Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82755 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia |
| PRENOMES | Luis Miguel |
| SOBRENOME | Rojas-Berscia |
| ASSINATURA | ROJAS-BERSCIA L M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0492-9429 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Hacia una lingüística y filosofía del lenguaje shawi
En este artículo realizamos una primera y breve exploración en el repertorio epistemológico shawi/chayahuita en torno al fenómeno lingüístico. Siguiendo la línea propuesta en Favaron Peyón (2024) en aras de dar voz a distintas reflexiones poéticas, retóricas y teóricas en torno a la ‘palabra’ entre los pueblos amerindios, proveemos un primer acercamiento al concepto de nanan ‘palabra, lengua’, así como a una de las manifestaciones más íntimas de …
When Your Pronominal Marking Matters during a Pandemic
In this communication, I focus on Shawi forms of address used in Peruvian State posters during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on the Peruvian Indigenous population. A recent study showed that Indigenous people had 3.18 times the risk of infection and 0.4 times the mortality risk of the general population in Peru. The Shawi have not been included among the most heavily affected. A preliminary descriptive and critica…
The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof
In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of the focus and a free relative clause. The free relative clause is headed by a determiner, which takes the form a in the case of the SFC. The determiner a is not found anywhere else in the language ou…
La última canción
El cholón o seeptsá es una lengua indígena peruana considerada extinta o durmiente. En el presente artículo, mostramos evidencias de la existencia de recordadores de esta lengua en la actualidad, en la forma de datos recolectados en el campo en la ciudad de Juanjuí con el apoyo de Martha Pérez Valderrama, recordadora de la lengua cholona y nieta de una de las últimas hablantes activas de la lengua, Victoria Cerquera Ojeda. Describimos los detalle…
Antifunctionality in Shawi split ergativity, a processing analysis
In this article, as a follow-up of Rojas-Berscia and Bourdeau (2017), we study morphological ergativity in Shawi (Kawapanan) using a dedicated experimental design. Shawi displays ergative-marking in an opposite direction from Silverstein's Nominal Hierarchy (NH) (Silverstein 1976). We claim this pattern to be antifunctional, given the lack of internal syntactic cues that explain why ergativity is omitted or completely obligatory in cases where th…
Author Correction
Embedding in Shawi narrations
In this article, we provide the first quantitative account of the frequent use of embedding in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Peruvian Northwestern Amazonia. We collected a corpus of ninety-two Frog Stories (Mayer 1969) from three different field sites in 2015 and 2016. Using the glossed corpus as our data, we conducted a generalised mixed model analysis, where we predicted the use of embedding with several macrosocial variables, such as g…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
O português dos jovens da aldeia Afukuri. Notas sobre o contato linguístico no Alto Xingu
Com base num corpus sucinto recolhido e analisado pelos alunos do ensino médio da etnia Kuikuro da aldeia Afukuri no Alto Xingu, apresentamos neste estudo preliminar uma descrição de alguns aspetos fonológicos e morfossintáticos do português dos jovens da aldeia Afukuri. Apesar de o português estândar se encontrar progressivamente penetrando nos repertórios linguísticos desses jovens por causa da escolarização quase onipresente nestes dias nas al…
Shawi (Chayahuita)
Shawi1is the language of the indigenous Shawi/Chayahuita people in Northwestern Amazonia, Peru. It belongs to the Kawapanan language family, together with its moribund sister language, Shiwilu. It is spoken by about 21,000 speakers (see Rojas-Berscia 2013) in the provinces of Alto Amazonas and Datem del Marañón in the region of Loreto and in the northern part of the region of San Martín, being one of the most vital languages in the country (see F…
The Marañón-Huallaga exchange route
In this article we claim that stone classifier-based numeral systems in a number of unrelated North-western South American language families/languages such as Kawapanan, Cholón-Hibito, Munichi, and, tentatively, Quingnam emerged due to calquing or loan translation (Weinreich 1963; Epps 2006, 2013). In addition, although the donor language remains unknown, we argue for this to be a case of a poorly attested grammaticalisation path of numeral class…
Optional or Syntactic Ergativity in Shawi
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constructions in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Northwestern Amazonia. We offer a comparison with its sister language, Shiwilu, for which an optional ergativity-marking pattern has been claimed There is not enough evidence, however, to claim the exact same for Shawi. Ergativity in the language is driven by mere syntactic motivations. One of the mo…
Vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California
