Training and professional background
Scientific activities
Fieldwork
Awards and research grants
Other international activities
Main publications and conferences
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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 | 2012: Postdoctoral fellow. Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.
Project: Attention effects and grammatical hierarchies: observations in Ye'kwana, an Amazonian language of Venezuela. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| 2005-2011: Active member of the project Trajectoire (CNRS / Fédération de Recherche en Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques).
Project website. |
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| 2008-2011: Participated in the regular workshop Morphosyntaxe of the DDL laboratory. |
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| 2009: Participated in the Sumer Institute of the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) at the University of California, Berkeley. July 4-24. |
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| 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. |
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| Member of the organizing team of the 2008 3L Summer School in Documentation & Language Description. |
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FIELDWORK
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| 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. |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| 2012: Postdoctoral grant, Fyssen Foundation. Attention effects and grammatical hierarchies: observations in Ye'kwana, an Amazonian language of Venezuela. 12 months. |
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| 2010: Field trip grant, Institut des Amériques (IdA). |
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| 2009-2010: PhD grant, Agence Universitaire de Francophonie (AUF). |
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| 2008-2009: Field Trip Grant, Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP). Documentation of the Ye'kwana language in the Caura Basin. 6 months. |
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| 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. |
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| 2007-2008: Field trip grant, AALLED (Afrique, Amérique Latine, Langues en Danger). |
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| 2004: Regional grant for international training (BRFE) for a study abroad semester at the Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko-Turnovo, Bulgaria. |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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| Aug.-Sept. 2008 & Aug.-Oct. 2009: Invited scholar at the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon. |
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| November 2007-April 2008: Invited scholar at the CIAG (Centro de Investigaciones Antropologicas de Guayana), Ciudad Bolívar. |
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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.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
LONG VERSION / SHOW SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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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)
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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.
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Invited presentations
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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
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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
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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
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Cáceres, N., 2012, "Synchronic syllable reduction in Ye'kwana: A window into sound change", UO Linguistics Colloquium, Eugene, 12 Octobre
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Gildea, S., Cáceres, N. & Yamada, R., 2010, "Explaining Counter-Universal Split Ergativity: Three Cariban Progressive/Imperfective Ergatives", DDL, Lyon, 9 septembre
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Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2009, "Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye’kwana (Cariban)", UO Linguistics Colloquium, Eugene, 30 octobre
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Conference presentations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cáceres, N., 2013, "Pilot study on attention effects in Ye'kwana grammar", FieldLing Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, 16 avril
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cáceres, N., 2010, "Détransitivisation et voix moyenne en ye'kwana", Atelier Morphosyntaxe, DDL, Lyon, 19 mars
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Cáceres, N., 2010, "Performative modality in Ye'kwana", Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas, Universiteit Leiden, 25-26 mars
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Cáceres, N., 2010, "¿Existe una clase de adjetivos en ye'kwana?", Amazónicas 3: La estructura de las lenguas amazónicas, UNAL, Bogotá, 19-24 avril
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Cáceres, N., 2010, "La coréférentialité en ye'kwana", SWL IV, Lyon, 23-26 septembre
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Cáceres, N. & Gildea, S., 2009, "Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye’kwana (Cariban)", Workshop on Ergative Markers, CELIA, Paris, 9 novembre
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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
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Cáceres, N., 2008, "Hacia una gramática ye'kwana", communication présentée au CIAG, Ciudad Bolívar, 15 avril
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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
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Online Data
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Cáceres, N., 2011, "Documentation of Ye'kwana in the Erebato river in Venezuela", Url
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