Saskia Dunn is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, interested in the history of the Indigenous languages of South America and the people who spoke them. Her PhD project is entitled "Language contact in the history of South America: the impact of Arawakan classifier systems".

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Fields of interest

• Language contact
• Arawakan languages
• Amazonian languages
• Classifiers

Research

I am investigating the role of inheritance and contact in the development of the Arawakan classifier system(s), in three areas of south America: the northwest Amazon, southwest Amazon, and the Guyanas.

Grants and awards

My research is funded by the NWO PhDs in the Humanities.

Publications