Spatial
language and
cognition in Mesoamerica
Alejandra
Capistrán
Alejandra Capistrán is a professor at the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, a Mexican
university located in Mexico City.
Current research: Ph. dissertation about double object
constructions and argument realization in
P’orhépecha; inherent ditransitive
stems and sentences with causative, applicative and spatial suffixes
are analyzed.
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Gabriela
Pérez Báez
Gabriela
Pérez with traditional
clothing
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Gabriela
Pérez Báez is a
Ph.D. Candidate at the University
at Buffalo, a Visiting Research
Scholar in the Linguistics Department at the City University of New
York's Graduate Center and a Researcher with the Project for the
Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica. Her doctoral
research
centers on the impact of
emigration on the community of speakers of San Lucas
Quiaviní Zapotec and the influence its mirror
community in Los Angeles, California has on the survival prospects of
this language. In her role as Researcher with the Project for the
Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica, Gabriela is responsible
for elicitation and development of a lexical database of
Juchitán Zapotec. In addition, Gabriela is engaged in the
description of the semantics of spatial
language in this variety of Zapotec, with a focus on the properties of
body part terms used in locative description. |
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