Grammar in the Field:
Languages of the Americas and beyond

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
July 4, 2025


organised by YucSoc



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Venue

We are looking forward to welcoming you at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the 4th of July 2025.

The workshop takes place at

Dorotheenstraße 24
10099 Berlin
Room 3.246


Program

July 4th, 2025

Time Speaker Title
Part 1: Grammar in the Field and Beyond
09:30-09:40 Welcome & Introduction
09:40-10:20 Uli Reich & André Wesley Dantas de Amorim (Freie Universität Berlin) Sprachen im Fluss: Modalität und Informationsstruktur am Rio Negro
10:20-11:00 Jozina Vander Klok (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) On the syntax of auxiliaries in Javanese
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:10 Florian Ertz & Robin Hollenbach & Stavros Skopeteas (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Number and Definiteness in Yucatec Maya: The Effects of Language Contact and Increasing Bilingualism
12:10-12:50 Hendrik Pigola (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Adverbial focus constructions in Yucatec Maya
12:50-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-14:55 Nico Lehmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) The impersonal use of second person markers in Yucatec Maya
Part 2: Resources from the Field and Beyond
15:00-15:40 Michael Dürr (Freie Universität Berlin) Reviving words: Editing colonial grammars and dictionaries from Mesoamerica
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:40 Harry Thomaß (Freie Universität Berlin) The significance of digital language archives for indigenous languages and their speakers
16:40-17:10 Nico Lehmann & Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Ressources on Yucatec Maya: CoCoYum & Lang*Reg-Yuc
17:10-17:30 Farewell
17:30- Social event tba

Contact us

hendrik.pigola(at)hu-berlin.de