 12 January
2016
Los marcadores verbales de sujeto en la familia sáliba y su reconstrucción. Special Mini-Colloquium “Las familias sáliba, yurí-tikuna y jodï ¿herederos de una estirpe?”, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia. 2 June
Relaciones de parentesco de las lenguas sálibas con otras lenguas amazónicas: una evaluación crítica. Special Mini-Colloquium “Las familias sáliba, yurí-tikuna y jodï ¿herederos de una estirpe?”, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia. 2 June
2015
An Assessment of Language Vitality among the Mako People of Venezuela and the Importance of Participant Observation Data. Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia. 3 December
Multiple Exponence in Piaroa Subject Marking: Understanding its Origins. Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, The University of British Columbia. 23 October
Grammaticalization of Lexical Elements as Deictics: Evidence from Sáliban. Nijmegen Grammar Group: Talk Series in Linguistic Typology, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 27 August
Proto-Sáliban Copula Grammaticalization. Atelier Langues et Histoire, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France, 3 March
Extended Subject Agreement on the Piaroa Verb and its Origin. Atelier Morphosyntaxe, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France, 27 February
2014
Morphological Evidence for the Genetic Relationship of the Sáliban Languages: Two Verb Classes and their Animate Subject Markers. Linguistics Talks at Western. The University of Western Ontario. 13 March
Reconstructing the Proto-Sáliban Verb Classes. Atelier Langues et Histoire, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France, 18 February
Venezuela. Terrains et profils sociolinguistiques : Mako et Ye’kwana. Atelier LED-TDR, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon (R-A), France. 17 February (with Natalia Cáceres)
2013
Reconstrucción de las clases verbales del Proto-Sáliba y sus marcadores de sujetos animados: evidencia de una relación genética. Invited Guest Lecture. Department of Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. 25 September
The [Researcher’s] Human Dimension in Linguistic Fieldwork. Invited talk in Almost Silent: Languages in Peril, A GLOSS Community Linguistics Event. Linguistics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. 22 May
2012
Un proyecto de documentación y descripción colaborativa del Mako, un idioma Sáliba de Venezuela. Invited Guest Lecture. Department of Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. 4 December
Collaborative Documentation and Description of Mako, a Sáliban Language of Venezuela: A Project. Linguistics Talks at Western. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 11 May
2011
Maintenance and Revitalization in Bolivia: Complexities of Implementing a National Language Policy. Invited Guest Lecture. Course 9625 Critical Issues in Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 18 May
A Brief Analysis of Some Negation Strategies in Uyghur. Invited Guest Lecture. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 25 February
2010
Negation Strategies in Uyghur (ISO 639-3: uig). Linguistics Talks at Western. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON. 14 October