About Me
I'm a first-year linguistics graduate student in the Univeristy of Texas at Austin, specializing in indigeous languages of Latin America. In particular, I study the Valley Zapotec languages of Oaxaca, Mexico, in both modern and colonial forms. My recent work includes collaboration on an initiative to support Zapotec high school students in writing their language on Twitter (see #UsaTuVoz) and, more theoretically, studying conjunction (‘and’) in Colonial Valley Zapotec.Research areas
Fieldwork and language documentation: documentation, description, and revitalization of Zapotec languages
Historical linguistics and philology: translation and analysis of archival Zapotec documents from the 16th–18th centuries
Photo by Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Contact
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Linguistics
College of Liberal Arts (CLA) 4.304 Office: CLA 4.700E12
Email: mayhplumb@utexas.edu
Twitter: @mayhplumb
Recent publications
Resumptive subject pronouns in Colonial Valley Zapotec relatives (2017, CILLA VIII)
Digital edition of Fray Leonardo Levanto’s 1766 Cathecismo de la lengua Zaapoteca, beta version (2017 with Lillehaugen et al., Ticha Project)
Humanidades digitales multilingual y multicultural: el caso de Ticha, un explorador digital de texto para el zapoteco colonial (2016 with Lillehaugen et al., Encontro de Humanidades Digitales)