Training and professional background
Research interests
Scientific activities
Fieldwork
Awards and research grants
Participation in research projects
Teaching
Main publications and conferences
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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- 2022-currently: PhD student. Dissertation temporary title: "Documentation and description of Yamalero, a Guahiban language in the Colombian Eastern Plains". PhD in cotutelle between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Eulàlia Bonet & Francesc Torres-Tamarit) and the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Antoine Guillaume).
- 2021-2022: MA in Language Description and Documentation, cum laude (Leiden University). MA thesis: A phonological description of Yamalero, the language of ethnic Yaruro in the Colombian Eastern Plains, supervised by Rik van Gijn and Bert Botma.
- 2010-2014: BA in Linguistics (University of Barcelona)
Experience
- 2017-2021: Lecturer of Catalan Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
- 2015-2017: Computational linguist (Inbenta)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| - Guahiban languages
- Amazonian languages
- Language documentation
- Linguistic typology
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| Organization of the II Jornada Llengua i Societat Carme Junyent: Tipologia Fonètica i Fonològica [II Carme Junyent Language and Society Workshop: Phonetic and Phonological Typology]. University of Girona, Spain. 10th October 2025.
Organization of the VII Congrés Internacional de l’Associació de Joves Investigadors en Llengua i Literatura Catalanes [VII International Conference of the Society of Early-Stage Researchers in Catalan Language and Literature] (VII CIAJILLC). Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Barcelona, Spain. 20-22 March 2024. |
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FIELDWORK
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| 2026 [expected]. Yamalero language (Guahiban). 60 days. El Calvario/Únuma (municipality of Paz de Ariporo, Casanare department, Colombia).
2024. Yamalero language (Guahiban). 150 days. El Calvario/Únuma (municipality of Paz de Ariporo, Casanare department, Colombia).
2023. Yamalero language (Guahiban). 53 days. El Calvario/Únuma (municipality of Paz de Ariporo, Casanare department, Colombia).
2022. Yamalero language (Guahiban). 30 days. El Calvario/Únuma (municipality of Paz de Ariporo, Casanare department, Colombia). |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| 2023: Jesús Tuson Prize for Language Diversity. Awarded by the Xarxa Vives d’Universitats for his MA thesis “Phonological description of Yamalero, the language of ethnic Yaruro in the Colombian Eastern Plains”.
2023: Connecting the Colombian Yaruro with their Venezuelan ancestors: phase 1 (9.915$), awarded by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research (1.2023).
2023: A community-based documentation of Yamalero’s traditional practices, a Guahiban language in the Colombian Eastern Plains (7.432€), awarded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (declined for the Firebird Foundation grant).
2022: PhD grant, awarded by the Spanish Ministery of Science and Innovation (PRE2021-098037)
2021. Preliminary documentation of the Yamalero language (1.200€), awarded by the Leiden International Students Fund (L214147-3-45).
2014. Eva Monrós award (honorable mention). Awarded by the Department of Linguistics of the University of Barcelona to the best BA thesis in Linguistics for the dissertation “El sistema de possessió del català: un estudi des de la perspectiva de la possessió inalienable” [Catalan kinship system: a study from the perspective of inalienable possession]
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
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| 2024-2027. La interacción entre la fonología y los procesos de derivación y flexión en las
lenguas románicas: retos actuales para las teorías de la interfaz morfología-fonología (PID2023-150846NB-C32). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
PI: Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
2022-2025. Phonology and its interaction with other components of grammar (PID2020-113971GB-C22). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
PI: Eulàlia Bonet (Autonomous University of Barcelona) |
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TEACHING
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| Tipologia Lingüística [Linguistic Typology] (Licence 2, 1 ECTS)
Fall semester 2024
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Tipologia Lingüística [Linguistic Typology] (Licence 2, 3 ECTS)
Fall semester 2023
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gramàtica descriptiva i normativa: del so al mot [Descriptive and Prescriptive Catalan: from the sound to the word] (Licence 1, 1.5 ECTS)
Fall semester 2023
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Ginebra, D., 2022, "A phonological description of Yamalero, the language of ethnic Yaruro in the Colombian Eastern Plains", MA thesis, Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University
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Chapters in books
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Ginebra, D., Accepted, " Les llengües de l’Amèrica del Sud [The languages of South America]. ", in Manual de les llengües del món [Handbook of the World Languages], Comellas, P. (ed), Vic (Spain), Eumo Editorial
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Journals
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Bardají, M., Ginebra, D., Ventayol-Boada, A., Garcia-Laguia, A., Ferrerós Pagès, C., Bargiela, V. & Badosa Roldós, A., 2025, "Una perspectiva tipològica de les causes de la substitució lingüística [A typological perspective to the causes of language endangerment]", Llengua, societat i comunicació , 23, pp. 6-17
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Ferrerós Pagès, C., Bardají, M., Badosa Roldós, A., Bargiela, V., Garcia-Laguia, A., Ginebra, D. & Ventayol-Boada, A., 2025, "Símptomes del procés de substitució lingüística: un estudi de tipologia sociolingüística [Symptoms of the language replacement process: a study in sociolinguistic typology]", Llengua, societat i comunicació, 23, pp. 18-29
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Invited and keynote conferences
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Ginebra, D., 2025, "The expression of directionality in the grammar of Yamalero"DiLiS seminar, Lyon (France), April 14th 2025.
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Invited presentations
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Ginebra, D., 2023, "Fonología y clasificación del yamalero, una lengua guahibo de los Llanos Orientales", Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia), 27/03/2023
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Ginebra, D., 2023, "La lingüística de camp: creació i anàlisi de corpus amb ELAN i FLEx", University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), 20/04/2023
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Ginebra, D., 2022, "Descripció gramatical de la llengua yamalero (Colòmbia): estat de la qüestió i perspectives de futur.", University of the Balearic Islands (online), 25/11/2023
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Ginebra, D., 2022, "Característiques tipològiques del sikuani, una llengua polisintètica de Colòmbia", Autonomous University of Barcelona (Cerdanyola, Spain), 17/11/2022
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Conference presentations
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Ginebra, D., 2025, " The polyfunctionality of directional elements of Yamalero", Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Online, January 24-26 2025.
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Ginebra, D., 2025, "The pervasive reality status distinction in the grammar of Yamalero (Guahiban, Colombia)", Emerging Topics in Typology 3, Max Plankt Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany), June 3-5 2025
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Ginebra, D., 2025, "Reality status as a superordinate category in the grammar of Yamalero (Guahiban)", Amazonicas X, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém (Brazil), August 12-16 2025
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Ginebra, D., 2025, "A split-S alignment system in Yamalero (Guahiban, Colombia)", Syntax of the World’s Languages X, Potsdam University (Germany), September 8-11 2025
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Ginebra, D., 2024, " The third high vowel in Yamalero: arguments favoring /ɯ/ instead of /ɨ/. ", Symposium on Amazonian languages (SAL 5), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA), March 29-30 2024
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Newspaper article
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Ginebra, D., 2025, "“I tu, això, com ho saps?” [And you, how do you know that?]", Vilaweb, Online, 5th July 2025
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Online Data
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Ginebra, D., 2025, " A collaborative documentation of the Yamalero language spoken by the Yaruro people from Colombia", Url
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