Language and Culture Research Centre People & Projects Carola Emkow
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Education
La Trobe University (Research Centre for Linguistic Typology), Melbourne May 2007
PhD. in Linguistics
Title of thesis: A grammar of Araona an Amazonian language of Northwestern Bolivia
Free University of Berlin, Berlin July 2001
Magistra Artium in English Philology and Romance Studies
Title of thesis: Intensi_ers and reexives from a typological perspective
Experience
Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University November 2018 - Present
Research Fellow Cairns, Australia
- Preparing publication of PhD thesis with Mouton de Gruyter
- Advancing a full-length grammar of Bena Bena (Papuan, Gorokan)
Friedrich-Schiller Universityat Jena Mrz 2017 - January 2019
Research Fellow Jena, Germany
- DoBeS Language Documentation Project of the Bena Bena language (Papuan, Gorokan family)
Project leader: Prof. Volker Gast
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology May 2012 - May 2015
Research Fellow Leipzig, Germany
- DoBeS Language Documentation Project of the Bena Bena language (Papuan, Gorokan family)
Project leader: Prof. Bernard Comrie
Free University of Berlin October 2010 - July 2013
Lecturer in English linguistics Berlin, Germany
- Introductory seminars and lectures for B.A. students
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Free University of Berlin April 2009 - July 2009
Guest professor Berlin, Germany
- Introductory seminars and lectures for B.A. students
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Free University of Berlin October 2006 - January 2009
Research fellow Berlin, Germany
- Typological investigation of reciprocal constructions and symmetric predicates in the world’s languages
Project Leader: Prof. Ekkehard KOnig
Free University of Berlin October 1998 - July 2001
Student Assistant Berlin, Germany
- Typological investigation of intensi_ers, focus particles and reflexivity
Project Leader: Prof. Ekkehard KOnig
Technical Strengths
Computer Programs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Latex, MySql
Tools for linguistic analysis Praat, Elan, Audacity, Toolbox, FLex, Lexique Pro
Publications
Emkow, Carola. To appear. A grammar of Araona {an Amazonian language of Northwestern Bolivia.
Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton
Emkow, Carola. 2019. Topological relations and frames of reference in Kaqchikel, Tz'utujil and Q'anjob'al. University of California. Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gv5t2fr
Emkow, Carola. 2012. 'Araona'. In: Muysken, Peter & Crevels, Mily (eds.). Las Lenguas de Bolivia.
La Paz: Los Editores.
Emkow, Carola. 2010. Review of Eighteenth century Cholon by Alexander-Bakkerus. IJAL: 273-274
Lenguas de Bolivia. La Paz: Los Editores.
Emkow, Carola. 2001. 'Intensi_ers and reexives from a typological perspective' (Magistra Artium thesis). Berlin: Free University of Berlin.
Emkow, Carola & Knapp, Regina. 2012-2019. Documentation of the Bena Bena language. Available at: http://dobes.mpi.nl/projects/benabena/
Emkow, Carola. 'Culture, bilum, body, language’ To be submitted to Oceania.
Emkow, Carola & Aubona, Gibson. 'Topological relations and frames of reference in Bena Bena'. To be submitted to Anthropological Linguistics.
Emkow, Carola & Knapp, Regina. 'Culture, body, and language. The use of body parts in the language of emotion and mental states.' To be submitted to Anthropological Linguistics
Emkow, Carola. 'Culture, bilum, body, language’. To be submitted to Oceania.