Las lenguas yumanas han recibido poca atención en el campo de la sociolingüística mexicana en las últimas décadas. En aras de suplir esta falta, presentamos un primer estudio sobre la vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California, México. En tanto en el área estudiada se encuentran en coexistencia lenguas como el castellano mexicano y el ko'ahl, estas también forman parte del estudio. Esta primera aproximación tiene…
Mayna, the lost Kawapanan language
The origins of the Mayna language, formerly spoken in northwest Peruvian Amazonia, remain a mystery for most scholars. Several discussions on it took place in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; however, none arrived at a consensus. Apart from an article written by Taylor & Descola (1981), suggesting a relationship with the Jivaroan language family, little to nothing has been said about it for the last half of the 20th cent…
The Chachapuya Language and Proto-Kawapanan
The study of onomastics in the south of the modern region of Amazonas in the northeast of Peru has shed light on the existence of a pre-Inca language conventionally named Chacha. Unfortunately, the almost absolute lack of documentary evidence for the existence of this language obscures research on it. This linguistic region, characterised by toponyms carrying -lap, -mal, -gat, -lun, and -wala endings, coincides with the core of expansion of the p…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California
Las lenguas yumanas han recibido poca atención en el campo de la sociolingüística mexicana en las últimas décadas. En aras de suplir esta falta, presentamos un primer estudio sobre la vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California, México. En tanto en el área estudiada se encuentran en coexistencia lenguas como el castellano mexicano y el ko'ahl, estas también forman parte del estudio. Esta primera aproximación tiene…
Mayna, the lost Kawapanan language
The origins of the Mayna language, formerly spoken in northwest Peruvian Amazonia, remain a mystery for most scholars. Several discussions on it took place in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; however, none arrived at a consensus. Apart from an article written by Taylor & Descola (1981), suggesting a relationship with the Jivaroan language family, little to nothing has been said about it for the last half of the 20th cent…
The Marañón-Huallaga exchange route
In this article we claim that stone classifier-based numeral systems in a number of unrelated North-western South American language families/languages such as Kawapanan, Cholón-Hibito, Munichi, and, tentatively, Quingnam emerged due to calquing or loan translation (Weinreich 1963; Epps 2006, 2013). In addition, although the donor language remains unknown, we argue for this to be a case of a poorly attested grammaticalisation path of numeral class…
The Chachapuya Language and Proto-Kawapanan
The study of onomastics in the south of the modern region of Amazonas in the northeast of Peru has shed light on the existence of a pre-Inca language conventionally named Chacha. Unfortunately, the almost absolute lack of documentary evidence for the existence of this language obscures research on it. This linguistic region, characterised by toponyms carrying -lap, -mal, -gat, -lun, and -wala endings, coincides with the core of expansion of the p…
Embedding in Shawi narrations
In this article, we provide the first quantitative account of the frequent use of embedding in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Peruvian Northwestern Amazonia. We collected a corpus of ninety-two Frog Stories (Mayer 1969) from three different field sites in 2015 and 2016. Using the glossed corpus as our data, we conducted a generalised mixed model analysis, where we predicted the use of embedding with several macrosocial variables, such as g…
Shawi (Chayahuita)
Shawi1is the language of the indigenous Shawi/Chayahuita people in Northwestern Amazonia, Peru. It belongs to the Kawapanan language family, together with its moribund sister language, Shiwilu. It is spoken by about 21,000 speakers (see Rojas-Berscia 2013) in the provinces of Alto Amazonas and Datem del Marañón in the region of Loreto and in the northern part of the region of San Martín, being one of the most vital languages in the country (see F…
Mayna, the lost Kawapanan language
The origins of the Mayna language, formerly spoken in northwest Peruvian Amazonia, remain a mystery for most scholars. Several discussions on it took place in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; however, none arrived at a consensus. Apart from an article written by Taylor & Descola (1981), suggesting a relationship with the Jivaroan language family, little to nothing has been said about it for the last half of the 20th cent…
Vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California
Las lenguas yumanas han recibido poca atención en el campo de la sociolingüística mexicana en las últimas décadas. En aras de suplir esta falta, presentamos un primer estudio sobre la vitalidad lingüística de la lengua paipai de Santa Catarina, Baja California, México. En tanto en el área estudiada se encuentran en coexistencia lenguas como el castellano mexicano y el ko'ahl, estas también forman parte del estudio. Esta primera aproximación tiene…
Optional or Syntactic Ergativity in Shawi
