| 2025 ‘Linguistic Dynamics in Caquetá-Putumayo: A Morphosyntactic Perspective.’ To be presented at Amazonicas X. 12-16 August 2025. Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil. |
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| 2025 (with Frank Seifart and Juan Alvaro Echeverri) ‘Amazonian Crossroads: Multilingual Practices in the Caquetá-Putumayo Area.’ To be presented at Amazonicas X. 12-16 August 2025. Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil. |
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| 2025 ‘The language of ownership: Insights into the Witotoan language family from Northwest Amazonia.’ To be presented at Workshop: Exploring Possession Across Indigenous South and Central America: Expanding Perspectives Through Underdescribed Languages. University of Warsaw. 17 January. |
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| 2024 ‘Polityki językowe w Kolumbii.’ To be presented at Polityki językowe w krajach hiszpańsko- i portugalskojęzycznych. Jagiellonian University, 12 December. |
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| 2024 ‘Multi-disciplinary research into the Caquetá-Putumayo languages – what can we say so far? [Investigación multidisciplinaria sobre las lenguas Caquetá-Putumayo: ¿Qué podemos decir hasta ahora?].’ Universidad de Colombia, Bogotá. 2 September. |
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| 2024 ‘Unveiling Intimacy in Language: A Grammatical Exploration of Sexual Representation in the Colombian Amazon.’ Grammar of Sex session of the Syntax of the Worlds Languages IX. Lima, 23-26 July. |
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| 2024 ‘Sustaining Work and Social Practices in the Colombian Amazon: The Case of the Caquetá-Putumayo Peoples.’ Presented at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań. 8-14 September. |
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| 2024 ‘Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Identity: Unraveling the Complexities of the Murui-Muina Dialect Continuum in the Colombian Amazon.’ Presented at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań. 8-14 September. |
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| 2024 Three presentations: ‘Decoding language sounds: A beginner’s guide to phonetics, phonology, and language description,’ ‘Unraveling language structures: Exploring morphology and syntax across the globe,’ ‘Fascinating frontiers: Exploring intriguing topics in linguistics.’ Presented at the Cross-Linguistic Exploration in Linguistics: Capacity-building Workshop. University of Warsaw. 17 June. |
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| 2023 (with Jacob Menschel) ‘Areal diffusion in Caquetá-Putumayo: the case of Differential Object Marking’. Presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2023 (ICHL26), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 4-8 Sep. |
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| 2023 (with Jacob Menschel) ‘Differential Object Marking in the languages of the Caquetá-Putumayo from an areal perspective of Northwest Amazonia’. Presented at the 56th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2023), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 29 Aug -1 Sep. |
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| 2023 ‘The dynamics of language contact in Northwest Amazonia: shared focal linguistic features across the languages from the Caquetá-Putumayo River Basins’. To be presented at Amazonicas IX, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 5-9 Jun. |
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| 2023 (with Maximilian Weiss) ‘Counting systems in the languages of the Caquetá-Putumayo region in Northwest Amazonia’. To be presented at Amazonicas IX, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 5-9 Ju |
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| 2023 (with Juan Alvaro Echeverri) ‘Towards a reconstruction of the proto-Witotoan pronominal system (Northwest Amazonia)’. To be presented at the thematic session Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, 29 Aug-1Sep. |
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| 2023 ‘Relationship between aspects and tense: the case of Murui from Northwest Amazonia’. Presented at The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), 20 Jan. |
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| 2022 ‘Witototan frustrativity in areal perspective of Northwest Amazonia’. Presented at the co-organized thematic session (with Patrick Caudal, Simon Overall, David Beltran Guerrero, Marie Legentil, and Beatrice Pahontu) Failed expectations and thwarted intentions: Avertivity and frustrativity in crosslinguistic perspective at the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT14) conference, Austin, Texas, USA. 16 Dec. |
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| 2022 ‘Imbuing words with power: Diversity from indigenous and linguistic perspectives in the Colombian Amazon’. Presented at Indigenous Identities and Resilience in the Americas. Cross-disciplinary and self-reflecting approaches meeting. University of Warsaw, 19 Nov. |
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| 2022 ‘La lengua Murui (Bue, Uitoto)’. Presented at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 21 Oct. |
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| 2022 ‘Animal taboo in Northwest Amazonia: Sociocultural practices that have their roots in belief systems’. Presented at the co-organized thematic session (with Justyna Olko) Multilingual ecologies in a comparative perspective: well-being of speakers, social practices and challenges to linguistic diversity at the 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM51). 10 Sep. |
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| 2022 ‘Society and environment reflected in language: the view from the Amazon’. Presented at Mini-Symposium “Language, land and Indigenous resilience: views from the Americas and Europe/Idioma, tierra y resiliencia Indígena: vistas desde las Américas y Europa”. University of Warsaw, 19 May. |
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| 2022 ‘Writing Amazonian Words: a journey into the jungle’. Invited talk. Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. 22 Apr. |
