Interests

Interests

Linguistics: Amerindian Languages (typology), Old French (philology), Missionary Linguistics (colonial grammars and vocabularies).

Publications

1998, 'En el país de las maravillas' in Yumtzilob 10/ 3, pp. 277-292. Leiden: Universitaire Drukkerij.

2000, 'Fray Pedro de la Mata, Arte de la lengua cholona (1748), Una gramática colonial: problemas en su uso' in Actas 1 Congreso de lenguas indígenas de Sudamérica, pp.317-328. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma.

2002, 'Nominal morphophonological processes observed in Pedro de la Mata's Arte de la lengua cholona (1748)' in Current Studies on South American Languages, ILLA, 3, pp. 103-110. Leiden: CNWS.

2005, 'Cholón Sounds Reconstructed: A symbol analysis' in Missionary Linguistics II/Linguística misionera II, Orthografy and Phonology, ed. by Otto Zwartjes and Cristina Altman, SIHOLS 109, pp. 181-190. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2005, Eighteenth-Century Cholón, 533 p. Utrecht: LOT.

2007, Pedro de la Mata, Arte de la lengua cholona (1748) with a prologue of Willem F.H. Adelaar, 257 p. Frankfurt/ Madrid: Vervuert/ Iberoamericana.

2007, 'Phonological interpretation of de la Mata's Cholón (1748)' in Lengua indígenas de América del Sur: Estudios descriptivo-tipológicos y sus contribuciones para la lingüística teórica, ed. by Andrés Romero-Figueroa, Ana Fernández Garay, Ángel Corbera Mori, pp. 61-75. Caracas: UCAB.

2008, 'Two Colonial Grammars: Tradition and Innovation' in Asian Journal of latin American Studies 21/ 1, pp. 215-255. Seoul: The Latin American Studies Association of Korea.

2009, 'The Vocabulary of the Lengua de Maynas, Ms. Egerton 2881 of the British Library' in Missionary Linguistics IV/Linguística misionera IV, Lexicography, ed. by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín, Thomas C. Smith-Stark, SIHOLS 114, pp. 211-231. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2010, Lengua de Maynas, ms. Egerton 2881 de la British Library with a prologue of Pieter C. Muysken, Languages of the World/ Materials 478, 179 p. München: Lincom Europe.

2011, 'Subordination in Cholón' in Subordination in Native South American Languages, ed. by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken, Typological Studies in Language, 97, pp. 193-219. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2011, 'Some Cholón discourse particles and Quecha homologues', in Lenguas indígenas de América, ed. Andrés Romero Figeuroa , pp. 11-28. Caracas: Mercantil/ Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.