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constructions in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Northwestern Amazonia. We offer a comparison with its sister language, Shiwilu, for which an optional ergativity-marking pattern has been claimed There is not enough evidence, however, to claim the exact same for Shawi. Ergativity in the language is driven by mere syntactic motivations. One of the mo…
The Marañón-Huallaga exchange route
In this article we claim that stone classifier-based numeral systems in a number of unrelated North-western South American language families/languages such as Kawapanan, Cholón-Hibito, Munichi, and, tentatively, Quingnam emerged due to calquing or loan translation (Weinreich 1963; Epps 2006, 2013). In addition, although the donor language remains unknown, we argue for this to be a case of a poorly attested grammaticalisation path of numeral class…
O português dos jovens da aldeia Afukuri. Notas sobre o contato linguístico no Alto Xingu
Com base num corpus sucinto recolhido e analisado pelos alunos do ensino médio da etnia Kuikuro da aldeia Afukuri no Alto Xingu, apresentamos neste estudo preliminar uma descrição de alguns aspetos fonológicos e morfossintáticos do português dos jovens da aldeia Afukuri. Apesar de o português estândar se encontrar progressivamente penetrando nos repertórios linguísticos desses jovens por causa da escolarização quase onipresente nestes dias nas al…
Shawi (Chayahuita)
Shawi1is the language of the indigenous Shawi/Chayahuita people in Northwestern Amazonia, Peru. It belongs to the Kawapanan language family, together with its moribund sister language, Shiwilu. It is spoken by about 21,000 speakers (see Rojas-Berscia 2013) in the provinces of Alto Amazonas and Datem del Marañón in the region of Loreto and in the northern part of the region of San Martín, being one of the most vital languages in the country (see F…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Author Correction
Embedding in Shawi narrations
In this article, we provide the first quantitative account of the frequent use of embedding in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Peruvian Northwestern Amazonia. We collected a corpus of ninety-two Frog Stories (Mayer 1969) from three different field sites in 2015 and 2016. Using the glossed corpus as our data, we conducted a generalised mixed model analysis, where we predicted the use of embedding with several macrosocial variables, such as g…
The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof
In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of the focus and a free relative clause. The free relative clause is headed by a determiner, which takes the form a in the case of the SFC. The determiner a is not found anywhere else in the language ou…
La última canción
El cholón o seeptsá es una lengua indígena peruana considerada extinta o durmiente. En el presente artículo, mostramos evidencias de la existencia de recordadores de esta lengua en la actualidad, en la forma de datos recolectados en el campo en la ciudad de Juanjuí con el apoyo de Martha Pérez Valderrama, recordadora de la lengua cholona y nieta de una de las últimas hablantes activas de la lengua, Victoria Cerquera Ojeda. Describimos los detalle…
Antifunctionality in Shawi split ergativity, a processing analysis
In this article, as a follow-up of Rojas-Berscia and Bourdeau (2017), we study morphological ergativity in Shawi (Kawapanan) using a dedicated experimental design. Shawi displays ergative-marking in an opposite direction from Silverstein's Nominal Hierarchy (NH) (Silverstein 1976). We claim this pattern to be antifunctional, given the lack of internal syntactic cues that explain why ergativity is omitted or completely obligatory in cases where th…
The Chachapuya Language and Proto-Kawapanan
The study of onomastics in the south of the modern region of Amazonas in the northeast of Peru has shed light on the existence of a pre-Inca language conventionally named Chacha. Unfortunately, the almost absolute lack of documentary evidence for the existence of this language obscures research on it. This linguistic region, characterised by toponyms carrying -lap, -mal, -gat, -lun, and -wala endings, coincides with the core of expansion of the p…
When Your Pronominal Marking Matters during a Pandemic
In this communication, I focus on Shawi forms of address used in Peruvian State posters during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on the Peruvian Indigenous population. A recent study showed that Indigenous people had 3.18 times the risk of infection and 0.4 times the mortality risk of the general population in Peru. The Shawi have not been included among the most heavily affected. A preliminary descriptive and critica…
Hacia una lingüística y filosofía del lenguaje shawi
En este artículo realizamos una primera y breve exploración en el repertorio epistemológico shawi/chayahuita en torno al fenómeno lingüístico. Siguiendo la línea propuesta en Favaron Peyón (2024) en aras de dar voz a distintas reflexiones poéticas, retóricas y teóricas en torno a la ‘palabra’ entre los pueblos amerindios, proveemos un primer acercamiento al concepto de nanan ‘palabra, lengua’, así como a una de las manifestaciones más íntimas de …
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