Eladio (B'alam) Mateo-Toledo

Mexican Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Eladio Mateo-Toledo (B'alam) received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and is a research professor of Linguistics at the Mexican Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Unidad Sureste. His interests include language description and documentation, training native speaker linguists, morphosyntax, complex predicates, and Mayan linguistics. He has done collaborative research and language documentation of the Mayan languages Q'anjob'al (his native language), Akateko, and Awakateko. He has also done work on the integration of documentation, grammatical research, and the creation of teaching materials. His publications include La cuestión Akateko-Q'anjob'al, una comparación gramatical (Universidad Mariano Gálvez 1999), Gramática práctica Q'anjob'al (Universidad Rafael Landívar 1998) and "Predicación secundaria en el Awakateko (Maya)?" (in La predication secundaria en lenguas de Mesoamérica, CIESAS 2010).