Publications Jeanette Sakel, UWE Bristol
Books (authored)
Forthc. 2016 Introducing Multilingualism and Language Contact. Cambridge University Press.
Forthc. 2014 Study Skills in Linguistics. Routledge.
2012 with Daniel L. Everett Linguistic fieldwork: A student guide.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2004 A Grammar of Mosetén Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Mouton
Grammar Library, Vol 33), pp. 504.
Books and special journal issues (edited)
2012 with Marianne Mithun and Pier Marco Bertinetto (eds.) Variation in
clause combining: Views from the New World. Special issue of
Linguistic Discovery 10(1).
2012 with Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.) New perspectives on language
transfer. Special issue of International Journal of Bilingualism 16(1).
2012 with Thomas Stolz (eds.) Indigene Sprachen Amerikas. Berlin:
Akademie Verlag.
2007 with Yaron Matras (eds.) Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic
perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Academic journal articles
2012 ‘Transfer and language contact: the case of Pirahã’ in J. Treffers-Daller
& J. Sakel (eds.) ‘New perspectives on language transfer’, special issue
of International Journal of Bilingualism 16(1): 37-52.
2012 with Jeanine Treffers-Daller ‘Why transfer is a key aspect of language
use and processing in bilinguals and L2 users’, International Journal of Bilingualism 16(1): 3-10.
2012 ‘Acquiring complexity: the Portuguese spoken by Pirahã men’, in J.
Sakel, M. Mithun & P. M. Bertinetto (eds.) ‘Variation in clause combining: Views from the New World’, special issue of Linguistic
Discovery 10(1): 75-88.
2011 ‘Mosetén and Chimane argument coding: a layered system’ in
Francoise Rose & Antoine Guillaume (eds.) ‘Argument coding
systems in Bolivian Lowland Languages’, special issue of
International Journal of American Linguistics 77(4): 537-557.
2010 ‘Grammatical borrowing from Spanish/Portuguese in some native
languages of Latin America’ in Dik Bakker & Umberto Ansaldo (eds.)
‘Language contact with Spanish’, special Issue of Language
Typology and Universals 63(1): 65-78.
2007 ‘Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén - a study of
grammatical integration’, International Journal of Bilingualism 11(1):
25-53.
2007 with Yaron Matras ‘Investigating the mechanisms of pattern
replication in language convergence’ in Studies in Language 31(4): 829-865.
Articles/chapters in peer-reviewed books and collections
2012 ‘Mosetén: eine Sprache im Wandel’ p. 197-205 in Jeanette Sakel &
Thomas Stolz (eds.) Indigene Sprachen Amerikas. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag.
2010 with Eugenie Stapert ‘Pirahã – in need of recursive syntax?’ p. 3-16 in
Harry van der Hulst (ed.) Recursion and human language. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
2009 ‘Mosetén y Chimane’ p. 333-375 in Mily Crevels & Pieter Muysken
(eds.) Las lenguas de Bolivia Plurales Editores; La Paz, Bolivia. (a short grammar of both languages).
2008 with Yaron Matras ‘Modelling contact-induced change in grammar’ p.
62-87 in Thomas Stolz et al. (eds.) Aspects of language contact. New
theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on Romanisation processes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2007 ‘Types of loan: matter and pattern’ p. 15-29 in Yaron Matras &
Jeanette Sakel (eds.) Grammatical borrowing Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
2007 ‘Mosetén borrowing from Spanish’ p. 567-580 in Yaron Matras &
Jeanette Sakel (eds.) Grammatical borrowing Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
2007 ‘The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective’ p.
315-336 in Wälchli, Bernhard and Matti Miestamo New challenges in
Typology Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2005 ‘Development of an inclusive/exclusive distinction: a possible loan
scenario in Mosetenan’ p. 359-379 in Elena Filimonova (ed.) Clusivity. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2002 ‘Gender agreement in Mosetén’ p. 287-305 in Crevels et al. (eds.)
Current studies on South American languages. Leiden: CNWS.
Other publications and reviews
2010 with Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Wider perspectives and more options for
English Language and Linguistics students. The development of
employability and key skills and an overview of the destinations of
graduates. Report for the Subject Centre of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (Higher Education Academy).
2008 Review of Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (eds.),
Grammars in contact : A cross-linguistic typology Journal of
Linguistics: 509-514.
2008 Essay writing handbook (for students of Linguistics and English
Language). University of the West of England, Bristol.