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| 2022 ‘How would you do linguistic fieldwork if you were a linguist working in the Amazon?’. Invited talk at the University of Warsaw colloquium, 30 Mar. |
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| 2022 ‘Linguistic Research Skills: Experiences from the Amazon.’ Invited talk at the Multilingualism Research Hub, University of Warsaw, Poland. |
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| 2021 ‘Panorama general de las lenguas amazónicas de Colombia: rasgos lingüísticos’. Keynote talk, presented at Encuentro de Estudiantes y Egresados de Lingüística y Filología Clásica. Universidad de Colombia sede Bogotá, 17 Nov. |
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| 2021 ‘On the linguistics of the Witotoan family’. University of Warsaw, Poland. Oct 13. |
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| 2021 ‘How (not to) count in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia)?’. Presented at 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM50) ‘Linguistics matters: On the importance of the study of language in the modern world’. 18 Sep |
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| 2020 ‘Aproximación a la gramática de la lengua Murui (Bue, Uitoto)’. Presented at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 27 Nov. |
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| 2020 ‘Counting practices in CP region, Colombian Amazon’. Presented at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 7 Jul. |
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| 2020 ‘Classifier constructions in Witotoan languages (Northwest Amazonia)’, presented at Diversity Linguistics seminar, Leipzig University, 25 Feb. |
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| 2020 ‘How (not) to count in Murui (Witotoan) and other languages of Northwest Amazonia?’. SSILA (LSA) Annual Meeting 2020, 4 Jan, New Orleans, USA. |
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| 2019 ‘On Amazonian counting practises’. A talk presented with Maximilian Weiss at LiFO. 27 Dec, University of Regensburg, Germany. |
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| 2019 ‘Studying linguistic diversity in context of limited linguistic descriptions: the case of the “Witoto” language from the Colombian Amazon’. Presented at the ‘The challenges of linguistic diversity’ International Workshop, 24 Sep, Bern, Switzerland. |
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| 2019 Invited as a discussant at the ‘The integration of language and society’ Workshop. To be presented at 23 Aug, LCRC, JCU Cairns, Australia. |
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| 2019 ‘Counting practices in Northwest Amazonia as a result of language contact?’. A talk presented at University of Mainz. 10 Jul, Mainz, Germany. |
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| 2019 ‘Language change in Northwest Amazonia: grammatical categories under contact’. A talk presented at Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, Higher School of Economics. 26 Mar, Moscow, Russia. |
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| 2019 ‘Power of words - taboo registers and ritual discourse among the Murui from Northwest’. A talk presented at Research Center for Linguistic Typology, Institute of linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities. 25 Mar, Moscow, Russia. |
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| 2019 ‘Doing linguistic fieldwork ‐ experiences with the Murui of the Colombian Amazon’. A talk presented at Oriental Studies Department of the University of Warsaw. 6 Mar, Warsaw, Poland. |
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| 2018 ‘Linguistic treasures of Northwest Amazonia: evidentiality and epistemic modality in contact’. A talk presented at LiFO. 12 Dec, University of Regensburg, Germany. |
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| 2018 ‘How did this grow in you? - About the expression of disease in Murui (Witotoan)’. 25 Sep, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2018 ‘Murui uai – the phonological and grammatical status of “word” in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia)’. A talk presented at Special Workshop ‘Word: its manifestations and functions’. 03 Sep, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2018 ‘Language contact and change: the case of Muruiñoz from Northwest Amazonia’. A talk presented at the Special Workshop of the LCRC and the University of Augsburg Language Contact and the emergence of hybrid grammars. 12 Jul, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2018 ‘Number systems in Murui (Witotoan). 11 Apr, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2018 ‘On fieldwork in Colombia’. Presented at The adventure of linguistic fieldwork: meeting series. 9 Mar, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2018 ‘Language contact in Caquetá and Putumayo river basins in Northwest Amazonia’. SSILA (LSA) Annual Meeting 2018, 5 Jan, Salt Lake City, USA. |
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| 2017 ‘Grammaticalization of body part terms in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia)’. Invited talk presented at Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage: A Comparative and Typological Perspective International Workshop, 9 Dec, University of Warsaw, Poland. |
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| 2017 ‘Understanding the Origin Myth - the unknowns of the linguistic fieldwork among the ‘Witoto’. Invited talk presented at The secret and the sacred: working with such knowledge International Workshop, 15 Nov, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2017 ‘Secret language among the Murui’. Invited talk presented at Creativity in language: secret codes and special styles special workshop at the University of Cologne, 29 Sep, Belgium. |
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| 2017 ‘Aproximación a la gramática de la lengua Murui (Bue, Uitoto)’. Invited talk presented at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 15 Sep, Bogotá, Colombia. |
