David William Fleck

CURRICULUM VITAE

born: Lima, Peru, 31 August 1969 citizenship: United States of America

CURRENT ADDRESS DATE: 10 May 2007 Research Centre for Linguistic Typology PHONE: 61-3-9479 6414 La Trobe University FAX: 61-3-9467 3053 Victoria 3086 E-MAIL: d.fleck@latrobe.edu.au Australia fleck@alumni.rice.edu

EDUCATION Primary and secondary school: Grades 1-2 in Peru, 3-12 in the United States 1993 B.S. Magna cum Laude, With Distinction, Major in Zoology, Minor in Portuguese,

The Ohio State University 1997 M.S. Zoology, The Ohio State University 2002 M.A. Linguistics, Rice University 2003 Ph.D. Linguistics, Rice University

CURRENT POSITIONS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe

University Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History Courtesy Research Associate, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon

FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 1991-2 Honor’s research in Amazonian Peru on marsupial biology (9 months) 1994-6 Master’s research in Amazonian Peru on Matses ethnobiology (24 months) 1998-2002 Doctoral research in Amazonian Peru on the Matses language (24 months) 1998-2000 Three Semesters of field methods class in Houston on the Akawaio language

(Cariban) 2000 Research on the Ye’kwana language (Cariban family) in Venezuela (1 week) 2003 Research on Matses ethnobiology and on the Chankuëshbo, Kulina and Dëmushbo

languages (Panoan) in Amazonian Peru (3 months) 2004-6 Postdoctoral research on the Matses, Marubo, Matis, Chankuëshbo, Kulina and

Dëmushbo languages (all Panoan) in Amazonian Peru and Brazil (15 months)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE lecturer:

linguistic analysis (morphology and syntax), Rice University, 2000 teaching assistant:

conservation biology, mammalogy, general biology, The Ohio State University, 1996-7 introductory linguistics, linguistic analysis, Rice University, 1997-2001

LANGUAGES SPOKEN FLUENTLY English, Spanish, Portuguese, Matses

RESEARCH LANGUAGES Matses, Marubo, Matis, and 3 obsolescent Panoan languages spoken by Matses captives

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PUBLICATIONS Linguistics:

Fleck, David W. 2002. “Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru).” In The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, Masayoshi Shibatani (editor), 373-415. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

———. 2005. “Ergatividade em Matsés (Pano).” LIAMES (Línguas Indígenas Americanas), 5:89-111.

———. 2006. “Body-part prefixes in Matses: Derivation or noun incorporation?” International Journal of American Linguistics, 72(1): 59-96.

———. 2006. “Antipassive in Matses.” Studies in Language, 30(3): 541-573. ———. 2006. “Panoan Languages.” In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics,

2nd Edition, Keith Brown (editor), volume 9, 156-157. Elsevier: Oxford. ———. 2006. “Complement clause type and complementation strategies in Matses.” In

Complementaion: A Cross-linguistic Typology, R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (editors), 224-244. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

———. 2007. “Field linguistics meets biology: How to obtain scientific designations for plant and animal names.” Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 60(1): 81-91.

———. in press. “Evidentiality and double tense in Matses.” Language, 83 (3) (67 ms. pp.).

———. in press. “Coreferential fourth-person pronouns in Matses.” International Journal of American Linguistics, 74 (76 ms. pp.).

———. to appear. “Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family.” In Ergativity in Amazonia (provisional title), F. Queixalós, Spike Gildea and Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues (editors) (53 ms. pp.).

———. to appear. A Grammar of Matses, a Panoan Language of Western Amazonia. Mouton de Gruyter. (897 ms. pp.; accepted May 2006)

Ethnolinguistics: Fleck, David W. 2001. “Culture-specific notions of causation in Matses grammar.”

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 87: 177-196. ———. in press. “¿Quiénes eran los Mayoruna de Tessmann?” Amazonía Peruana, 30

(31 ms. pp.). ———. in press. “Did the Kulinas become the Marubos?: A linguistic and

ethnohistorical investigation.” Tipití, Journal of The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (104 ms. pp.).

——— and Robert S. Voss. in press. “On the origin and cultural significance of unusually large synonym sets in some Panoan languages of western Amazonia.” Anthropological Linguistics (64 ms. pp.).

Ethnobiology: ———, Robert S. Voss & James L. Patton. 1999. “Biological basis of saki monkey

(Pithecia) species recognized by Matses Indians of Amazonian Peru.” International Journal of Primatology, 20(6): 1005-1028.

——— & John D. Harder. 2000. “Matses Indian rainforest habitat classification and mammalian diversity in Amazonian Peru.” Journal of Ethnobiology, 20(1): 1-36.

———, Robert S. Voss & Nancy B. Simmons. 2002. “Underdifferentiation and sublexemic categories: An example from Matses bat classification.” Journal of Ethnobiology, 22(1): 63-104.

