About me

I am a Catalan linguist who studies Amazonian languages, with a focus on Panará (Jê family) and Mỹky (isolated). My research combines a descriptive and theoretical approach to language, in particular syntax and morphology, while also focusing on language documentation and revitalization.

I am a FWO senior postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. In my current project I investigate argument marking patterns in the languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region, in southern Amazonia, and its population history.

I have a PhD from the University of Groningen, with a dissertation on case and agreement in Panará. Since then, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley on an ELDP project to document Manoki, an endangered variety of Mỹky, and more recently at Ghent University, with an NWO Rubicon award, where I looked into the notion of subject and grammatical relations in Amazonian languages.  

I have an MA in linguistics from Paris VII (Université Denis Diderot) and a double major in translation and in linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona. 

Updates

December 2024

May 2024

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Upcoming and recent presentations:

26-28 may 2025

Mỹky ritual speech. Symposium on the Language of Ritual Discourse in South and Central America. Université Lyon 2, France.

20-21 january 2025

What voices and sounds can tell us about the history of Guaporé-Mamoré indigenous nations. The population history of the Bolivian tropical lowlands: towards a multi-disciplinary synthesis. Leiden University, the Netherlands.

7 november 2024

La grandesa de les llengües petites: cultura lingüística i resistència lingüística. X Jornada de la Càtedra Pompeu Fabra. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Catalonia

18 october 2024

Lost and found: Robert Meader’s legacy materials and Mỹky-Manoki history. Bringing Archives to Life workshop. Leiden University, Netherlands.

13 september 2024

Polisíntesi i diacronia a l'Amazònia meridional. I Jornada de llengua i societat Carme Junyent. Universitat de Girona, Catalonia.