2007 ‘On Pirahã and Everett’s claims about recursion’. Invited contribution
to ‘Letters to the Editor’, Human Development 13.
2002 Tsinsi’ kirjka Proyecto GRAMO, Germany / Bolivia (community
work / booklet in Mosetén).
2001 Ojtere’ Proyecto GRAMO, Germany / Bolivia (community work /
booklet in Mosetén).
2000 Poromasi’ Pheyak’dye’in Proyecto GRAMO, Germany / Bolivia (2nd
edition 2002) (community work / booklet in Mosetén).
1999 Passive in Greenlandic MA thesis at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark.
Conference presentations and seminars
17.10.2013 The onset of borrowing: Somali and English. Invited talk at the
Linguistic Society Cambridge. Cambridge University.
13.05.2013 Pirahã – complexity and contact. Invited presentation at the German
Linguistics seminar at the University of Bristol.
09.05.2013 Somali and English at the onset of borrowing. Invited talk at a
workshop and roundtable on immigrant languages at the University of
Exeter.
19.04.2013 Changing identities in language contact situations. Presentation at I-
Mean III conference, Bristol.
21.11.2012 Complex sentences in language contact and second language
acquisition. Invited talk at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics.
17.10.2012 How I got into doing fieldwork in the Amazon: writing a grammar of
Mosetén. Invited talk at the Linguistics Society at the University of the West of England.
01.05.2012 A typology of grammatical borrowing. Invited talk at the University of
Cambridge, invited speaker at the ‘mechanisms of language change
research cluster workshop’.
06.03.2012 Subordinationsstrategien im Sprachkontakt: eine Frage der
syntaktischen Komplexität. Invited talk at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
27.11.2011 Fieldwork on Pirahã – a language from the Amazon. Invited talk at the
Linguistic Society at the University of the West of England.
22.06.2011 Report on the NSS-survey of Linguistics and English Language
students, invited presentation at a workshop held by the Subject Centre
for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies (Higher Education Academy), London.
23.03.2011 Fieldwork on language contact in the Amazon. Invited speaker at the
Linguistics seminar, University of Exeter.
17.05.2010 Somali and English in contact - first findings from the Bristol Somali
community. Somali networking workshop, Bristol.
12.01.2010 invited seminar presentation ‘Pirahã: a language without complexity?’
University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
26.11.2009 invited seminar presentation ‘Pirahã-Portuguese language contact
without bilingualism?’ University of Surrey, Surrey Linguistic Circle.
04.10.2009 invited talk ‘Mosetén’, Amerindischtag, Überseemuseum Bremen &
University of Bremen.
01.10.2009 invited talk ‘Spanish grammatical elements in Mosetén: borrowing of
form and function’ Morphologies in contact, University of Bremen, Germany.
02.07.2009 invited talk ‘Gender agreement and reference tracking in Mosetén’,
FIFA workshop, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
25.04.2009 ‘Borrowing of discourse markers: Mosetén and other contact
situations’, workshop on diachrony at the iMean conference, University of the West of England, Bristol.
12.11.2008 ‘L2 Portuguese among the Pirahã’ at the BAAL (British Association
for Applied Linguistics) annual meeting, University of Swansea.
13.11.2008 ‘Pirahã-Portuguese language contact: a case of fossilized L2
acquisition’ at the LAGB (Linguistics Association of Great Britain) annual meeting, University of Essex.
03.10.2008 ‘Grammatical borrowing in the native languages of Latin America
from a typological perspective’, workshop on Languages in contact with Spanish, ACLC-UvA, University of Amsterdam.
09.07.2008 ‘Imperfect L2 acquisition, language contact, pidginization or all three?
The case of Pirahã’ at Workshop on ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to transfer, crosslinguistic influence and contact-induced change’ at the University of the West of England, Bristol
21.09.2007 ‘Language contact and recursion: the case of Pirahã’ ALT – workshop
on Language contact and morphosyntactic variation and change, Paris.
30.08.2007 with Eugenie Stapert ‘New evidence in the discussion on recursion in
Pirahã’, at the annual meeting of the LAGB, Kings College London.
29.08.2007 with Eugenie Stapert ‘language contact, mental verbs, the suffix –sai,
the suffix –so/-ao and other issues regarding recursion in Pirahã’ at the
CHLaSC workshop, University of Manchester.
