EMU Linguistics Program
Faculty Profile
Veronica Grondona
Verónica Grondona
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1998
612R Pray-Harrold
734.487.0145
vgrondona [AT] emich [DOT] edu
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Areas of Expertise: Native American languages, morphology, morphosyntax, argument structure, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, descriptive linguistics, typology, language planning and policy, bilingualism, bilingual education, language contact
Biography:

Courses:

LING 322 Languages of the World
LING 340 Language and Culture
LING 401 Introduction to Linguistic Science
LING 532 Sociolinguistics
LING 536 Typology and Universals of Language

Projects:

Documentation and description of languages of Chorote, Chulupi and Kadiweu (Southern Chaco, S. America) (Funded by the Lisbet Rausing Fund, SOAS, U. of London)

Comparative and historical studies of languages of the S. Chaco, especially Matacoan and Guaycuruan languages

E-meld project (digitization of linguistic data on endangered languages)

Linguistic documentation of Mocovi (Guaycuruan)

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Selected Publications/Presentations:

La posesión en mocoví. (Possession in Mocoví). Apuntes sobre Lenguas Indigenas Argentinas. Buenos Aires,   Argentina. (In press.)

Las raíces deícticas en mocoví. (Deictic roots in Mocoví) In Cabral, A. S. A. C. and Rodrigues, A. D. (orgs.).   Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras: Fonologia, Gramática e História, Atas do I Encontro Internacional do Grupo de Trabalho sobre Línguas Indígenas da ANPOLL. T. I, pp. 164-175. Belém: EDUFPA. (2002)

Location and direction in Mocoví. Proceedings of the First Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California, Santa Barbara. (1998)

Location and direction in Waikuruan languages. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley. (1998)

A Preliminary reconstruction of Proto-Waikuruan, with special reference to pronominals and demonstratives.   Anthropological Linguistics. 37(2).169-191. (with Filomena Sandalo) (1995)

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