Alyson started following the work of Lisa Wisman Weil, Purdue University, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
Alyson started following the work of Aleksandra Kasztalska, Purdue University, Linguistics.
Alyson started following the work of Ager Gondra, Purdue University, Languages and Cultures.
Department Member, Linguistics
East Carolina University, The Language Academy
Indigenous and Endangered Languages Lab
Thesis Title: Language and Space: A crosslinguistic study of spatial reference preference in Sumu-Mayangna, Nicaraguan Spanish, and Barcelonan Spanish
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Elena Benedicto
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About
I am a PhD candidate in the Linguistics program at Purdue University. For the past four years, I've been working on spatial semantics and the syntactic composition of manner and motion. These research interests have led to my participation in a large, collaborative, experimental project, called MesoSpace. Part of my contribution identifies the preferred spatial frames of reference and meronymy system for speakers of Sumu-Mayangna (Misumalpan family), an indigenous and endangered language of the RAAN territory of Nicaragua.
My research interests involve the syntax-semantic interface with focus on spatial and motion/path constructions, semantic typology, and issues related to language documentation, language activism, and Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches to linguistic research.
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