Carola Emkow
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Biography —
Dr. Carola Emkow (Ph.D.) works on the Indigenous languages and cultures of Papua New Guinea as well as of South and Central America. She holds a Ph.D. for language description in linguistics. She carries out research on the:
- Bena Bena language and culture living in eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea
- Kaqchikel and K’iche’ languages and cultures of highland Guatemala
- Yucatec language and culture of lowland Mexico
- Quechua language and culture of highland Bolivia (Andes)
She is particularly interested in Indigenous languages as tools for preserving traditional knowledge as well as reflectors of human concepts. Her knowledge of these languages allow her to unravel the universes as they unfold for these groups.
Selected Publications —
Emkow, Carola. 2020. Metaphoric Meaning extensions and expressions in Bena Bena. In: Melike Baş and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (eds.), Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’. Brill Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture. Brill.
Emkow, Carola. 2019. A grammar of Araona – an Amazonian language of Northwestern Bolivia. München: Lincom Europa
Emkow, Carola. 2019. Topological relations and frames of reference in Kaqchikel, Tz’utujil and Q’anjob’al. University of California. Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gv5t2fr
Emkow, Carola. 2012. Araona. In: Muysken, Peter & Crevels, Mily (eds.). Las Lenguas de Bolivia. La Paz: Los Editores