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Natalia CÁCERES

Post-Doc

 

natalia.caceres@gmail.com

Teams :       LED-TDR 

  Training and professional background
  Scientific activities
  Fieldwork
  Awards and research grants
  Other international activities
  Main publications and conferences

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND


 

2012: Postdoctoral fellow. Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.
Project: Attention effects and grammatical hierarchies: observations in Ye'kwana, an Amazonian language of Venezuela.

 

2011: PhD in Language Sciences, DDL - Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Dissertation title: Functional-typological grammar of Ye'kwana, Cariban language of Venezuela (PDF).
Advisors: Colette Grinevald (Lyon 2), José Álvarez (LUZ).
Committee: José Álvarez, Spike Gildea, Colette Grinevald, Antoine Guillaume, Francesc Queixalós.

 

2007: MA in Language Sciences, DDL - Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Thesis title: Introduction à la langue des Ye'kwana: Profil sociolinguistique et esquisse phonologique.
Advisor: Colette Grinevald (Lyon 2).

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES


 

2005-2011: Active member of the project Trajectoire (CNRS / Fédération de Recherche en Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques). Project website.

 

2008-2011: Participated in the regular workshop Morphosyntaxe of the DDL laboratory.

 

2009: Participated in the Sumer Institute of the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) at the University of California, Berkeley. July 4-24.

 

2006-2009: Member of the project Afrique Amérique Latine Langues en Danger (AALLED) of the CNRS institute Dynamique du Langage (DDL) and the University Lyon 2.

 

Member of the organizing team of the 2008 3L Summer School in Documentation & Language Description.

 

FIELDWORK


 

Ye'kwana language in Venezuela (Maripa, Ciudad Bolívar and Boca de Piña and Santa María de Erebato villages) : July-August 2006, November 2007-April 2008, October 2008-April 2009, July-August 2010, March 2012, August 2012, May 2013, February-March 2014.

 

AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS


 

2012: Postdoctoral grant, Fyssen Foundation. Attention effects and grammatical hierarchies: observations in Ye'kwana, an Amazonian language of Venezuela. 12 months.

 

2010: Field trip grant, Institut des Amériques (IdA).

 

2009-2010: PhD grant, Agence Universitaire de Francophonie (AUF).

 

2008-2009: Field Trip Grant, Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP). Documentation of the Ye'kwana language in the Caura Basin. 6 months.

 

2008-2009: Mobility grants, Rhône-Alpes region (Explo'RA DOC) and Ministry of Education (Aires Culturelles) for a 6 month research visit at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Oregon.

 

2007-2008: Field trip grant, AALLED (Afrique, Amérique Latine, Langues en Danger).

 

2004: Regional grant for international training (BRFE) for a study abroad semester at the Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko-Turnovo, Bulgaria.

 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES


 

Aug.-Sept. 2008 & Aug.-Oct. 2009: Invited scholar at the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon.

 

November 2007-April 2008: Invited scholar at the CIAG (Centro de Investigaciones Antropologicas de Guayana), Ciudad Bolívar.

 

LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SKILLS

    Languages:
    • Spanish: Native.
    • French, English: Native like.
    • Ye'kwana: Ability to communicate in the language and partial understanding of conversations.
    • Portuguese, Italian: Understanding of spoken and written language.
    • Bulgarian, German, Japanese: Prior exposure.
    Language analysis software:
    • Toolbox: Advanced user.
    • ELAN, Praat: Intermediate user.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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PhDs and master thesis
 

Cáceres, N., 2011, "Grammaire fonctionnelle-typologique du ye'kwana, langue caribe du Venezuela", Thèse, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 464 p. (PDF, 7MB)

 

Cáceres, N., 2007, "Introduction à la langue des Ye'kwana: Profil sociolinguistique et esquisse phonologique", Mémoire M2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 163 p.
Invited presentations
 

Cáceres, N. & Rosés Labrada, J., 2014, "Terrains et profils sociolinguistiques : Mako et Ye'kwana", Atelier LED-TDR, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, France, 17 février 2014
 

Cáceres, N., 2014, "Investigar efectos de atención en la gramática oral: desafíos y resultados", Seminário do Núcleo de Tipologia Linguística, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brésil, 30 octobre
 

