Andean Aymara

Had the chance to visit the linguistic department at the University of Utah last February and was really impressed with the impressive faculty, friendly students, and great resources. This is definitely an ideal opportunity for prospective students.
On behalf of Lyle Campbell:

We (Dept of Linguistics, University of Utah) expect to have 2 or 3 Graduate Research [...]

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Anyone who has looked at agglutinative languages like Aymara or Quechua has noticed that oftentimes a single word in such a language corresponds to an entire sentence in a Germanic or Romance one. Usually that agglutinative word is pretty big, containing a handful of both nominal and verbal morphemes – but sometimes even [...]

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Greetings from Moquegua. Arrived here yesterday from Ichuña where I am working on the comparative phonology for this project. Although Ichuña is inhabited mainly by Quechua speakers, I have a handful of Aymara-speaking friends there who are interested in participating in this aspect of the research. In Moquegua for a brief one-night stay before returning [...]

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Greetings from Moquegua. Arrived here yesterday from Ichuña where I am working on the comparative phonology for this project. Although Ichuña is inhabited mainly by Quechua speakers, I have a handful of Aymara-speaking friends there who are interested in participating in this aspect of the research.
In Moquegua for a brief one-night stay before returning the [...]

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Esta viernes Elmer Banegas Flores y yo vamos a dar una charla a la Alianza Ichuña - Béligca en Ichuña, Moquegua. Vamos a discutir la lingüística y trabajo de campo en una manera general y después hablamos sobre nuestro progreso con el proyecto de documentación en Muylaque. ¡Sean invitados!
This Thursday, Edwin Banegas Flores and I [...]

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Greetings from Tacna. I just thought I’d take this opportunity to make a quick update about plans here in Peru. About three days ago I left Muylaque for Moquegua. Yesterday I arrived in Tacna to do a quick visa run into Chile, and spent the night here. Today returning to Moquegua before heading off to [...]

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Thanks to the generosity of Alyn Thayer and Noreen LeMieux, in mid-Oct all of the roughly 50 children of Mulyaque lined up in front of the grammar school to receive a small package from these donors. Each child was given a toothbrush, toothpaste, a bar of soap, two educational activity books, a set of pens, [...]

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As look would have it, my first night in back in Moquegua after nearly two months in Muylaque proved to be an especially difficult one to sleep through. Last night, first at around 9pm and then, much stronger, at 3am the tremor of a 6.3 earthquake in northern Chile arrived in Moquegua and traveled as [...]

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