Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 6482
E-Mail:	m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL promovendus
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 4 2311 BX Leiden Room number 206A

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Curriculum Vitae

2000-2001: Highschool student exchange Ibarra, Ecuador
2001-2006: Doctoraal Talen en Culturen van Latijns-Amerika, Universiteit Leiden
2004: Semester abroad at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005: Fieldwork Ecuador
2006-2008: MPhil Linguistics: Structure and Variation in the Languages of the World, LUCL
2007-2008: MA American Indian Studies, Universiteit Leiden
2007: Fieldwork Ecuador 2007: Quarter abroad at UCLA, California.
2008-present: PhD-student, LUCL

Fields of Interest

• American Indian Languages
• Spanish
• Language Contact
• Language Change
• Language Variation 

Research Activities

Evidentials in the languages of South America: semantic diversity, typology and genesis.

Publications

Bruil, M. (2008). Give + gerund in Ecuadorian Spanish A calque from Quichua or a large process of contact induced change?, Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 5.1, 1-23.

Bruil, M. (2008). Innovations in the Ecuadorian Converb Systems: Grammatical change in language contact situations. MA Thesis