Jaime Pérez González is a Tseltal (Maya) researcher, writer, and translator from Tenango, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. He is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his master’s in American-Indian Linguistics at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, Mexico).
Since 2008, he has worked on different Tseltal language documentation projects as a collaborator and as a research assistant, and as a researcher. Among the topics he has worked on during these projects are Dialectology and Lexicography (building dictionaries). He started to work on Mocho’ (a cousin Mayan language) in 2015, and he is currently the Principal Investigator of the project “Documentation of Mocho’ (Mayan): Language Preservation through Community Awareness and Engagement” sponsored by the Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP). His research goes from Descriptive Linguistics, Language Documentation and Language revitalization. He has written about fieldwork methodologies, and he is currently working on a Descriptive Grammar of Mocho’.
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Ep. 50: Field Notes Finale! Martha Tsutsui Billins & Laura Tsutsui on Amami Sociolinguistic Research
Ep. 49: Alexandra Philbin on Irish and Catalan Language Research & Revitalization
Ep. 48: Yulha Lhawa on Khroskyabs Language Documentation & Revitalization
Ep. 47: Karolina Grzech on Evidentiality and Epistemicity in Quechuan Languages
Ep. 46: Kate Lindsey on Idi and Ende Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea
Ep. 45: Patrick Heinrich on Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Revitalization
Ep. 44: Myfany Turpin on Australian Aboriginal Song-poetry and Documentation
Ep. 43: Language Documentation & Revitalization in Canada with Nicholas Welch
Ep. 42: Michelle Kamigaki-Baron on Pidgin & Secwepemctsín Language Research
Ep. 41: Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo on Zapotec Language Documentation & Revitalization
Ep. 40: Jessica Coon on Mayan Language Documentation & Consulting on Arrival
Ep. 39: Eric W. Campbell on Otomanguean Language Documentation & Mobilization
Ep. 38: Anthony C. Woodbury on Language Documentation & Field Linguistics Training
Ep. 37: Linguistic Fieldwork with Claire Bowern
Ep. 36: Quechuan Language Documentation & Revitalization with Gladys Camacho Ríos
Ep 35: Azamgarhi Language Documentation with Maaz Shaikh
Ep 34: Ana D. Alonso Ortiz on Zapotec Language Documentation & Revitalization
Ep 33: Azeb Amha on Afroasiatic Language Documentation & Description
Ep 32: Michael Karani on Arusa Ideophone Documentation & Description
Ep 31: Catalan Language Normalization with Guillem Belmar
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