A grammar of Yauyos Quechua

Aviva Shimelman earned a PhD in Linguistics from Université Laval and an MA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught in California in the Linguistics Department at San José State University and in Merrill College at the University of California at Santa Cruz; in China, she taught in the School of Foreign Languages at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai. She was a fellow for three years in the Documenting Endangered Languages program of the US National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation. She is currently working on a project of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Vanuatu documenting the languages of Malekula.