• 1972 born in Hamelin, Germany 
• 1992 A-Level at the Schiller-Gymnasium Hamelin
• 2001 Magister (MA) at the Leibnitz University Hanover, English Linguistics and Philosophy
• 2001–2002 Linguistic assistant in project Projekt Lexikurs (Cognitive Linguistics) at the University of Hanover
• 2003–2006 PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, with Stephen Levinson and Pieter Muysken                      
• 2006–2007 Linguistic assistant in program "Lexicon and Syntax" at the Radboud University Nijmegen, with Pieter Muysken and Mily Crevels
• 2007–2008 Linguistic assistant at the Radboud University Nijmegen for individual project "Arawak linguistic features" with Pieter Muysken
• 2007 PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, in General Linguistics
• 2008−2013 Baure documentation project (DoBeS) at the University of Leipzig
• 2011-2013 Paunaka documentation project PDP (SOAS, ELDP) at the University of Leipzig
• 2012-2014 Cooperating linguist in Referentiality Project (DobeS), University of Leipzig, University of Erfurt
• 2012-2014 Cooperating linguist in Noun to Verb Ratio Project (DobeS) at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Department of Linguistics
• 2015­­–2016 Cooperating linguist in project Articulation speed variation cross-linguistically, (DobeS), University Leipzig, University of Cologne.
• 2014-2017 Guarayu Documentation Project GIZAC (Gwarayu and intermediate zone between Amazonia and Chaco, Bolivia), University of Leipzig
• Since 2021 affiliated linguist at the EUF

Individual publications

Danielsen, Swintha. 2021 La distancia tipológica entre el castellano y las lenguas bolivianas, un obstáculo para comprender o aprender. Revista Páginas & Signos 16. Cochabamba, 163–187.

Danielsen, Swintha. 2019. Las ortografías del guarayu: historia y actualidad – Araka’e ikwachiaprɨ iyavei kuritëi ikwachiaprɨ. Revista Páginas & Signos 15. Cochabamba, 89-131. Copy accessible at: https://de.scribd.com/document/446300606/Araka-e-ikwachiapr%C9%A8-iyavei-kuritei-ikwachiapr%C9%A8-Las-ortografias-del-guarayu-historia-y-actualidad

Danielsen, Swintha. 2018. La historia de la lengua guarayu. Revista Páginas & Signos 14. Cochabamba, 39-58. Copy accessible at: https://de.scribd.com/document/417060018/La-historia-de-la-lengua-guarayu-Paginas-Signos14-2018

Danielsen, Swintha. 2016. GIZAC – Gwarayu and the Intermediate Zone (Amazonia – Chaco, Bolivia) documentation project. Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-BF45-3

Danielsen, Swintha. 2016. Arawakan data (ARW). In: Muysken, Pieter et al. (eds.) South American Indian Language Structures (SAILS) Online. Leipzig: Online Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. URL: http://sails.clld.org

Danielsen, Swintha. 2016. Reduplication and deduplication in Baure: two processes pulling on different ends. Online publication at: SCRIBD - URL: https://de.scribd.com/doc/299019757/Reduplication-and-deduplication-in-Baure-two-processes-pulling-on-different-ends

Danielsen, Swintha. 2015. Vikach Wawore-ye ach vavikopow vikoyepiapa: Going to Baures and coming from Baures and telling stories about directional motion verbs. In: Pieter Muysken (ed), Mily in Motion: A testimony on the occasion of Mily Crevels’ 60th birthday. Nijmegen: Radboud University, 13-17.

Danielsen, Swintha. 2015. Observing the evolution of TMA particles − replacing agglutinating strategies. In: Emmanuelle Labeau & Qiaochao Zhang (eds), Taming the TAME systems. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Rodopi (Cahiers Chronos 27), 1-23. DOI: 10.1163/9789004292772

Danielsen, Swintha. 2014. Multiple valency derivation in Baure. In: Francisco Queixalós (ed), Incremento De Valencia En Las Lenguas Amazónicas. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 283-309.

Danielsen, Swintha. 2014. Los verbos genéricos o pro-verbos en la lengua baure (familia Arawak). In: Marisay Malvestiti & Patricia Dreidemie (eds), III Encuentro de Lenguas Indígenas Americanas, Libro de Actas. Viedma: Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, 197-209.

