Education

 

2016 - 2019 Ph.D in Linguistics, The University of Manchester.

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2002 - 2007 Doctorate in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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1997 - 2001 Bachelor in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Work Experience

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2022 Full time researcher Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (ANID - SIA).

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2020-2021 Visiting Researcher NEII - Universidad Católica de Temuco.

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2019 ELDP grantee.

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2017-2018 Teacher Assistant, SALC, The University of Manchester.

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2008-2011 Associate Professor, Arts and Humanities Department, Universidad Andrés Bello.

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2007-2011 Auxiliar Professor, Faculty of Philosophy,

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2001-2004 Associate Instructor, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

 

 

 

Recent publications

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2023. Unattainable Duties. Linguistics and Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09386-1

 

2023. Mapudungun frustrative -fu-: a modal analysis. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 68(4).

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2022. Parameters for the production of discourse contexts: Eliciting the semantics of desires and obligations in Mapudungun. In Methods for studying modality in underdescribed languages. Ed. Jozina Vander Klok, Núbia Rech, Simone Guesser & Eduardo Soares. Berlin: De Gruyter. 

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2020. Mapudungun expressions of desire. International Journal of American Linguistics.

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2020. Future Obligations. In Journal of Linguistics (published online April 2019).   https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000112

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2019. Predictive illocutions and conversational scores. In Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 18, 7-36. 

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Research Projects

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2022-2025 Fortalecimiento de la investigación en el área de las Ciencias del Lenguaje de la Facultad de Educación, y de su aporte a la preservación y divulgación del patrimonio lingüístico regional. (ANID - SIA 444834) 

 

2007-2009 'Semantic Minimalism' (Fondecyt Iniciación 11070004). 

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