Aguinda, Scott, and AnderBois' paper was titled "Una descripción de la conjunción en a'ingae, una lengua amazónica" [A description of conjunction in A'ingae, an Amazonian language]. It presented recent findings about the syntactic properties of two different ways of expressing conjunction (meanings akin to English "and") in A'ingae.

 

The conference, organized by the Linguistic Summer School of Bolivia and students at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, covered topics ranging from language documentation and revitalization to language policy and various grammatical topics, all focused on indigenous languages of Latin America. The conference closed with an apthapi -- a traditional Aymara communal feast -- featuring no fewer than 7 types of potatoes!

 

In addition to the conference, AnderBois gave a talk in Cochabamba to an audience of more than 200(!) undergraduate students at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón. The talk focused on community-engaged language documentation of a'ingae, sharing work from the now ten-year old A'ingae Language Documentation Project, a collaboration between A'i community members, faculty partners, and of course many Brown undergraduate students.