Curriculum vitae
Present position
Since August 2009
Senior Researcher in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Career & University education
Oct. 2007 - July 2009
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent [assistant professor, non-tenured] at the Universität Regensburg
Sep. 2004 - July 2009
Principal researcher and coordinator of the DOBES project “Documenting the languages of the People of the Centre, especially Bora and Ocaina (North West Amazon)” ( link)
Sep. 2004 - Sep. 2007
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [Postdoc] at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Oct. 2005
Ph.D. in linguistics, Radboud University, thesis title “The Structure and Use of Shape-Based Noun Classes in Miraña (North West Amazon)”, supervised by Stephen C. Levinson, Nikolaus Himmelmann, and Nick (N.J.) Enfield. Examination committee: Pieter Muysken, Greville G. Corbett, Elsa Gómez-Imbert, Walter Bisang, Gunter Senft, Colette Grinevald, Sérgio Meira, approved cum laude, awarded the 2005 Mary R. Haas Award, presented by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) for a manuscript from a younger scholar that makes a significant substantive contribution to the knowledge of American Indian languages
Feb. 1999 - Jan. 2001
Studies in Etnolingüística at the Centro Colombiano de Estudios de Lenguas Aborígenes (CCELA), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, M.A. (Magíster), thesis title “El sistema de clasificación nominal del miraña [The System of Nominal Classification of Miraña]”, supervised by Jon Landaburu
Oct. 1992 - Jan. 1999
Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Major: German and general linguistics. Minors: Spanish, sociology. Additional studies in German literature, psychology, anthropology, M.A. in General Linguistics, thesis title “Grundfragen bei der Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen [Fundamental Issues in the Documentation of Endangered Languages]”, supervised by H. H. Lieb
Sep. 1996 - May 1997
Studies in General linguistics, experimental phonetics, Spanish literature and Catalan language at the Universitat de Barcelona
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Field work
since July 2003
Field work on Bora (Witotoan) and Resígaro (Arawakan) in Northern Peru, collaboration in field work on Witoto and Ocaina (Witotoan) (total of over 10 months spent in the field)
Mar. 1999 - Oct. 2002
Field work on Bora-Miraña (Witotoan) in Southern Colombia (total of over 10 months spent in the field)
Feb. - April 1998
Various short field trips to indigenous communities in Colombia: Wiwa, Chimila (Chibchan), Cocama (Tupian) as visiting researcher at the CCELA, Bogotá
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Membership in professional associations
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Major Grants
2012
144.992€ for the project “The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically”, DoBeS Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation
2011
27.260€ for the workshop “Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization”, DoBeS Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation
2004
273.000€ for the project “Documenting the languages of the People of the Centre, especially Bora and Ocaina (North West Amazon)”, DoBeS Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation
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Shortlists
2011
W3 Professur für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: 2. Listenplatz
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Supervision of M.A. and Ph.D. theses
2012
Marine Vuillermet (Université Lumière Lyon 2): Committee member for Ph.D. thesis "A grammar of Ese Ejja"
2012
Olga Krasnoukhova (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Committee member for Ph.D. thesis "The Noun Phrase in the Languages of South America"
since 2011
Katherine Bolaños (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): Day-to-day supervision for Ph.D. thesis "A grammar of Kakua"
2010
Helder Pereira (CIESAS, Mexico): Committee member for M.A. thesis "Los Clasificadores Nominales del Yanomama de Papiu (Brazil)"
2005-2012
Doris Fagua (Université Paris 7): Supervision of Ph.D. thesis "Description phonologique et morphosyntaxique de l'ocaina (Witoto)" (preliminary title)
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Teaching
Universität Leipzig, M.A. and Magister Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
- Semantische Typlogie (2 SWS, SS 2012)
- Typologie morphologischer Entlehnungen (2 SWS, SS 2011)
- Ethnolinguistik der Amazonassprachen (2 SWS, SS 2010)
LSA Linguistic Institute, University of California at Berkeley
- Nominal classification (6 x 2 hours, July-August 2009)
Universität Regensburg, B.A. Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
- Methoden der Sprachdokumentation (Koreanisch) (2 SWS, SS 2009, with J. Helmbrecht)
- Struktur einer nicht-indogermanischen Sprache II: Bora (2 SWS, SS 2009)
- Struktur einer nicht-indogermanischen Sprache I: Bora (2 SWS, WS 2008)
- Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten (1 SWS, WS 2008)
- Morphologie (2 SWS, WS 2008 und WS 2007)
- Methoden der Sprachdokumentation: Georgisch (2 SWS, SS 2008, with J. Helmbrecht)
- Sprachkontakt (2 SWS, SS 2008)
- Sprachtypologie (1 SWS, WS 2007)
- Sprachbedrohung und Sprachtod (2 SWS, WS 2007)
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, B.A. and Magister Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
- Amazonassprachen (2 SWS, WS 2006)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, B.A. and Magister Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
- Strukturkurs Bora-Miraña (4 SWS, SS 2006)
Workshops und Sommerschulen
- Orthography Development. Seminar with tutorial (one day) at the Universität Regensburg, August 2011
- Selecting the events to be included in a language documentation corpus. Seminar with tutorial (one day) at the Universität Regensburg, August 2011
- Fieldwork tutorial Zazaki. Fieldwork course (two weeks) at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, August 2007
- Sistemas de recolección y uso de bases de datos lingüísticos. Workshop (two days) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, February 2007
- Métodos y tecnologías de la documentación lingüística. Workshop (two days) at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, September 2006
- Orthography development. Seminar (one week) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, September 2004
- Fieldwork tutorial: Kariña (Carib). Field work course (one week) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, September 2004
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