
On November 16th, 2021, we presented _Historias que contaban los antiguos. Caminos al mundo mocoví_ (Aquino et al 2021), a bilingual (Mocoví-Spanish) comic collection based on my fieldwork-collected data from the central-north region of Chaco. This book resulted from a joint effort among Mocoví community members, a Villa Angela local illustrator and me. The book was presented in the Ibero-American book fair in Resistencia, Chaco. [Find more on the book presentation here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uvB8kO0vRA)

![Aquino et al. 2021. Historias que contaban los antiguos caminos al mundo mocoví.](/img/book-historias.jpg)


On November 16th, 2021, we presented "Historias que contaban los antiguos. Caminos al mundo mocoví."

Historias. Book presentation


# Welcome!

Thank you for visiting! On this page, you will find up-to-date information on my academic interests and research activities. I am a new postdoctoral researcher at the [Department of Linguistics and Cultural Evolution at the MPI-EVA](https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/index/). I recently obtained my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the [Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/), and I also hold an M.A. in Linguistics from the [Universidad de Sonora](https://maestriaenlinguistica.unison.mx/) (México). My academic training began with a B.A. in Letters (emphasis on Linguistics) and a teaching degree in Language and Literature from my alma mater [Universidad Nacional del Nordeste](https://hum.unne.edu.ar/academica/departamentos/letras/index.htm) (Argentina).

I grew up in [Villa Ángela](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Villa+%C3%81ngela,+Chaco+Province,+Argentina/@-26.684482,-60.2093646,7.54z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x9447a9b6238452b5:0x114ee7641418f02f!8m2!3d-27.5758266!4d-60.7136879), a charming small town in northeastern Argentina. My hometown is famous for its carnival celebrations and for being home to one of the largest Mocoví indigenous communities in Argentina. Since 2011, I have had the privilege of conducting fieldwork and linguistic research in my home state, exploring the fascinating Mocoví language and culture.   


Welcome


# News

- [Historias. Book presentation](/news/historias)

[More news](/news)


News


# Research

My research lies at the intersection of Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics, with a strong emphasis on community-based models for language and social empowerment of indigenous communities. I focus mostly on South American indigenous languages and the social and linguistic effects that these languages have come to have on local varieties of Spanish and vice versa. I am currently working on a multimodal open-access documentation of Mocoví (ISO: 639-3 moc), a Gauycuruan language spoken in northeastern Argentina. In the last six years, this documentation project has been funded by the Department of Linguistics at UT Austin and more recently by the [Endangered Language Documentation Programme](https://www.eldp.net/en/our+projects/projects+list/) and the [National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918028&HistoricalAwards=false).

### Publications

#### Books

- Aquino, Gonzalo, Héctor José, Nieves José &amp; Cristian Juárez. 2021. _Historias que contaban los antiguos. Caminos al mundo mocoví_ ConTexto: Resistencia, Chaco. [Full book available here.](https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_8eca412c-bd53-437f-b768-ab0403b9dbea/)

#### Papers (peer-reviwed)

- Juárez, Cristian. Under review. Constituency in Mocoví. In Tallman, Adam, Sandra Auderset and Hiroto Uchihara (Eds.). _Constituency and Convergence in the Americas_. Berlin: Language Science Press.

- Juárez, Cristian &amp; Adrianan Zurlo. Under review. Relaciones simétricas en dos lenguas guaycurúes: toba y mocoví. In Regúnaga, Alejandra, Dioney Gómez &amp; Arthur Scandelari. E-book on *Morfosintaxis de lenguas de Sudamérica*, Publicaciones ALFAL. 

- Juárez, Cristian. 2022. [Relaciones flexibles en Mocoví: morfología y léxico.](https://doi.org/10.56683/rs222135) In *Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos*, (2) 97-124, DOI: <https://doi.org/10.56683/rs222135>.

- Juárez, Cristian &amp; Albert Álvarez González. 2021. [Explaining the antipassive-causative syncretism in Mocoví (Guaycuruan): A diachronic account](//assets.ctfassets.net/9gxy4onz2hf3/1FchkZxZAEx5Nmcw3mOcyd/30ab4f2e6e962e0c26e9df35ba3a0aa0/Ju__rez__C_and_Alvarez-Gonz__lez._2021._Explaining_the_antipassive-causative_syncretism_in_Mocov__.pdf). In Janic Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Eds), _The multifaceted nature of Antipassive_ (pp.315-347). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

- Juárez, Cristian &amp; Albert Álvarez González. 2017. [The antipassive marking in Mocoví. Forms and Functions](//assets.ctfassets.net/9gxy4onz2hf3/K0RcvcxsPk7xl0QTEPgHk/1ffbc380fae94db0cd76970409d20952/Ju__rez__C._and_Alvarez-Gonz__lez._2017._The_antipassive_marking_in_Mocov__.pdf). In Álvarez González, A &amp; Ía Navarro Ibarra (Eds.), _Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and Typological Perspectives_ (pp.227-254). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

### Unpublished writings

- Juárez, Cristian. 2018. Mocoví agent-like defocusing. Beyond the passive. Qualifying paper.

