Rosa Vallejos Yopán
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics
at the University of Oregon.
My main interests are descriptive linguistics
and typology, language documentation,
and bilingual education. Since 1997, I have
been participating in various projects involving indigenous people from
the Amazonia, one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse areas
of the world, and also one of the least understood. My M.A. thesis,
Basic
Clauses in Kokama-Kokamilla (Vallejos 2004), describes an endangered
language spoken by approximately 1500 people in the Peruvian Amazon. For
my dissertation I am writing A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla, under
the supervision of Spike
Gildea. I started to expand my studies to Secoya (Western Tucanoan),
another minimally documented language spoken by the Airo-Pai
in
Peru and Ecuador.