About me
I am a Catalan linguist who studies Amazonian languages, with a focus on Panará (Jê family) and Mỹky (isolate). 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 look at argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré region in southern Amazonia.
I have a PhD from the University of Groningen, with a dissertation on case and agreement in Panará (Jê family). Since then, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley on an ELDP project to document Manoki, an endangered variety of Mỹky (isolated), 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
January 2024
New publication: Quotative strategies in Panará, at LDD.
October 2023
I have started a three-year senior postdoctoral research project, funded by FWO, at Ghent University.
June 2023
Amazónicas IX took place in Bogotá, with our symposium on subjecthood and grammatical relations.
April 2023
The proceedings of WSCLA 25 are published, and with them a paper on finiteness in Jê languages co-written by Kim Groothuis and myself.
Upcoming and recent presentations:
21-24 august 2024
Triangulating language contact across families: linguistic and ethnomusicological data. 57th Annual Meeting of the SLE. Helsinki.
23-26 july 2024
The resurfacing of Robert Meader's Mỹky/Iranxe legacy materials. 2024 meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Barcelona, Catalonia.
4 february 2024
Language documentation and revitalization of Mỹky, in Brazilian Amazonia. ΔiaLing Colloquium talk, Ghent University.
4-7 january 2024
Mỹky interlocutor exponence and the syntax of the speech act. LSA Annual meeting, NYC.
Internal and external pressures in Northern Jê morphosyntactic change. SSILA Annual Meeting, NYC.
19-23 september 2023
Experiencer subjects and case-marking patterns in Jê languages. Topic, Focus and Subject (TFS) Conference. University of Osnabrück, Germany.
5-9 june 2023
Non-canonical subjects and case marking trends in Jê languages.
Musical revitalization as linguistic revitalization: the Mỹky jakuli (with Kamtinuwy Mỹky). Amazónicas IX. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
28-30 april 2023
Cycle-sensitive Vocabulary Insertion: partial agreement displacement in the Cyclic Agree framework. Chicago Linguistic Society conference. University of Chicago. [handout]