- Juárez, Cristian. 2017. Grammatical diffusion among Guaycuruan and Mataguayan languages. Lanaguage Contact class. Final paper, [handout]

- Juárez, Cristian. 2016. Transitivity and valence-increasing in Mocoví. An account for the _-aʔa_ transitive marker. Linguistic typology class. Final paper, [handout]

- Juárez, Cristian. 2013. Sistemas de alineación en el mocoví (guayucurú, Argentina) hablado en Colonia Aborigen. MA Thesis. University of Sonora.         [Available here.](https://maestriaenlinguistica.unison.mx/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/36Tcrj.pdf)

### Presentations and Invited talks (last 3 years)

- Juárez, Cristian &amp; Adriana Zurlo. Propiedades semántico-sintácticas de las construcciones recíprocas en mocoví y toba (guaycurú, Argentina). Paper presented at _ALFAL_, August 10, 2021. Online

- Juárez, Cristian. Third person encoding in Mocoví and its implications for language asymmetry explanations. _IX Syntax of the World languages_, Perú. Conference cancelled due to COVID-19

- Juárez, Cristian. The causative-instrumental polysemy: evidence from languages of the Gran Chaco. Paper presented at _SSILA_, January 8. 2021. Online

- Tallman, Adam &amp; Cristian Juárez. Recursive structures as constituency diagnostics in Chácobo and Mocoví. Paper presented at _SSILA_, January 7. 2021. Online.

- Juárez, Cristian. Causativización y nominalización instrumental en mocoví (guaycurú, Argentina). Tipología y evolución. Invited talk at the Seminar _Reflexiones gramaticales sobre las lenguas indígenas de América_, Universidad Pública del Alto, November 22, 2020. Bolivia.

- Juárez, Cristian. Expanding the causative-instrumental polysemy: evidence from Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina) Paper presented at the Seminar _Diacronía, adposiciones y argumentos nucleares y oblícuos_, Universidad de Sonora, November 12-13, 2020. Mexico.

- Juárez, Cristian. Documentación y descripción en el Gran Chaco Argentino: el caso del mocoví del centro-norte chaqueño. Plenary talk at the _Seminario Permanente de lenguas indígenas_. November 16, 2019. Bogotá, Colombia.

- Juárez, Cristian. El proceso de investigación lingüística: documentación y descripción del mocoví chaqueño. Invited talk at the Universidad de La Cuenca del Plata. October 8, 2019, Chaco, Argentina.

- Juárez, Cristian. Defocalización de agente en lenguas guaycurúes: origen y evolución. Poster presentation at _Semana Cultural 2019. Perspectivas del quehacer lingüístico_, Universidad de Sonora, March 25-29, 2019. Hermosillo, México.


Research


# Teaching and Research Positions

### Last 6 years:

- Assistant Instructor. SPN 601D Beginning Spanish. Fall 2021, University of Texas at Austin.

- Assistant Instructor. LIN 345 Language Change and Language Variation. Spring 2020, University of Texas at Austin.

- Independent Study and Research. Summer &amp; Fall 2019. University of Texas at Austin.

- Assistant Instructor. SPN 601D Beginning Spanish. Spring 2019, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant (UGS). Cross-cultural tongues. Fall 2018, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant. Introduction to the Study of Language. Spring 2018, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant. Introduction to the Study of Language. Fall 2017, University of Texas at Austin.

- Research Assistant. PI: Patience Epps. Spring 2017, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant. Course: Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Fall 2016, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant. Course: Introduction to the Study of Language. Spring 2016, University of Texas at Austin.

- Teaching Assistant. Course: Language Change and Language Variation. Fall 2015, University of Texas at Austin.


Teaching and research positions


# Grants, Scholarships and Awards

- NSF-Documenting Endangered Languages-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, ID 1918028. [The Interaction of Transitivity Alternations and Verbal Affix Stacking in a Morphologically Complex Language](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918028&HistoricalAwards=false). Period July 2019-December 2021.

- Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) Grant, ID IGS0365. [Documentation and Description of Northern Chaco Mocoví](https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1314056). Period July 2019-December 2021

- Continuing Graduate Student Fellow. Summer 2020-Summer 2021. University of Texas at Austin.

- Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship Supplement. September 2019-August 2020. University of Texas at Austin.

- Research Assistant Scholarship. CONACYT (México). PI: Dr. Zarina Estrada Fernández. Universidad de Sonora. 2014-2015.

- _Suma cum laudae_. M.A. Thesis. Sistemas de alineación en el mocoví (guaycurú) hablado en Colonia Aborigen (Chaco, Argentina) [Alignment systems in Mocoví (Guaycuruan) spoken in Colonia Aborigen (Chaco, Argentina)]. Universidad de Sonora, November 07, 2013.

- Visiting Research Student at the Department of Linguistics at Max Planck Institute. CONACYT Scholarship (México). March-April, 2013.


Grants, scholarships and awards


# Curriculum Vitae

[Download Curriculum Vitae](/docs/CV.pdf)


Curriculum vitae


# Contact

Cristian R. Juárez  
Post-doc  
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution  
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology  
Deutscher Platz 6  
04103 Leipzig, Germany    
<cristian_juarez@eva.mpg.de>

