Guillem Belmar

New article(s) out!

Belmar, Guillem & Jeremías Salazar. 2026. The many things that ‘thing’ can become: A story of discourse and grammar in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec). Functions of Language, 32(3). 285-313.  

Belmar, Guillem. 2025. The expression of 'already' in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó. Linguistics Vanguard. 

Belmar, Guillem. 2025. Outsourcing translations of COVID-19 information into minoritized languages: the #europeminoritylanguages project. In Miren Manias Muños, Sergiusz Bober & Craig Willis (eds.), Minority Language Media: Current challenges in a fragmented landscape, 149-186. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. 

Upcoming talks:

March 2026 - Presentation at the Foro Internacional de Transmisión Intergeneracional de Lenguas Originarias y Minoritarias, together with Eric W. Campbell

March 2026 - Presentation at the Colloquium of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

April 2026 - Presentation at the Colloquium of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington

May 2026 - He-God-Liquid: Stance-driven variation in choice of pronoun in Sà'án Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec), at the 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, at the University of California, Santa Barbara

May 2026 - Kìmi tsi chǐvì book presentation at Goleta Library, Santa Barbara, California. 

May 2026 - Mixtec community interpretation to access healthcare, together with the JSILO team, at Goleta Library, Santa Barbara, California. 

May 2026 - Presentation at the round table Lenguas y comunidades migrantes [Migrant languages and communities] at Aridolingua: Perspectivas lingüísticas sobre el Noroeste de México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos [Linguistic perspectives on the Northwest of Mexico and Southwest of the US] at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. 

June 2026 - What’s left? Non-concatenative morphology to mark person in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec), with Alonso Vásquez-Aguilar and Eric W. Campbell. Workshop on The Evolution of Non-concatenative Morphology at the International Morphology Meeting 22. Budapest.

June 2026 - Audiovisual storybooks for language revitalization, workshop at CoLang, taught with Noemy Condori Arias.