CV
Lena Terhart
E-mail
[email protected]
Education
Since 2011
PhD student at the University of Leipzig
2010
German Magistra Artium (M.A.) in Anthropology of the Americas and Linguistics
at Free University Berlin, with the thesis “Klassifikatoren im Baure” (Classifiers
in Baure)
2002
German Abitur at Gymnasium Horn, Bremen
Work in Language Documentation
10/2014 – 05/2016
Scientific assistant in GIZAC Documentation Project at the University of Leipzig
04/2011 – 01/2013
PhD student in Paunaka Documentation Project at the University of Leipzig
09/2008 – 02/2010 and
08/2010 – 01/2011
Student assistant / assistant in Baure Documentation Project at the University
of Leipzig
04/2008 – 08/2008
Internship in Kola Saami Documentation Project at the Humboldt University
Berlin
Fieldwork
04/2012 – 05/2012
Field trip to Concepción (Bolivia), work with speakers of Paunaka
08/2011 – 09/2011
Field trip to Concepción (Bolivia), work with speakers of Paunaka
11/2008 – 12/2008
Field trip to Baures (Bolivia), work with speakers of Baure for M.A. thesis
10/2007
Excursion to Mexico City with the Latin American Institute of the Free University
Berlin, research on indigenous languages in the metropolis
Grants
04/2011 – 03/2013
PhD grant of the ELDP for the documentation of Paunaka (Arawak)
11/2008 – 12/2008
DAAD grant “Kurzfristige Studienaufenthalte für Abschlussarbeiten von
Studierenden” for research on Baure classifiers
10/2007
Funding of the Latin American Institute of the Free University Berlin for travel
expenses to Mexico City
09/2007
Grant of Volkswagen foundation for participating in “Workshop on Linguistic
Typology and Language Documentation” and the “7th Biennal Meeting of the
Association for Linguistic Typology” in Paris
08/2005 – 03/2006
ERASMUS grant for an exchange semester at the University of Helsinki
Presentations
28/04/2015
Typological Colloquium at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig:
“Markierung von Person und Numerus an Verben des Paunaka”
03/01/2013
SSILA Annual meeting, Boston 2013; with Swintha Danielsen: “Phonological
words in Baure and Paunaka (Arawakan)”
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12/07/2012
Colloquium at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Leipzig; with Federico
Villalta: “Investigación en el campo con los paunaka (Chiquitanía, Bolivia)”
06/07/2012
DobeS Workshop, MPI Nijmegen; with Swintha Danielsen and Federico Villalta:
“Documenting language mixing in the annotation corpus”
01/02/2012
Typological Colloquium at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig:
“Conjunction borrowing and other strategies of clause linking in Paunaka”
24/06/2011
Workshop on Word-formation in South American languages, University of
Leipzig; with Swintha Danielsen: “Productive compounding in Baure
(Arawakan)?”
16/06/2011
Typological Colloquium at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig:
“Classifiers in South-Arawakan languages”
01/06/2011
Colloquium at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Leipzig; with Swintha
Danielsen and Ninon Müller: “Presenting the Paunaka Documentation Project”
03/10/2010
5th meeting of German speaking researchers on South America and the
Caribbean, Marburg; with Swintha Danielsen: “Hänsel und Gretel in Baures”
16/10/2009
DoBeS-Workshop, MPI Nijmegen; with Swintha Danielsen: “The role of semispeakers in language documentation – The case of the Baure dialects”
03/07/2009
3L Student Conference on Language Documentation and Description, SOAS
London: “The role of semi-speakers in language documentation”
22/04/2009
Colloquium at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Leipzig: “Semantik der
Klassifikatoren im Baure (Süd-Arawak)”
15/01/2009
Typological Colloquium at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig; with
Swintha Danielsen: “The classifier systems in Baure and Moxo (Arawak)”
Publications
In prep.
Echÿu isini echÿu kupisaÿrÿ – The tiger and the fox in Paunaka. In:
Rybka, Konrad & Swintha Danielsen (eds.): The Arawakan tricksters: tales of
linguistic and cultural exchange. TILA annual supplement of IJAL.
