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I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I direct the M.A. Program in Native American Languages & Linguistics (also known as NAMA). I'm a field linguist with formal training in theoretical linguistics and language documentation & revitalization. I conduct research in the Desano and Siriano; two endangered Eastern Tukanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés Region of Brazil and Colombia. More recently, I began to collaborate (with Dr. Scott AnderBois) in the documentation and maintenance of A'ingae (also known as Cofán), an isolate language spoken in Ecuador.
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Courses
  • AIL
    American Indian Languages

  • LMPR
    Language Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization

  • HCL
    Historical Comparative Linguistics

Grants
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    Collaborative Research: Perspective Taking and Reported Speech in an Evidentially-Rich Language

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $97.9K
    Active
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    Analyzing Siriano and Desano to Determine Universal Principles of Language Change

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $90.4K
Books
  • Language Change, Documentation and their Intersections: Studies in Honor of Lyle Campbell

    2022

News
  • UArizona named No. 1 producer of Fulbright Scholars

    2023

Publications (13)
Recent
  • Collaborative approaches to the challenges of language documentation and conservation

    2020

  • Ticuna Field Materials

    2020

  • Sobre uma metodologia de documenta ccedil; atilde;o baseada nas atividades de (re)vitaliza ccedil; atilde;o

    2020

  • Zo'é (Brazil) - Language Snapshot

    2020

  • Sobre uma metodologia de documentação baseada nas atividades de (re)vitalização

    2020

  • Guia Etnobotânico de plantas em comunidades Desano (Tukano-oriental) no rio Tiquié - Brasil

    2019

  • Investigating linguistic links between the Amazon and Andes: The case of A’ingae

    2019

  • Guia Etnobotânico de Plantas de uma Comunidade Desana do Rio Tiquié, Brasil

    2018

  • Multilingual Interactions and Code-mixing in Northwest Amazonia

    2018

  • Documenting Variation in Endangered Languages

    2017

  • Telling Traditional Stories in a Non-Traditional Way: Desano Digital Storytelling

    2016

  • Fieldwork Game Play: Masterminding Evidentiality in Desano. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation

    2016

  • The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano

    2016

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