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| 2017 ‘Contacto lingüístico en la cuenca de los ríos Caquetá y Putumayo’. Invited talk presented at Seminario Permanente de Lenguas Nativas Dinámicas sociales humanas, expansiones y cambios lingüísticos, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 29 Aug, Bogotá, Colombia. |
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| 2017 ‘Murui verbal classifiers’. Invited talk presented at International Workshop Classifiers and genders in Amazonia and beyond, 10 Aug, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2017 ‘The languages and peoples of the Caquetá-Putumayo River Basins in Northwest Amazonia: What can we say?’. 2 Aug, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2017 ‘Reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Murui’. 14 Jun, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2017 ‘Exploring endangered languages: A story from the Amazon’. Invited talk presented at Young Language Ambassador Conference, 31 May, JCU Townsville. |
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| 2017 ‘Exploring endangered languages: A story from the Amazon.’ Invited talk presented at Young Language Ambassador Conference, 29 May, The Cairns Institute (TCI)-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘A grammar of Murui (Bue): A Witotoan Language of Northwest Amazonia.’ Pre-completion Seminar (awarded the highest grade of ‘Outstanding’), 17 Nov, JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘A day of life exhibit - the Murui’. Presented at Exhibition, Video Art and Performance as Interventionist Research Method HDR Workshop, 13 Oct, The Cairns Institute, Cairns, Australia. |
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| 2016 ‘Some notes on aspects of Nonuya (Witotoan) grammar’. 7 Sep, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘Traversing language barriers. Murui signal drums from Northwest Amazonia’. Presented at Creativity in language: secret codes and special styles special workshop at the LCRC jointly with the University of Cologne, 10-11 Aug, JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘Differential case marking and information structure in Colombian Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia)’. Presented at Special Workshop Grammatical categories and information structure, 29 June, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘Possession in Murui Witoto’. Presented at Possession – Global Workshop. 22 June, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2016 ‘Expression of negation in Murui (Witotoan, Colombia)’. Presented at Amazonicas VI. 24 May, Leticia, Colombia. |
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| 2016 ‘Commands in Murui (Bue, Uitoto)’. Invited talk presented at a special seminar of South American Native languages. 8 Apr, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia. |
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| 2015 ‘Functions of classifiers in an ongoing discourse: Reference-tracking systems in Murui’. Reference-Tracking Strategies Beyond. 30 Jul, Antwerp, Belgium. |
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| 2015 ‘Classifiers as derivational markers: the case of Murui from Northwest Amazonia’. Presented at Typology and Universals in Word-formation III Conference, 26-28 June, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia. |
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| 2015 ‘Murui Comparative constructions (Witoto)’. Special workshop Comparative and Superlative constructions: typology and diachrony, 16 June, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
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| 2015 ‘Information source and epistemic modality in Murui (Witoto)’. Invited talk, 18 June, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI), Nijmegen, the Netherlands. |
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| 2015 ‘Heterogeneous numerals in Murui (Witoto, Northwest Amazonia)’. Invited talk, 12 June, Leiden University, the Netherlands. |
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| 2015 ‘Semantics of Murui classifiers’. 21 May, University of Sydney, Australia. |
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| 2015 ‘Bridging linking in Murui (Witoto)’. Special workshop on Bridging linkage in cross-linguistic perspective, 25 Feb, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2015 ‘Fruits for the Animals: Hunting avoidance speech style among the Murui people (Northwest Amazonia)’. Berkeley Linguistics Society 41st Annual Meeting, 8 Feb, University of California at Berkeley. |
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| 2014 ‘Multiple classifier system in Murui’. 3 Dec, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2014 ‘Writing Murui Words’. ShowCASE Higher Education Conference, 3 Nov, JCU Townsville. |
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| 2014 ‘The sense of Murui nominalizations’. Special workshop on Nominalizations in the Americas and beyond, 7 Aug, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2014 ‘Questions in Murui’. Global Workshop on Questions, 14 May, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2014 ‘Fieldwork experiences: Life among the Murui People’. 11 Apr, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2014 ‘The adjective class in Murui (Witoto)’. 12 Mar, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2014 ‘Language avoidance among the Murui people from Northwest Amazonia’. 18 Jan, Anthropological Laboratory for Tropical Audiovisual Research, JCU Cairns. |
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| 2013 ‘A preliminary description of Witoto Murui demonstratives and directionals’. 5 Jun, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2013 ‘A reference grammar of Witoto Murui’. Confirmation of Candidature Seminar (awarded the highest grade of ‘Outstanding’), 14 May, JCU Cairns. |
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| 2013 ‘Aspects of Witoto grammar’. 13 Mar, LCRC-JCU Cairns. |
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| 2011 ‘Lexus and Abril’. DOBES (Documentation of Endangered languages), Field methods training. 10-15 Jun, MPI, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. |
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