Language Description

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Publications

(To appear) Is there a Ditransitive Construction in Kokama-Kokamilla? Studies in Language.
2009    The focus function(s) of =pura in Kokama-Kokamilla discourse. International Journal of American Linguistics. 75.3:399-432. (abstract, article).
2006    Fonología de la variedad kukamiria del río Huallaga (content). Programa de Formación de Maestros Bilingues de la Amazonía Peruana, Serie: Fonología, Iquitos, Peru.
2005    Entre flexión y derivación: Examinando algunos morfemas en Cocama-Cocamilla. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America II, University   of Texas at Austin,
2004    Basic Clauses in Kokama-Kokamilla (abstract). M. A. Thesis University of Oregon.
2000    El sistema de Casos en la Lengua Cocama: Variedad Cocamilla. Tesis de Licenciatura. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
2000    Morfemas Funcionales en Cocama-Cocamilla. In: Miranda Esquerre, Luis (Ed). Actas del I Congreso de Lenguas Amerindias de Sudamérica. Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima, Peru.

Conference presentations

2010    The syntax of three-place predicates in Kokama-Kokamilla. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas - SSILA. Baltimore, MD. January 7-10.
2009    Discussing ditransitive constructions in Kokama-Kokamilla. Presented at the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas -WSCLA 14, Purdue University, Indiana, April 2-5.
2009    Documenting Kokama-Kokamilla: and endangered language of the Amazon. Presented at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, CELCNA 5, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 27-29.
2008    Focus in Kokama-Kokamilla. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, University of Oregon, February 29.
2008    Focus constructions in Kokama-Kokamilla discourse. Accepted at the Syntax of the World's Languages III, Free University of Berlin, September 25-28.
2007    Tiempo, aspeto y orden de constituyentes en el discurso cocama-cocamilla. Presented at the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America III, University of Texas at Austin, October 25-27.
2005    Conditioning selection of pronominal forms in Kokama-Kokamilla: The role of syntax and information structure. Presented at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California in Santa Barbara, April 22-23.
2000    Cláusulas adverbiales en Cocama-Cocamilla. Presented at the III Congreso de Lenguas Amerindias, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru.
1999    Morfemas Funcionales en Cocama-Cocamilla. Presented at the I Congreso de Lenguas Amerindias, Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima-Peru, August 4-9.

Course papers

Constituent order from a diachronical perspective: On the possible origin of the tense/aspect split in Kokama-Kokamilla
Constituent order and the syntax-discourse interface in Kokama-Kokamilla
The syntactic status of GOAL in Kokama-Kokamilla
Discussing ditransitive constructions in Kokama-Kokamilla
The expression of focus in Kokama-Kokamilla discourse
Acoustic characterization of Kokama vowels