Carlos Barrientos Ugarte
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Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
carlos_barrientos_ugarte@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a PhD student in the Leipzig School of Human Origins, a joint program of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology with the University of Leipzig's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics. In my PhD, I develop algorithmic and computational methods for reconstructing and comparing language histories. My research integrates traditional linguistic approaches—like the comparative method, typological theory, and fieldwork—into transparent, monitorable computational workflows. I am also interested in language documentation and building accessible and utilizable resources for language comparison. More broadly, my research investigates the diachronic interplay between cognition, diversity, migration, and contact in South American societies from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Curriculum Vitae
| 2024 - to date | Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Sciences at the IMPRS “The Leipzig School of Human Origins:” Thesis topic: “Algorithmic and Computational Approaches to Language Evolution” |
| 2021 - 2024 | Master of Arts in Linguistics at University of Leipzig Master’s thesis: “The grammar of expressions for limbs in North East Peruvian Amazonia: A typological comparison of their classification and morphosyntax” |
| 2015 - 2021 | Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Bachelor’s thesis: “Una aproximación tipológica hacia los índices argumentales en la Amazonía” |