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
New paper on Cyclic Agree and Mẽbêngôkre published at the proceedings of the 2023 Chicago Linguistic Society conference.
May 2024
The proceedings of the 2024 LSA Meeting are published, with a paper on Mỹky interlocutor exponence.
January 2024
New publication: Quotative strategies in Panará, at LDD.
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.