Lev Michael

Job title:

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Bio/CV:

Anthropological linguistics, typology, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, South American historical and contact linguistics, language revitalization

Role:

Fieldwork and Language Documentation

Language and Social Context

Faculty

Topics

Contact

levmichael@berkeley.edu

1212 Dwinelle Hall

Webpage

Publications

Managing Lexicography Data: A Practical, Principled Approach Using FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)

Christine Beier; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2022

Iquito Dictionary

Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma

Recent Publication, 2021

The classification of South American languages

Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2021

Rethinking the communicative functions of evidentiality: Event responsibility in Nanti (Arawakan)

Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2020

A Privative Derivational Source for Standard Negation in Lokono (Arawakan)

Konrad Rybka; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2020

Computational Phylogenetics and the Classification of South American Languages

Lev Michael; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri

Recent Publication, 2020

Phylogenetic Classification Supports a Northeastern Amazonian Proto-Tupí-Guaraní Homeland

Zachary O'Hagan; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2019

Diccionario Escolar Ikíitu Kuwasíini – Tawɨ Kuwasíini (Iquito – Castellano)

Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma

Recent Publication, 2019

Lines in Nanti karintaa chants: An areal poetic typological perspective (An essay in honor of Joel Sherzer)

Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2019

Iquito-English Dictionary

Lev Michael; Christine Beier; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma

Recent Publication, 2019

The evolution of subject-verb agreement in Eastern Tukanoan

Thiago Costa Chacon; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2018

Iquito

Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma

Recent Publication, 2018

Matsigenka

Lev Michael; Christine Beier; Sr. Haroldo Vargas Pereira

Recent Publication, 2018

Language Revalorization in Peruvian Amazonia, Through the Lens of Iquito

Christine Beier; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2018

The areal linguistics of Amazonia

Patience Epps; Lev Michael

Recent Publication, 2017

Pɨ-naájuuyaa ikíituwaaka kuwasíini. Vamos a escribir el idioma iquito

Christine Beier; Hilter Panduro Güimack; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma; Kathryn Metz

Recent Publication, 2017