I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan, located on Treaty 4 Territory, Canada. I have been collaborating with speakers of Media Lengua (ISO 639-3 mue) in the Community of Pijal (Imbabura, Ecuador) for over a decade in an effort to document their language. Together, we have compiled the first Media Lengua dictionary (online, print) and complied a storybook containing 30 oral stories and traditions from Pijal, written in Media Lenuga (online, print). We're currently working on a cookbook with 30+ recipes, written in Media Lengua, and archival material for AILLA.
My primary area of academic research explores questions pertaining to the production and perception of phonemic conflict sites (conflicting areas of phonological convergence) in mixed languages (and language contact in general); specifically relating to Media Lengua (Ecuador). As of late, and with the help of numerous colleagues, I've expanded these questions to other mixed languages; specifically Michif (Canada), Gurindji-Kriol (Australia), and Ma'a (Tanzania). In addition, I've been working with colleagues on a number of languages to document nasality phenomena using a new method developed by Martin Kolhberger and myself, which provides an effective means of gathering nasal data from the field [paper]. I also have several on-going projects that explore discourse phenomena in ASL; namely, sign lengthening and the identification of disfluencies in the visual-gestural modality).
This site dedicated to my work in linguistics (among other things). Feel free to take a look around!
NEWS!
https://artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/3802/Students_visit_Ecuador_to
My primary area of academic research explores questions pertaining to the production and perception of phonemic conflict sites (conflicting areas of phonological convergence) in mixed languages (and language contact in general); specifically relating to Media Lengua (Ecuador). As of late, and with the help of numerous colleagues, I've expanded these questions to other mixed languages; specifically Michif (Canada), Gurindji-Kriol (Australia), and Ma'a (Tanzania). In addition, I've been working with colleagues on a number of languages to document nasality phenomena using a new method developed by Martin Kolhberger and myself, which provides an effective means of gathering nasal data from the field [paper]. I also have several on-going projects that explore discourse phenomena in ASL; namely, sign lengthening and the identification of disfluencies in the visual-gestural modality).
This site dedicated to my work in linguistics (among other things). Feel free to take a look around!
NEWS!
https://artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/3802/Students_visit_Ecuador_to
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This is the first dictionary of the Media Lengua Language. This collection comes from the community of Pijal and is based on the peer-reviewed version published by Dictionaria through the Max Plank Istitute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Dictionaria is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
The printed version can be found here: Media Lengua Dictionary The online version can be found here: Dictionaria |
Stories and traditions from Pijal: Told in Media Lengua with translations in Spanish and English.
Stories and traditions from Pijal is a collection of narratives from the community of Pijal, Ecuador. This is the first published document in Media Lengua, a rare mixed language spoken in the Ecuadorian highlands.
Available through various outlets including: Amazon.com, Amazon.es, CreateSpace.com in colo(u)r or black and white. *New* Now available for free through Academia.edu and Researchgate.net
Stories and traditions from Pijal is a collection of narratives from the community of Pijal, Ecuador. This is the first published document in Media Lengua, a rare mixed language spoken in the Ecuadorian highlands.
Available through various outlets including: Amazon.com, Amazon.es, CreateSpace.com in colo(u)r or black and white. *New* Now available for free through Academia.edu and Researchgate.net
Contact Information
Jesse Stewart, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Linguistics University of Saskatchewan Arts Building Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A5 Usask profile / Usask linguistics website |
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