Andean Aymara

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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I’ve been invited to give a presentation at the Applewood Community in Amherst MA on 23 December 2009 at 19:30. The talk will cover the general aspects of the fieldwork, a brief introduction to the Aymara language, and aspects of the Muylaque culture. Feel free to come.

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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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