Andean Aymara

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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The Economist has a special edition for the holidays which includes an article entitled “Tongue Twisters” which has to do with difficult languages (for English speakers) which makes mentions of interesting aspects of various languages of the world without using much jargon. They make mention of the phonology of !Xóõ, the agglutinative properties of Turkish, and [...]

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Just returned from my final stay in Muylaque last night and in Moquegua now: one grilled chicken, a cold beer and a cool shower later.   This was by far the most productive fieldwork trip so far, not only because my methodology has improved, but also because I’ve become more well-known and trusted in the [...]

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