Understanding the power that women hold in the preservation of underresourced languages.
A parallel corpus of Pear Film retellings from 9 speakers, across 3 u̱t‑Maꞌin varieties.
I explore evidence for semantic cohesion and semantic assignment criteria to U̱t‑Maꞌin noun class pairings, the distribution of loanwords semantic regularities, and the distribution of verbal nouns throughout the noun classes.
Working alongside local speakers of Pipero to develop a writing system and language materials.
Complex morphology and agreement patterns within the NP and beyond.