Luca Ciucci is Adjunct Research Fellow in Linguistics at James Cook University (Australia). Since 2009 he has been doing fieldwork on Ayoreo (Bolivia, Paraguay), Chamacoco (Paraguay), and Chiquitano (Bolivia). His Ph.D. thesis (Pisa, 2013) concerned the inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages of Bolivia and Paraguay. He combines the documentation of endangered languages with the study of their historical sources to better understand the related cultural and linguistic changes. He is Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Studies / Collegium de Lyon for the academic year 2023/2024.