Wesley dos Santos
Email: wesleynascimento@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Amazonian languages (especially Kawahiva, a Tupí-Guaraní language) |
Myriam Lapierre
Email: myriam.lapierre@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, nasality, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages (especially Jê languages) |
Wendy L. A. López Márquez
Email: wendy_lopez@berkeley.edu Research interests: Morphosyntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, Mesoamerican linguistics (especially Mixe-Zoquean languages: Highland Popoluca) |
Tzintia Montano Ramirez
Pronouns: she, her, hers Email: cynthia.montano@berkeley.edu Research interests: Otomanguean languages, especially Mixtec of Puebla |
Allegra Robertson
Email: allegra_robertson@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages, bilingualism, fieldwork |
Dissertation Committee Chair
Zachary O'Hagan. Focus in Caquinte (2020) [Co-chair: Line Mikkelsen]
Kelsey Neely. The Linguistic Expression of Affective Stance in Yaminahua (2019)
Amalia Skilton. Spatial and Non-Spatial Deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna (2019)
Tammy Stark. Caribbean North Arawak Person Marking and Alignment: A Comparative and Diachronic Analysis (2018) [Co-chair: Line Mikkelsen]
Jessica Cleary-Kemp: Serial Verb Constructions Revisited: A Case Study from Koro (2015)
Stephanie Farmer. Establishing reference in Máíhĩ̵̀kì (2015)
Marilola Pérez. Cavite Chabacano Philippine Creole Spanish: Description and Typology (2015)
Dissertation Committee Member
Marjorie Rowe. Storytelling Comes Alive: Preschoolers’ Development of Narrative Comprehension and Academic Language Within a Participatory Oral Storytelling Intervention (2020) [Chair: David Pearson]
Eric Prendergast. The Origin and Spread of Locative Determiner Omission in the Balkan Linguistic Area. (2017) [Chair: Line Mikkelsen]
Ana Paula Brandão. A Reference Grammar of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). (2014) [Chair: Patience Epps, UT Austin]
Erin Coyne. Coming Down from the Mountain: Dialect Contact and Convergence in Contemporary Hutsulshchnya. (2014) [Chair: Johanna Nichols]
Iksoo Kwon. Viewpoints in the Korean Verbal Complex: Evidence Perception, Assessment, and Time (2012) [Chair: Eve Sweetser]
Rebecca Cover. Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke (2010) [Chair: Line Mikkelsen]
Ravenna Collver. A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Japurá-Colombia and Alto Negro (Arawakan). (2021)
Teela Huff. LAMA: A simple tool for sharing audio-linked lexical data. (2021)
Zaphiel Miller. Phylogenetic Classification of the Negro-Roraima Subgroup. (2021)
Griffin Peavler. Phylogenetic Analysis of the Central & Eastern Maipuran Languages. (2021)
Stacey Vu. The Phonetics of Iquito Lexical Tones. (2021)
Eric Chen. Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Kampa Consonants. (2019)
Michael Dohn. Directionals and Aspect in Matsigenka. (2017)