28.04.2007 with Eugenie Stapert ‘Possible markers of embedding in Pirahã: evidence for recursion? ’ at the conference on Recursion in Human Languages at Illinois State University.
19.04.2007 with Uli Sauerland and Eugenie Stapert ‘Syntactic and Semantic
embedding’, invited presentation at the workshop on ‘Birdsong, Speech and Language: Converging Mechanisms’, Utrecht.
07.04.2007 ‘Mosetén and Chimane argument coding’, invited presentation at the conference on ‘Argument coding systems in Bolivian Lowland languages’, Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique, Paris.
04.03.2007 Integration of Spanish loan-verbs within the system of Mosetén verb
classification, invited presentation at the COST 31 workshop on ‘Stability and adaptation of classification systems in cross cultural perspective’ in Jerusalem (read by S. Wichmann due to illness).
07.01.2007 Pirahã language contact and recursion, at the CHLaSC workshop,
ZAS, Berlin.
10.12.2006 Verb classification in Mosetén, invited presentation at the COST 31
workshop on verb classification in Berlin.
10.10.2006 Constraints on borrowing: Romance influences on Mosetén and
Pirahã, at the Linguistics and English Language Seminar, University
of Manchester.
02.09.2006 Constraints on borrowing: Romance influences on Mosetén and
Pirahã, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the LAGB, Newcastle
upon Tyne.
22.02.2006 with Yaron Matras Prototypical linguistic areas and borrowing
hierarchies, toward an integral investigation of linguistic areas, at the workshop on ‘Current issues in areal typology’ at the meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) in Bielefeld, Germany.
30.09.2005 Mosetén language contact at the Workshop on grammatical and lexical
borrowing, University of Manchester.
01.09.2005 with Yaron Matras ‘Language convergence, “PAT” and “pivot”’,
Annual meeting of the LAGB, Cambridge.
07.06.2005 Grammatical borrowing, invited paper at the Loanword Typology workshop, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
05.05.2005 Universals of grammatical borrowing, invited paper at the conference on Romanisation World-wide, University of Bremen, Germany.
19.01.2005 Spanish elements in Mosetén, Language Contact and Pragmatics Seminar series, University of Manchester.
08.01.2005 Borrowing of Spanish function words and discourse markers in
Mosetén, SSILA meeting at the LSA conference, Oakland, California,
USA.
28.10.2003 Invited talk: Complex predicates in Mosetén, SOAS, London
07.10.2003 Fieldwork on Mosetén, a language of Bolivia, Linguistics department
seminar series, University of Manchester.
01.10.2003 The introduction of a 1st person plural inclusive in Mosetenan,
Language Contact and Pragmatics Seminar series, University of
Manchester.
28.03.2003 Invited talk: How to write a descriptive (reference) grammar as a PhD
thesis, Fieldworkshop, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
16.12.2002 Parts of speech in Mosetén, Americanist Sessions, University of
Nijmegen.
19.11.2002 The status of the 1st person plural inclusive marker in Mosetenan, MPI
for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
22.08.2002 Linguistic Fieldwork on Mosetén, PhD-student meetings of the MPI
EVA and MPI CNS, Leipzig.
09.04.2002 Directionals in Mosetén, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
05.11.2001 Deixis in Mosetén, Americanist Sessions, University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands.
30.08.2001 Differences in the degree of language endangerment: the case of Mosetén, New perspectives on endangered languages symposium, Helsinki, Finland.
14.08.2001 The –ban verbal suffix, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
28.02.2001 Endangered Languages, Poster presentation together with David
Peterson and David Gil, DGfS-Treffen, Universität Leipzig, Germany.
29.11.2000 Gender Agreement in Mosetén, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
29.09.2000 Gender in Mosetén, Workshop on Bolivian and Rondonian Indigenous
Languages, Leiden, The Netherlands.
13.07.2000 Valence affecting structures in Mosetén, Congreso Internacional de
Americanistas, Warsaw, Poland.
13.05.2000 Working on the computer in a fieldwork situation together with consultants, Computer Tools Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
07.01.2000 Passive in West Greenlandic, SSILA meeting at the LSA conference in
Chicago, USA.
30.11.1999 Passive and Voice in West Greenlandic, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
22.11.1999 Linguistic Fieldwork on Mosetén, Bolivia, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
29.09.1999 Feltarbejde i Bolivia, University of Aarhus, Denmark.