Publications

Most publications are also available through my university profile and Academia.edu.

Books

Journal articles

• Forthcoming — Truths and Roots: Etymology and Nahua Cultural History. Anthropological Linguistics.
• 2025 — with Christophe Helmke. The Language of Teotihuacan Writing. Current Anthropology 66(5):705–739. + Supplementary Materials
• 2024 — Sapir’s Law and the Role of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto-Corachol-Nahuan. International Journal of American Linguistics 90(2):227–267.
• 2020 — with Carolyn O’Meara. Environmental Adaptation in Language: Spatial Grammar, Landscape Knowledge and Human Survival. Language Dynamics and Change 10(2):230–258.
• 2019 — with Christophe Helmke. Gold and Calques in Mesoamerica: Tracing the Introduction of Gold to Mesoamerica through Linguistic Evidence. Contributions in New World Archaeology 13:113–136.
• 2018 — Becoming Autonomous: Indigeneity, Scale, and Schismogenesis in Multicultural Mexico. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 41(S1):133–147.
• 2016 — The Difference Language Makes: The Life History of Nahuatl in Two Mexican Families. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 26(1):81–97.
• 2016 — Writing Irataba: Representing Native Americans on Wikipedia. American Anthropologist 118(3):541–553.
• 2016 — with Julia Madajczak. Teotamachilizti: A Sermon from Colonial Guatemala in a Nahuan Language. Colonial Latin American Review 25(2):220–244.
• 2011 — Adjectives in Hueyapan Nahuatl: Do They Exist? And If They Do, What Kind of Adjectives Are They? Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 32:8–19.
• 2011 — Polysynthesis in Hueyapan Nahuatl: Status of NPs, Word Order and Other Concerns. Anthropological Linguistics 52(3–4):274–300.
• 2010 — Nahuatl among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hueyapan: A Case of Spontaneous Revitalization. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 203:124–137.

Chapters in edited volumes

• 2026 — Early Mesoamerican Language Contact and Lexical Borrowing Involving Nahuatl. In Marwan Kilani & Rasmus G. Bjørn (eds.), Beyond Recorded History: Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics, pp. 389–425. De Gruyter Mouton. Open access.
• Forthcoming — Nahuan Relative Chronology: What Would Pre-Nahua Have Been Like in the Classic Period? In Thomas Olander & Florian Wandl (eds.), Relative Chronology. Language Science Press.
• Forthcoming — Xolotl and Uto-Aztecan Stellar Twins: A Comparative Analysis of the History of the Word(s) Xolotl. Jerry Offner (ed.).
• Forthcoming — La Representación del Espacio en las Lenguas Náhuas. In Gabriela García Salido, Glenda Lizárraga & Lilián Guerrero (eds.), Espacio en Lenguas Mesoamericanas. UNAM.
• 2026 — The Linguistic Panorama of the Epiclassic: Placing Nahuan among the Languages of Western Mesoamerica. In Claudia Alvarado (ed.), Proceedings of the Copenhagen Epiclassic Roundtable.
• 2024 — Words in Revolution: How the Nahuas Disappeared from the State of Morelos and from the Historiography of the Mexican Revolution. In Galen Brokaw & Pablo García Loaeza (eds.), The Nahua: Language and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Present. University of Colorado Press.
• 2021 — Languages and Linguistics in Colonial Michoacán. In Lorena Ojeda Dávila & Jesper Nielsen (eds.), El Franciscano Danés que se Convirtió en Santo Indígena. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.
• 2020 — ¿Familia o vecinos? Investigando la relación entre el proto-náhuatl y el proto-corachol. In Rosa H. Yañez Rosales (ed.), Lenguas Yutoaztecas: Historia, estructuras y contacto lingüístico. Homenaje a Karen Dakin, pp. 75–108. Universidad de Guadalajara.
• 2018 — with Kurly Tlapoyawa. Aztlan and Mexican Transnationalism: Language, Nation and History. In Stanley Brunn (ed.), Changing World Language Map. Springer.
• 2016 — with Néstor Hernández-Green, Rory Turnbull & Ditte Boeg Thomsen. Life Histories, Language Attitudes and Linguistic Variation: Navigating the Micropolitics of Language Revitalization in an Otomí Community in Mexico. In Gabriela Pérez Báez, Chris Rogers & Jorge Emilio Rosellón Labrada (eds.), Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts, pp. 215–246. Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2015 — with Ditte Boeg Thomsen. Lenguaje del paisaje: Testimonios lingüísticos del otomí de Acazulco. In Silvina Vigliani & Roberto Junco (eds.), Bajo el volcán: Vida y ritualidad en torno al Nevado de Toluca. INAH.
• 2014 — with Paja Faudree. Language, Society and History: Towards a Unified Approach. The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge University Press.
• 2008 — Huitzilopochtlis anden genkomst i Hueyapan. In Jesper Nielsen & Mettelise Fritz Hansen (eds.), De mange veje til Mesoamerika. Hyldestskrift til Una Canger. University of Copenhagen.

In the edited volume Nahuatl Space (under review, John Benjamins)

• with Carolyn O’Meara. Nahuatl and the Spatial Grammar of Mesoamerican Languages.
• Toponyms in the Spatial and Social Landscapes of Two Nahua Communities.
• with Paulina Posadas Benuto. The Diversity of Nahuan Locative Constructions.
• with Laurits Stapput-Knudsen. Frames of Reference in Nahuan Languages.
• with Giulia Falcione & Ignacio Fortino Ramírez. Spatial Frames of Reference in Zaragoza Nawa’: Individual Variation and Vestiges of a Wind-based System.
• with Gabriela Citlahua Zepahua. Conceptualizations of Space and Landscape in Everyday Activities in Tequila, Veracruz.

Writing for a wider audience

• 2021 — Avocado og testikelsovs: et internet-meme og en aztekisk etymologi. Mål og Mæle 3/2021:9–11.
• 2020 — De Amerikers Sprog: Dansk viden om indianske sprog i det 16. og 17. århundrede. Mål og Mæle 41(1):17–23.
• 2020 — Linguistic Horizons, research profile in Babel 31.

Data and conference papers

• Corachol–Nahua–Tepima–Taracahita Swadesh list with cognate coding
• 2014 — The East-West Split in Nahuan Dialectology: Reviewing the Evidence and Consolidating the Grouping. Friends of Uto-Aztecan, Tepic, Nayarit.