Ivette González

PhD
Linguistics

Title of Dissertation : A multidisciplinary approach to Pa Ipai grammar

This dissertation documents and analyzes the grammatical structure of the Pa Ipai language, an Indigenous language of Baja California, Mexico, with the goal of producing a systematic reference grammar that can support both scholarly research and community-based language teaching. The project focuses on identifying, describing, and illustrating the formal and functional properties of Pa Ipai grammatical categories as they are realized in natural language use.