Portrait of Guillem Belmar Viernes

Guillem Belmar Viernes

Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies, Latinx
Office Hours: Thursdays 11 to 12 & Fridays 10 to 11 @ Straub 261 (Language Revitalization Lab)
Research Interests: Language revitalization; language maintenance; language rights; language documentation; minority multilingualism; Minoritized Languages and (Social Media); Minoritized Language Translation; Indigenous diaspora; Mesomerica; Otomanguean Languages (Mixtec); P'urhépecha; Basque; Catalan

Education

Ph.D. 2024, University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A. 2018, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

M.A. 2017, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

B.A. 2013, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Publications

Latest publications:

2026. Belmar, Guillem & Jeremías Salazar. The many things that ‘thing’ can become: A story of discourse and grammar in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec). Functions of Language, 32(3). 285-313.  

2025b. The expressions of ‘already’ in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó. Linguistic Vanguard, 11(s1). 17-28.

2025a. Outsourcing translations of COVID-19 information into minoritized languages: the #europeminoritylanguages project. In Miren Manias Muñoz, Sergiusz Bober & Craig Willis (eds.) Minority Language Media: Current challenges in a fragmented landscape, 149-186. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. 

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