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Brigitte PAKENDORF

• DR2, CNRS

 04 72 72 64 10

 Brigitte.Pakendorf@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

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 TEMAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN

• Contact influence in the diversification of Ėven dialects
• Areal typology of Siberian languages
• Molecular anthropological perspectives on (pre-)historic contact of Ėvens and Dolgans
• Molecular anthropological perspectives on prehistory in southern Africa

 OTRAS ACTIVIDADES CIENTIFÍCAS Y ADMINISTRATIVAS

• Member of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
• Member of the Societas Linguistica Europeae (SLE)
• Member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• Member of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (GBS)
• Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Human Biology (2008-2010)
• Member of the ESF Pool of Peer Reviewers (May 2010 – April 2011)
• Ad hoc reviewer for: European Journal of Human Genetics, Human Genetics, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Sibirica, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae, Linguistic Typology

 TRABAJO DE CAMPO

• Linguistic fieldwork on Ėven in: Sebjan-Küöl, Yakutia (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012), Central Kamchatka (2007, 2009)
• Linguistic fieldwork on Sakha (Yakut) in: Verkhoyansk, Suntar, Olenek, and Taatta districts (2002), Verkhoyansk district (2003, 2006)
• Genetic fieldwork in: Yakutia (2002, 2003, 2008), Kamchatka (2007), Solomon Islands (2004), Zambia (2007), Botswana (2009), Namibia (2011)

 RESPONSABILIDAD DE PROYECTOS

• April 2009 – March 2013: Documentation of the dialectal and cultural diversity among Ėvens in Siberia (DoBeS project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation)
• September 2009 – August 2012: The Central Kalahari area with a focus on ǂHoan (Ju-ǂHoan family): language contact and population genetics” within the Collaborative Research Project “The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction” (EUROCORES programme ‘EuroBABEL’)
• January 2007 – December 2011: Leader of Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics with projects on:
• Population history of Western Zambia
• Population relationships and language change in Burkina Faso
• Documentation of ǂHoan with a focus on contact influence
• Population relationships among Khoisan of Botswana and Namibia
• Contact influence in the dialects of Ėven
• Contact influence in the Dolgan language
• Population prehistory and population contact in Siberia
• Language contact and history in southern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
• Language contact between the languages Gela and Savosavo, Central Solomon Islands

 DISTINCIÓN Y FINANCIAMIENTO

• May 2012: General grant from the Leakey Foundation for “Investigating the prehistory of southern African hunter-gatherers with Y-chromosome sequences”
• April 2012: Post-PhD research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. for “Investigating the prehistory of ‘Khoisan’-speaking hunter-gatherers from southern Africa with large-scale Y-chromosome sequences”
• April 2009 – March 2013: DoBeS grant from the Volkswagen Stiftung for “Documentation of the dialectal and cultural diversity among Ėvens in Siberia” (together with Dejan Matić, Katharina Gernet, and Vasilij Robbek)
• September 2009 – August 2012: DFG grant for “The Central Kalahari area with a focus on ǂHoan (Ju-ǂHoan family): language contact and population genetics” within the Collaborative Research Project “The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction” (EUROCORES programme ‘EuroBABEL’)
• November 2008: ‘Anéla/AVT Dissertatieprijs’ for the best dissertation in Linguistics defended at a Dutch university in 2007
• February – October 2002: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Nr. 6828 from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
• July – August 2000: Mombusho Research Experience Fellowship for Young Foreign Researchers, Japan
• March 1998 – December 2000: PhD Student’s Scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”, Germany
• October 1993 – August 1994: Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for studies in Moscow

 CURSOS

• June 2010: Course on ‘Language Contact’, LOT summer school in Nijmegen (10 hours)
• October – December 2008: Advanced level seminar ‘The languages of Siberia – a typological overview’ at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (30 hours)
• October – November 2007: Advanced level seminar ‘The structure of Sakha (Yakut)’ at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (30 hours)
• October 2006 – February 2007: Advanced level seminar ‘Linguistic and genetic perspectives on language contact’ at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (28 hours)
• March 2006: ‘Genetic and linguistic diversity - a comparison’ at the Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity (8 hours)
• February 2001: Practical course “Molecular genetics” at the Institute of Human Biology, University of Hamburg (36 hours)
• February 2000: Practical course “Molecular genetics” at the Institute of Human Biology, University of Hamburg (36 hours)

