Andean Aymara

Readers may be interested to read that from 12-14 Jan 2011 there will be a conference on the phonology of endangered languages at CUNY.
There is a call for papers (deadline 1 Sept 2010).
Read more about it here. Note that this event is also scheduled in the event agenda.

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Tomorrow Edwin Banegas Flores (Chief Linguistic Consultant, Aymara documentation project), here for his final week in Europe, will be speaking at the eighth AIN conference (Americanists In the Netherlands). Edwin will talk about the nature of his work at the LPP lab in Paris and will touch on the phonetics and phonology of his variety [...]

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I’ve been meanig to post an update on the Muylaq’ Aymara documentation project for some time now, but things have been so busy that it’s only now that I’m getting to it. Here’s a summary of some of the latest developments:

Thanks to the help of Edwin Banegas and his family, the book of Aymara stories [...]

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Leo Wetzel’s AmazonianLinguistics website has recently posted news of Amazonicas III scheduled for 19-24 April in Bogotá. The main topics include the phonetics/phonology of laryngeal features, the expression of spatial notions, valency increasing devices in Arawakan languages, and lexical categorization. More information can be found on the site.

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MPI (with DOBES funding) has a call for papers from Master’s students for a workshop from 30 May to 4 June 2010:
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will award five student bursaries for participation in the workshop Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories and we hereby invite talented young Master’s students to submit applications. Preference will be [...]

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The Americanists in the Netherlands event, AiN6, is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen (details on their website).
I will be presenting a talk entitled ”Expressing degrees of certainty: A sketch of the Aymara evidential system”. The abstract is below. If you’re in the area, why not stop by.
The Aymara evidential system encodes [...]

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On 18 February the Americanists in the Netherlands will be meeting from 2-5 at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in room E203. The three talks will be made by Pieter Muysken and Mily Crevels, Loretta O’Connor, and myself. Muyskens will present on the “Lenguas de Bolivia” project, O’Connor will talk about geographical information systems, and I [...]

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There is a photo exhibit by Odileiz Cruz, a fellow alumnus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam open until the end of this month at CEDLA (UvA) on Keizersgracht 395-397 in Amsterdam, in which she shows some photos from her fieldwork with this group in Roraima, Brazil.
There are only a few pictures, but it is still [...]

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The Hans Rausing Endangered Language Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies is holding a one-day international workshop on Saturday 27 February 2010, 9.30am - 6.00pm.
The goal of the workshop is to explore the sustainability of endangered languages, and sustainability of research (in both theory and practice). The keynote speaker is Lenore Grenoble [...]

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Workshop: Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas
Leiden University, March 25-26 2010
The categories of mood and modality find extremely diverse realizations across languages (e.g.Palmer 2001). Consequently, there is no unanimity which notions these two categories actually comprise. The increasing availability of data on Indigenous American languages makes it now possible to take a fresh [...]

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