Cáceres, N., 2014, "Lo que el causativo reflexivo no se hizo hacer a sí mismo en ye'kwana", Seminário do Núcleo de Tipologia Linguística, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brésil, 12 novembre
 

Cáceres, N., 2012, "Synchronic syllable reduction in Ye'kwana: A window into sound change", UO Linguistics Colloquium, Eugene, 12 Octobre
 

Gildea, S., Cáceres, N. & Yamada, R., 2010, "Explaining Counter-Universal Split Ergativity: Three Cariban Progressive/Imperfective Ergatives", DDL, Lyon, 9 septembre
 

Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2009, "Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye’kwana (Cariban)", UO Linguistics Colloquium, Eugene, 30 octobre
Conference presentations
 

Cáceres, N., 2014, "Pronombres con función innovadora en predicados no verbales ye'kwana", Amazonivas V, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi / Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brésil, 26-30 mai
 

Meira, S., Cáceres, N. & Yamada, R., 2014, "REFLEXIVE > MIDDLE > PASSIVE > AGENTIVE PASSIVE in the Cariban family", Voice Systems in Diachrony: a Comparative Perspective, Università di Pavia, Pavie, Italie, 11 septembre
 

Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2014, "Patient Nominalization > Passive in Panare and Ye’kwana (Cariban)", Voice Systems in Diachrony: a Comparative Perspective, Università di Pavia, Pavie, Italie, 11 septembre
 

Cáceres, N., 2013, "Syllable reduction in Ye'kwana: Morphologized phonology", WAIL 16: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, 26-27 avril
 

Cáceres, N., 2013, "Pilot study on attention effects in Ye'kwana grammar", FieldLing Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, 16 avril
 

Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2013, "La construcción imperfectiva del ye'kwana (caribe)", Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VI, Universidad de Texas, Austin, 24-26 octobre
 

Cáceres, N., 2012, "Fish Film and Hierarchy animation data: experimenting with collecting data for attention effects on grammar in remote fieldwork conditions", COGLING Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1 Novembre
 

Cáceres, N., 2011, "Are there any compound words in Ye'kwana? A closer look at genitive constructions and postpositional phrases. ", Word formation in South American languages, Université de Leipzig, 24 juin
 

Cáceres, N., 2011, "Les indices de personne sur les verbes en ye'kwana (famille Caribe, Vénézuela): un système inverse?", Journée d’étude sur les langues d’Amazonie. Systèmes de marquage des personnes, ISH, Lyon, 22 mars
 

Cáceres, N., 2010, "The motion marker ta~tan in Cariban languages: one for all? ", Verbal markers of motion and/or direction in the Amazonian Languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region (and beyond), Lyon, 10 mars
 

Cáceres, N., 2010, "Détransitivisation et voix moyenne en ye'kwana", Atelier Morphosyntaxe, DDL, Lyon, 19 mars
 

Cáceres, N., 2010, "Performative modality in Ye'kwana", Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas, Universiteit Leiden, 25-26 mars
 

Cáceres, N., 2010, "¿Existe una clase de adjetivos en ye'kwana?", Amazónicas 3: La estructura de las lenguas amazónicas, UNAL, Bogotá, 19-24 avril
 

Cáceres, N., 2010, "La coréférentialité en ye'kwana", SWL IV, Lyon, 23-26 septembre
 

Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2009, "Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye’kwana (Cariban)", Workshop on Ergative Markers, CELIA, Paris, 9 novembre
 

Cáceres, N., 2008, "Even when conditions seem ideal it is still hard: Fieldwork among the Ye’kwana of Venezuela", Colloque étudiant de l'Ecole d'Eté Lyon 2008, Lyon, 28 juin
 

Cáceres, N., 2008, "Hacia una gramática ye'kwana", communication présentée au CIAG, Ciudad Bolívar, 15 avril
 

Cáceres, N., 2008, "Sistema prosodico en Ye'kwana a nivel de la palabra", A Estrutura de Línguas Amazônicas: Fonologia e Gramática II, Recife, 26 novembre
Online Data
 

Cáceres, N., 2011, "Documentation of Ye'kwana in the Erebato river in Venezuela", Url


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