 ACTIVIDADES DE ENCUADRAMIENTO

PhD students

• Falko Berthold (ǂHoan morpho-syntax and selected aspects of the historical development of the language; co-supervision with Tom Güldemann, Humboldt Universität Berlin); from May 2009, estimated date of thesis submission end of 2013
• Natalia Aralova (A phonetic and phonological description of Even with a focus on acoustic vowel properties and vowel harmony; co-supervision with Sven Grawunder, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolog; official supervisors Silke Hamann and Paul Boersma, Free University, Amsterdam); from April 2009, estimated date of thesis submission September 2013
• Linda Gerlach (Phonology of ǂHoan; co-supervision with Tom Güldemann, Humboldt Universität Berlin); from April 2009, estimated date of thesis submission June 2013
• Eugénie Stapert (Contact influence in Dolgan; official supervisor Maarten Mous, University of Leiden); from February 2008, thesis submitted February 2013
• Chiara Barbieri (Molecular anthropological approaches to prehistoric population contact amongst so-called Khoisan peoples); from September 2009, thesis submitted March 2013
• Cesare de Filippo (Molecular Anthropological Perspectives on the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa; official head of thesis committee Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology); from January 2007; thesis defense on 08.04.2011

Master’s students

• Luise Zippel (Finiteness in Ėven: An investigation of verbal (non-)finiteness with a focus on a dialectal comparison of the perfect participle –čE [in German]); October 2011 – July 2012

Bachelor’s students

• Jana Neuwirt (The educational system of the minority peoples of the north of Russia [in German]); January - July 2010

 ACTIVIDADES INTERNACIONALES

• July – August 2000: Research at the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
• April – June 1998: Research at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa
• March – July 1995: Research at the Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia
• October 1993 – October 1994: Studies of biological anthropology at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Pakendorf, B., 2013, "Incipient grammaticalization of a redundant purpose clause marker in Lamunxin Ėven: Contact-induced change or independent innovation? ", in Shared Grammaticalization. With special focus on Transeurasian languages. , Robbeets, M. & Cuyckens, H. (eds), Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp. 259-283

Pakendorf, B., 2013, "The interplay of language-internal variation and contact influence in language change", in The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings. , Léglise, I. & Chamoreau, C. (eds), Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp. 199-227

Pakendorf, B., 2012, "Patterns of relativization in North Asia: towards a refined typology of prenominal participial relative clauses", in Complex clauses in Cross-linguistic perspective. , Diessel, H. & Gast, V. (eds), de Gruyter Mouton, pp. 253-283

Barbieri, C., Butthof, A., Bostoen, K. & Pakendorf, B., 2013, "Genetic perspectives on the origin of clicks in Bantu languages from southwestern Zambia", European Journal of Human Genetics, 21, pp. 430-436

Barbieri, C., Vicente, M., Rocha, J., Mpoloka, S., Stoneking, M. & Pakendorf, B., 2013, "Ancient Substructure in Early mtDNA Lineages of Southern Africa", American Journal of Human Genetics , 92:2, pp. 285–292

de Filippo, C., Bostoen, K., Stoneking, M. & Pakendorf, B., 2012, "Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion", Proceedings of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 279:1741, pp. 3256-3263

Pickrell, J., Patterson, N., Barbieri, C., Berthold, F., Gerlach, L., Lipson, M., Loh, P.R., Güldemann, T., Kure, B., Mpoloka, S., Nakagawa, H., Naumann, C., Mountain, J., Bustamante, C., Berger, B., Henn, B., Stoneking, M., Reich, D. & Pakendorf, B., 2012, "The genetic prehistory of southern Africa", Nature Communications, 3:1143, pp. doi:10.1038/ncomms2140

Delfin, F., Myles, S., Choi, Y., Hughes, D., Illek, R., van Oven, M., Pakendorf, B., Kayser, M. & Stoneking, M., 2012, "Bridging Near and Remote Oceania: mtDNA and NRY Variation in the Solomon Islands", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29:2, pp. 545-564