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Zoology: Fleck, David W. & John D. Harder. 1995. “Ecology of marsupials in two rainforests of

northeastern Peru.” Journal of Mammalogy, 76(3): 809-818. Harder, John D. & David W. Fleck. 1997. “Reproductive ecology of New World

marsupials.” In Marsupial Biology: Recent Research, New Perspectives, Norman. R. Saunders and Lyn. A. Hinds (editors), 175-204. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Simmons, Nancy B., Robert S. Voss & David W. Fleck. 2002. “A new Amazonian species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with notes on the natural history of sympatric congeners.” American Museum Novitates, 3358, 14 pp.

Pedagogical materials: Romanoff, Steven, Daniel Manquid Jiménez Huanan, Fernando Shoque Uaquí Bëso &

David W. Fleck. 2004. Matsesën Nampid Chuibanaid: La Vida Tradicional de los Matsés. Lima: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica, 148 pp.

Fleck, David W. to appear. Diccionario Matsés-Castellano. Lima: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica (156 ms. pp.; accepted in April 2006).

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in the Javari-Ucayali interfluve of

northeastern Peru (monograph, with R. Voss) Pet vocatives as an areal characteristic of western Amazonian Brazil (article, with S.

Dienst) The linguistic and historical identity of the Remos in comparative Panoan perspective

(volume chapter, with L. Krokoszynski) Comparative Panoan histories and interethnic contacts (edited volume, with J. Ruedas) The Mayoruna languages of the Panoan Family (monograph) Matses-English analytical and etymological dictionary (monograph)

THESES 1993. Reproductive ecology of marsupials in the rainforest of Northeastern Peru.

Honor’s thesis in zoology, The Ohio State University, 60 pp. 1997. Mammalian diversity in rainforest habitats recognized by the Matses Indians in the

Peruvian Amazon. M.S. thesis in zoology, The Ohio State University, 123 pp. 2003. A Grammar of Matses. Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics, Rice University, 1257 pp.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS “Coreferential fourth-person pronouns in Matses.” Presented at the Troisième réunion du

programme international de coopération scientifique: L’ergativité en Amazonie, Centre d’études des langues indigènes d’Amérique (Paris, 2004)

“Complementation in Matses.” Presented at the La Trobe University Research Centre for Linguistic Typology International Workshop on Complement Clauses and Complementation Strategies (Melbourne, 2004)

“Antipassivo em Matsés.” Presented at the Segunda Reunião do Projeto de Ergatividade na Amazônia, Universidade de Brasília (Brasília, 2003)

“Ergatividade na língua Matsés (família Pano).” Presented at the Primeira Reunião do Projeto de Ergatividade na Amazônia, Universidade de Brasília (Brasilia, 2002)

“Causer nominalizations in Matses (Panoan; Amazonian Peru).” Presented at the 8th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Linguistics (Houston, 2000)

“Rainforest classification of the Matses Indians of the Peruvian Amazon.” Presented at the Wildlife Society Annual Conference (Cincinnati, 1996)

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OTHER PRESENTATIONS At the University of Melbourne on evidentiality and double tense in Matses (2007). At the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University (Melbourne) on

prefixation vs. noun incorporation in Matses (2004), inter-tribal raiding and linguistic contact among northern Panoans (2005), and evidentiality in Matses (2006).

At the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima) on ethnolinguistics (2006). At the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Lima) on linguistic and cultural contact

among the Matses and neighboring indigenous groups (2004). At the Programa de Formación de Maestros Bilingües de la Amazonía Peruana (Iquitos)

on Matses evidentiality (2000) ergativity (2002) and prefixation (2003). At the Rice University Linguistics Departmental Colloquium (Houston) on Matses

classification systems (1998) and evidentiality in the Matses language (2001) At the American Museum of Natural History (New York) on Matses knowledge of

mammalian diversity in rainforest habitats (1997) At the Ohio State University Conservation Biology Seminar Series on ethnobiology

(1994), Amazonian rainforest habitats (1996), and conservation in Amazonia (1997) At the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (Iquitos) on ethnozoology

(1995) At the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (Iquitos) on marsupial ecology

(1994)

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Rice University Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Fellowship, 2000-2001 American Museum of Natural History Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Research

Grant, 1998, 1999 Rice University Provost’s Fellowship, 1997-1998 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1996, 1998-1999 Tinker Foundation Research Travel Grant, 1994 The Ohio State University Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1994 The Ohio State University Scarlet and Gray Scholarship, 1992 Lewis G. Bernstein Memorial Scholarship, 1992 The Ohio State University Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant, 1991, 1992 Summer Research Opportunity Program, 1991, 1992 Minority Scholars Program Prestigious Scholarship, 1989-1993