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Elena Mihas

Email: elena.mihas@jcu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Amazonian languages
• Arawak languages
• Language contact
• Syntactic typology
• Sociocultural contexts of language endangerment
• Language documentation
• Language revitalization
• Grammar-writing

Peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings

Mihas, E. (2010). Essentials of Ashéninka Perené grammar (Doctoral dissertation). Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin. Retrieved from

Mihas, E. (2010). Gender system in Ashéninka Perené (Arawak).UniverSOS: Revista de Lenguas Indígenas y Universos Culturales, 7, 119-130.

Mihas, E. (2011). Añaani katonkosatzi parenini. El idioma del Alto Perené. Collection of texts. Milwaukee: Clark Graphics. Available online at

Mihas, E. (2012). Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Ashéninka Perené myths and folk stories. In A. Idström, & E. Piirainen (Eds.), Endangered metaphors, (pp. 145-160). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mihas, E. (2012). Subcontracting native speakers in linguistic fieldwork: A case study of the Ashéninka Perené (Arawak) research community from the Peruvian Amazon. Language Conservation and Documentation, 6, 1-21. Retrieved from