URL: http://editorial.unrn.edu.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101:dos-nuevos-titulos-en-la-coleccion-nuevos-horizontes&catid=36&Itemid=2

Danielsen, Swintha. 2013. Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages. In: Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus & Otto Zwaartjes (eds), Historical reconstruction of American languages. STUF - Language Typology and Universals/ Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 66(3). Bremen: Akademie Verlag, 272-298.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2013.0014

Danielsen, Swintha. 2012. Afijos compuestos y su lexicalización en el baure (arawak), In: Marisa Censabella; Cristina Messineo; Hebe A. González & Beatriz Gualdieri (eds), Lenguas Indígenas de América del Sur I: Fonología y Léxico. Serie Volúmenes temáticos de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística Mendoza: Editorial FFyL-UNCuyo and SAL, 151-171.

URL: http://ffyl1.uncu.edu.ar/IMG/pdf/Gonzalez_y_Gualdieri_eds_2012.pdf

Danielsen, Swintha. 2012. Baure. In: Pieter Muysken & Mily Crevels (eds), Las lenguas de Bolivia. Volume 2: Amazonía. La Paz: Plural Editors, 295-339.

Danielsen, Swintha. 2011. The personal paradigms in Baure and other Southern Arawakan languages. In: Antoine Guillaume & Francoise Rose (eds), Argument-coding systems in Bolivian Amazonian languages, IJAL, 77(4), 495−520. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662154

Danielsen, Swintha. 2011. Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawak). In: Katharina Haude, Rik van Gijn, & Pieter Muysken (eds), Subordination in South American Indian languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 79−108. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.97.04dan

Danielsen, Swintha. 2011. Evaluating Arawakan features versus Guaporé-Mamoré features. Presentation at the workshop "Historical perspectives on Sprachbund phenomena: the case of the Guaporé-Mamoré", Radboud University Nijmegen, November 25, 2011. URL: https://de.scribd.com/document/469118366/Evaluating-Arawakan-features-versus-Guapore-Mamore-features

Danielsen, Swintha. 2008. La clasificación del idioma Baure dentro de la familia Arawak. Revista Página & Signos, 4. Cochabamba: Universidad de San Simón, 15−46.

URL: https://de.scribd.com/doc/299329038/La-clasificacion-del-idioma-Baure-dentro-de-la-familia-Arawak

Danielsen, Swintha. 2007. Baure: An Arawak Language of Bolivia. Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA) 6. Leiden: CNWS. URL: https://de.scribd.com/doc/299331234/BAURE-AN-ARAWAK-LANGUAGE-OF-BOLIVIA

Co-authored/edited publications

Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart. 2022. Body-part terms in Baure and Paunaka: A comparative analysis. In: Roberto Zariquiey & Pilar M. Valenzuela, The grammar of body-part expressions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, Vol. 7, No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063.

Strunk, Jan, Frank Seifart, Swintha Danielsen, Irene Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel. 2020. Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Language Documentation & Conservation, 14: 423-461.

Olthof, Marieke, Eva van Lier, Tjeu Claessen, Swintha Danielsen, Katharina Haude, Nico Lehmann, Maarten Mous, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Eline Visser, Marine Vuillermet, and Arok Wolvengrey. 2020. Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages, Linguistic Typology. Published online ahead of print 2020, URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lity/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-lingty-2020-2054/article-10.1515-lingty-2020-2054.xml?fbclid=IwAR3LTUYHmYDjaKT1AwtUVSG_cLvZ1Gs_2RcamZ7qNKfkLb9w1lQd0ILiUx8

Durand, Tom & Swintha Danielsen. 2020. Differential subject marking in Arawakan languages: Distribution and origins. Journal of Language Contact, 13(1), 141–176. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-bja10005. URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/13/1/article-p141_141.xml

Danielsen, Swintha and Sell, Lena and Terhart, Lena. 2019. Guarayu. A revised dictionary by Alfred Hoeller. Dictionaria 6. 1-3590. URL: https://matthew.clld.org/dictionaria/contributions/Guarayu.

Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja de Jonge, & Balthasar Bickel. 2018. Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115 (22), 5720-5725; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800708115.

Danielsen, Swintha; Franziska Riedel; & Federico Villalta. 2017. Diversidad Lingüística en los Llanos de Mojos. Poster for the Museo Etnoarqueológico "Kenneth Lee", Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia.

Danielsen, Swintha & Franziska Riedel. 2017. La Documentación del Baure: Un Idioma de la Amazonía Boliviana. Poster at the EEIA IV - Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología amazónica, 01/10/2017 - 07/10/2017, Trinidad, Bolivia, and for the Museo Etnoarqueológico "Kenneth Lee", Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia.