In prep.
Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart: The value of including semi-speakers in
language documentation: A case study of the Baure language group in Bolivian
Amazonia
Submitted
Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart
Realis/irrealis as a basic grammatical distinction in Southern Arawakan
Languages. In: RSP (Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique), special issue
dedicated to future tense
In press
Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart: Borrowing conjunctions in two Arawakan
languages – Baure and Paunaka. In: Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera & Sandro
Sessarego (eds.), Perspectives on Hispanic Contact Linguistics in the
Americas. Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico. Vervuert:
Iberoamericana
In press
Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart: “Paunaka”. In: Pieter Muysken & Mily
Crevels (eds.), Las lenguas de Bolivia, Vol. 3. La Paz: Plural Editors.
2014
Review of "Languages of the Amazon" by Alexandra Aikhenvald. IJAL
2010
Canción en lengua baure de Bolivia. Radio spot. Radio Nómada:
http://radionomada.podomatic.com/
2009
Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko-Stadt – Sprachverlust und Spracherhalt in der
Metropole. http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/forschung/lehrforschung/
wem_gehoert_die_metropole/media/9_Perspektiven/
Indigene_Sprachen_in_Mexiko-Stadt_-_Lena_Terhart.pdf
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Archived language material
Since 2014
Danielsen, Swintha, Julia Bisschoffberger & Lena Terhart
Gwarayu language archive (Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR, SOAS,
London). http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0385
Since 2011
Danielsen, Swintha, Lena Terhart & Federico Villalta
Paunaka language archive (Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR, SOAS,
London). http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0104
2008-2013
Danielsen, Swintha, Femmy Admiraal, Franziska Riedel & Lena Terhart. Baure
language archive (The Language Archive, DobeS).
https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?0&openpath=node:885634
Materials for speech community
In prep.
Danielsen, Swintha, Ruthy Yarita, Lena Terhart, Lena Sell, Roberto Herrera
Miranda, Marie-Luise Schwarzer, Simone Faß
(Poster with body part vocabulary in Gwarayu)
2014
Danielsen, Swintha, Lena Terhart, Roberto Herrera Miranda, Lena Sell, Simone
Faß & the Baure speakers: To vi’a - Nuestro cuerpo: Las partes del cuerpo en
el idioma baure. (Poster with body part vocabulary in Baure)
2013
Terhart, Lena, Swintha Danielsen, Federico Villalta, Simone Fass & the
Paunaka speakers: Chipÿi - El cuerpo: Las partes del cuerpo en el idioma
paunaka. (Poster with body part vocabulary in Paunaka)
2012
Terhart, Lena, Swintha Danielsen, Federico Villalta, Miguel Supepí, Pedro Pinto
& and Ninon Müller: Vocabulario Paunaka. Aschersleben. (Educational booklet
for the Paunaka community)
2010
Danielsen, Swintha, Lena Terhart, Femmy Admiraal, Franziska Riedel, Lena
Sell Chinepinev - Cuentos de los Baure. Weimar. (Book with stories and songs
in Baure and Spanish, illustrated by students of two art schools in Berlin)
Teaching
10 - 13/09/2012
2nd Trondheim Workshop in Language Description and Documentation: “Tools
for linguists - Paunaka Documentation Project”
winter semester 2009/10
Free University Berlin, Latin American Institute: “Einführung in die Maya-Schrift”
with Lola Kaiser, Yan Geoffrey and Marieke Joel
winter semester 2009/10
University of Leipzig, Institute of Ethnology/Romance Studies: “Einführung in
die Maya-Schrift” with Lola Kaiser, Yan Geoffrey and Marieke Joel
summer semester 2008
Free University Berlin, Latin American Institute: “Projektgruppe Ikonographie III
(Bild und Schrift bei den Maya)” with Lola Kaiser and Yan Geoffrey
Language skills
English, Spanish, Finnish, Paunaka, Baure, Latin, Colonial K'iche'
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