Forthcoming: Notes on the grammar of Andakí

Jelien Moens holds MAs in Linguistics and Translation from KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium. In her Linguistics program, she specialized in comparative and historical linguistics. Her MA thesis, titled The grammar of Andaquí, an extinct language isolate of western Colombia, was written under the supervision of Matthias Pache. This book is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded version of that thesis, which received the L. K. Engels Award for the best MA thesis in linguistics at KU Leuven.

Matthias Pache holds a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and has worked in linguistic research and teaching at the Universities of Leiden, Bonn, Tübingen, and Passau (Germany), as well as KU Leuven (Belgium), where he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research centers on indigenous languages of South and Central America, with a special focus on the Chibchan family and the languages of the central and southern Andes, including Aymaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan. He has published on descriptive and contact linguistics, linguistic typology, and the historiography of American indigenous linguistics. His work in historical linguistics focuses on the comparative method and genealogical relationships among American indigenous languages.