Danielsen, Swintha & Noé Gasparini. 2017. Discovering two almost extinct languages in Bolivia: Jorá and Guarasu. 18e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences du Langage, ED 268 Paris 3, Jun 2015, Paris, France. Available at: https://hal-univ-paris3.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01495156v1

Danielsen, Swintha & Sandro Sessarego. 2016. Lenguas indígenas de Latinoamérica. In: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed), Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica, Vol. 2. London/New York: Routledge Publishing Co, 708-720. URL: https://www.routledge.com/Enciclopedia-de-Linguistica-Hispanica/Gutierrez-Rexach/p/book/9781138941380

Danielsen, Swintha & Andreas Brockmann. 2016. Vorwort (Introduction). In: Lena Sell & Lena Terhart, Klassifikationen im Baure, LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics (LSNAL) 76. München: Lincom Academic Publishers, v‒xi. URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSNAL-76-Klassifikationen-im-Baure

Danielsen, Swintha & Noé Gasparini. 2015. News from the Jorá (Tupí-Guaraní) in the Bolivian Amazonia. In: Wolf Dietrich & Sebastian Drude (eds), Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Ciências Humanas, 10(2), 441-466. URL: http://www.museu-goeldi.br/editora/humanas/index.html

Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart. 2015. Realis/irrealis as a basic grammatical distinction in Southern Arawakan languages. In: Lotfi Abouda & Sophie Azzopardi (eds), Le Future, Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique (RSP) dedicated to the future tense, 38, 97-120. URL: http://www.univ-orleans.fr/rsp/numéro-38-décembre-2015-le-futur

Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart. 2015. Borrowed clause combining patterns in two Arawakan languages – Baure and Paunaka. In: Gonzalez-Rivera, Melvin & Sandro Sessarego (eds), Perspectives on Hispanic Contact Linguistics in the Americas. Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico. Vervuert: Iberoamericana, 121–152.

Danielsen, Swintha, Lena Terhart, & Federico Villalta. 2015. Paunaka language archive. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000A-2F58-1.

Danielsen, Swintha & Lena Terhart. 2014. Paunaka. In: Pieter Muysken & Mily Crevels (eds), Las lenguas de Bolivia, Vol. 3. La Paz: Plural Editors, 221-258.

Admiraal, Femmy & Swintha Danielsen. 2014. Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan)? In: Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannß & Fernando Zúñiga (eds), Word Formation in South American Languages. Studies in Language Companion Series, SLCS 163. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 79-112.

Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannß & Fernando Zúñiga (eds). 2014. Word Formation in South American Languages. Studies in Language Companion Series, SLCS 163. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

DOI: 10.1075/slcs.163.01dan

Eriksen, Love & Swintha Danielsen. 2014. The Arawakan Matrix. In: Loretta O’Connor & Pieter Muysken (eds), The Native Languages of South America: Origins, development, typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 152-176. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107360105.009

Birchall, Joshua, Swintha Danielsen, Love Eriksen, Ana Vilacy Galucio, Rik van Gijn, Harald Hammarström, Simon van der Kerke, Vishnupraya Kolipakam, Olga Krasnoukhova, Pieter Muysken, Neele Müller, & Loretta O’Connor. 2014. The languages of South America: deep families, areal relationships, and language contact, In: Loretta O’Connor & Pieter Muysken (eds), The Native Languages of South America: Origins, development, typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 299-322. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107360105.009

Danielsen, Swintha & Katja Hannss. 2013. "El estado actual de las lenguas bolivianas", Conferencia dado en el VII CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DE ESTUDIOS BOLIVIANOS, Sucre, Jul 29 – Jul 31, 2013. Online: https://de.scribd.com/document/326368478/Estado-de-Lenguas-Bolivianas

Danielsen, Swintha, Femmy Admiraal, Franziska Riedel, & Lena Terhart. 2008-2013. Baure language archive (The Language Archive, DobeS).

URL: https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?0&openpath=node:885634

Danielsen, Swintha, Michael Dunn & Pieter Muysken. 2011. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages: A View from Structural Phylogenetics. In: Jonathan Hill & Alf Hornborg (eds), Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 173−195.

Vidal Céspedez, Gilmar & Swintha Danielsen. 2011. El Carmen del Iténez: Monografía de un pueblo beniano. Santa Cruz: APCOB.

Danielsen, Swintha & Katja Hannß. 2010. Working with dying languages: Two Bolivian cases in comparison. In: Mark Häberlein & Alexander Keese (eds), Sprachgrenzen − Sprachkontakte − kulturelle Vermittler: Kommunikation zwischen Europäern und Außereuropäern (16.−20. Jahrhundert). Geschichte − Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte, 97. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 379−407.

Danielsen, Swintha & Tania Granadillo. 2008. Agreement in two Arawak languages: Baure and Kurripako. In: Søren Wichmann & Mark Donohue (eds), The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 396-411.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238385.003.0016

• Language typology
• Historical linguistics
• Comparative linguistics
• Language description
• Amazonian languages
• Cognitive linguistics