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Guillem Belmar Viernes

Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
gbelmar@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9.30 to 11.30 @ Straub 279
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
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/guillem-belmar-eng
Lab Website: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/revitalizationlab/
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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.

2025b. The expressions of ‘already’ in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó. Linguistic Vanguard. 

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. 

2024b. No és bona educació, és minorització: sostenibilitat lingüística en la diversitat [It’s not politeness, it’s minorization: linguistic sustainability in diversity]. Living Languages, 3(1). 

2024a. Salazar, Jeremías, Griselda Reyes Basurto, Guillem Belmar, Simon L. Peters, & Eric W. Campbell. Justicia lingüística y procesos de documentación: traducciones para informar a la comunidad Ñuu Savi sobre el COVID19 [Language justice and documentation processes: translations to inform the Ñuu Savi community about COVID19]. Living Languages, 3(1). 263-288. 

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