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New chapter: Early Mesoamerican language contact and lexical borrowing involving Nahuatl
I have a set of articles coming out exploring the early history of Nahuan. Today one of them came out in a volume on language contact before the written record, traced through early loanwords: Beyond Recorded History: Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics, edited by Marwan Kilani and Rasmus G. Bjørn (De Gruyter Mouton, 2026).…
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The Language of Teotihuacan Writing
My article with Christophe Helmke, “The Language of Teotihuacan Writing”, is out in Current Anthropology 66(5):705–739. The question of what language, if any, was recorded by the signs painted on the murals and ceramics of Teotihuacan has been contested for decades. We argue that these signs do constitute writing; that the system shares basic principles…
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Nahuatl Nations published by Oxford University Press
My book Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico is out with Oxford University Press, in the series Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language. The book is a linguistic ethnography of the political relations between the Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak Nahuatl and the Mexican nation that claims the language…
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Interview: University Post
I have been interviewed for the University Post about my new ERC-funded research project.“He taught himself ‘Elvish’ as a child. Now he is to solve an ancient enigma in Mexico”
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ERC starting grant
The Research project SUAHIST which has received a Starting Grant by the European Research Council from 2024-2029. I will be the PI, working together with a team of specialists in the Náayeri and Wixárika languages. https://ufm.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2023/fem-danske-forskere-far-en-af-eus-fineste-forskningsbevillinger Summary: “A thousand years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, a vast region, covering what is now North-western Mexico…
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Feature in Babelzine
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Sapere Aude – Language and Landscape
In December 2018 I was awarded the Sapere Aude (“Dare to know!”) Research Leader Grant of the Independent Research Fund Denmark. It is a three year grant for a project comparing spatial grammar in dialects of Nahuatl spoken in different environments and landscapes, to discover whether the different dialects have adapted their spatial grammar to…
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“Becoming Autonomous” out in PoLAR
My new article “Becoming Autonomous: Indigeneity, Scale and Schismogenesis in Multicultural Mexico” is out in the September 2018 issue of Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
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Media commentary on wikipedia:
I’ve been used as a source for inside commentary on Wikipedia’s problems with accuracy and bias: In March, my commentary was used in an article by The Southern Poverty Law Center on the way that some White Nationalists try to influence Wikipedia’s content to reflect their world view. This is something I have a lot…
