Professor of Linguistics
Bio/CV:
PhD, UT Austin
Anthropological linguistics, typology, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, South American historical and contact linguistics, language revitalization
Role:
Fieldwork and Language Documentation
Language and Social Context
Faculty
Topics
Fieldwork and Language Documentation topic pageLanguage and Social Context topic page
Contact
levmichael@berkeley.edu1212 Dwinelle Hall
Webpage
Publications
Managing Lexicography Data: A Practical, Principled Approach Using FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)
Christine Beier; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2022
Iquito Dictionary
Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Di?az Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma
Recent Publication, 2021
The classification of South American languages
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2021
Rethinking the communicative functions of evidentiality: Event responsibility in Nanti (Arawakan)
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2020
A Privative Derivational Source for Standard Negation in Lokono (Arawakan)
Konrad Rybka; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2020
Computational Phylogenetics and the Classification of South American Languages
Lev Michael; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Recent Publication, 2020
Phylogenetic Classification Supports a Northeastern Amazonian Proto-Tupí-Guaraní Homeland
Zachary O'Hagan; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2019
Diccionario Escolar Ikíitu Kuwasíini – Taw? Kuwasíini (Iquito – Castellano)
Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Di?az Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma
Recent Publication, 2019
Lines in Nanti karintaa chants: An areal poetic typological perspective (An essay in honor of Joel Sherzer)
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2019
Iquito-English Dictionary
Lev Michael; Christine Beier; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Di?az Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma
Recent Publication, 2019
The evolution of subject-verb agreement in Eastern Tukanoan
Thiago Costa Chacon; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2018
Iquito
Christine Beier; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma
Recent Publication, 2018
Matsigenka
Lev Michael; Christine Beier; Sr. Haroldo Vargas Pereira
Recent Publication, 2018
Language Revalorization in Peruvian Amazonia, Through the Lens of Iquito
Christine Beier; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2018
The areal linguistics of Amazonia
Patience Epps; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2017
P?-naa?juuyaa iki?ituwaaka kuwasi?ini. Vamos a escribir el idioma iquito
Christine Beier; Hilter Panduro Gu?imack; Lev Michael; Jaime Pacaya Inuma; Ema Llona Yareja; Hermenegildo Di?az Cuyasa; Ligia Inuma Inuma; Kathryn Metz
Recent Publication, 2017
A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tupí-Guaraní and Chapacuran languages
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri; Joshua Birchall; Sérgio Meira; Zachary O’Hagan; Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2016
A Linguistic Analysis of Old Omagua Ecclesiastical Texts
Lev Michael; Zachary O'Hagan
Recent Publication, 2016
A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupí-Guaraní
Lev Michael; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri; Keith Bartolomei; Erin Donnelly; Vivian Wauters; Sérgio Meira; Zachary O'Hagan
Recent Publication, 2015
On the Pre-Columbian origin of Proto-Omagua-Kokama
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2014
The Nanti reality status system: Implications for the typological validity of the realis/irrealis contrast
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2014
A sketch of Muniche segmental and prosodic phonology
Lev Michael; Stephanie Farmer; Gregory Finley; Christine Beier; Karina Sullón Acosta
Recent Publication, 2013
Nanti self-quotation: Implications for the pragmatics of reported speech and evidentiality
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2012
Arawak Linguistics and Max Schmidt’s Account of Arawak Expansion
Lev Michael
Recent Publication, 2008
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