Current Projects

• Corpus of oral history recordings, to be supplemented with recordings of more informal, conversational registers

• Grammatical description with focus on morphosyntax

• Sociolinguistic variation in Sanapaná, particularly the relationship between language shift and structural change

• Dictionary

• Diachronic topics, including the grammaticalisation of function words from nominalisations

Developing typologically-based annotation schemes for aspectual, temporal, and modal semantics

Testing UMR on a variety of languages to assess its cross-linguistic portability

Creating a corpus of Sanapaná texts with UMR annotations