upcoming events:
March 27−30, 2012:
Swintha Danielsen: "Afijos compuestos y su lexicalización en el baure (arawakano)"
Presentation at the XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística, San Luis, Argentina; Colloquium “Procesos de formación de palabras: lexicalización, gramaticalización y contacto de lenguas (con especial referencia a las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur)”
past events:
December 5, 2011:
Swintha Danielsen: "The most resistant Arawakan feature: the person marking paradigm?"
Talk at the MPI Leipzig
October 31, 2011
Femmy Admiraal: "Baure: the first steps towards teaching materials"
Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame
Americanist Meeting 2011, June 24, 2011, University of Leipzig, Germany;
organized by Femmy Admiraal, Swintha Danielsen, and Katja Hannß:
"Word formation in South American languages"; Programme
June 16, 2011, 13:15, GWZ, H1 5.04 (Typological Colloquium):
Lena Terhart: "Classifiers in South Arawakan Languages"
June 9, 2011, 13:15, GWZ, H1 5.04 (Typological Colloquium):
Swintha Danielsen: "Observing the evolution of TMA particles − replacing agglutinating strategies in Baure (Arawakan)"
May 12, 2011:
Workshop Revitalizing older linguistic documentation; University of Amsterdam:
Swintha Danielsen:
"Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages"
April 18, 2011:
10th International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality, Birmingham (Chronus 10)
Swintha Danielsen:
"Observing the evolution of TMAE particles − replacing agglutinating strategies"
April 4, 2011:
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Laboratorio di Linguistica
Swintha Danielsen: "Word formation in Baure (Arawakan): Evidence from various compounding types"
January 6-9, 2011:
SSILA annual meeting, Pittsburgh
Swintha Danielsen: "The grammaticalization of adpositions into valency increasing verbal affixes in Arawakan languages"
Femmy Admiraal, Swintha Danielsen & Franziska Riedel: "The Baure language group: cultural and linguistic diversity"
September/October, 2010:
5th meeting of German speaking researchers of South America and the Caribbean, Philipps University Marburg
Franziska Riedel: "Vom Umgang mit Geistern und Toten bei den Baure in Ostbolivien"
Swintha Danielsen, Sonja Gipper, Katja Hannß: Workshop "Hänsel und Gretel in Lateinamerika: Fossilien, Hybride, Aktualisierung und deren Dokumentation"
May 19, 2010:
Workshop on IT Methods for Investigating the History of Contact in Amazonia, Radboud University Nijmegen
Swintha Danielsen: "The 'valency split' within the Arawakan language family"
March 25, 2010: Leiden University
Mood & modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas (LINK)
Swintha Danielsen: "Phonologically conditioned loss of the realis/irrealis distinction"
October 16, 2009: DoBeS workshop, MPI Nijmegen
Lena Terhart & Swintha Danielsen: "The role of semi-speakers in language documentation"