My name is Seth (Dani) Katenkamp (they/them), and I'm currently a PhD student in Linguistics at Yale! I'm originally from Central Florida, but now live most of the time in New Haven, CT. My main research focus is documenting the history of languages of the Southeastern US, with a particular focus on Choctaw, though I've also done work on Coushatta, Hitchiti/Mikasuki, Mvskoke/Creek, Timucua, Domari, and Tibetan.
There are materials for various Indigenous languages on here, and I'd like to state up front that I don't own any of them, and that they belong to the speech communities that produced them and their descendents. If you have concerns about how these materials are presented (or that they are presented here at all)- please reach out!
You can contact me at seth[dot]katenkamp[at]yale[dot]edu.
Katenkamp, Seth. (in press). “Lack of prestige in use of English borrowings in nineteenth century Choctaw society.” Native South, Vol. 16.
Henning, Doug and Seth Katenkamp. “The Corrections: Language Learning in Pareja’s 1614 Arte.” (in press). Landscapes and Languages. Ed. Timothy Johnson. The Academy of American Franciscan History.
Amber, Romany, and Seth Katenkamp. (2025). “Borrowings from Arabic into Domari: What happens when a concatenative language borrows from a templatic one?” Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Romani Linguistics. Vienna, Austria. 25 Sep 2025. [slides]
Katenkamp, Seth. (2025). “A formal treatment of tense and aspect in Mikasuki.” Invited talk at Cambridge SyntaxLab. Cambridge, UK. 18 Mar 2025.[handout]
Katenkamp, Seth and Romany Amber. (2025). “A reanalysis of clause-marking morphology in Choctaw.” Paper presented at Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. (online).
Katenkamp, Seth. (2024). “Determining the locus of phonological variation in Historical Choctaw.” Paper presented at Stonybrook-Yale-NYU-CUNY Linguistics Conference. New York, NY. [slides]
Katenkamp, Seth. (2024). “Subtractive Morphology in Choctaw.” Poster presented at the Workshop on Morphology at Princeton. Princeton, NJ.
Katenkamp, Seth. (2024). “A cross-linguistic survey of a class of derivational affixes in the Muskogean family.” Paper presented at Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. New York, NY.
Dubcovsky, Alejandra (chair), Shawn Austin, George Aaron Broadwell, Doug Henning, Seth Katenkamp. (2023). “Native Language Historical Documents.” Roundtable discussion at The American Society for Ethnohistory. Tallahassee, FL.
Henning, Doug, and Seth Katenkamp. (2023). “The Corrections: Pareja’s 1614 Arte.” Paper presented at Florida Franciscan Colloquium IV. St. Augustine, FL.
Katenkamp, Dani. (2023). “Observing and interpreting patterns of acculturation in Historical Choctaw neologisms.” Paper presented at Stonybrook-Yale-NYU-CUNY Linguistics Conference. New Haven, CT.
Katenkamp, Seth. (2023). “Supplementing Muskogean philology using the oldest Choctaw wordlist.” Paper presented at Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. (online)
Broadwell, George A., Frankie Bauer, Edward Green, Jamie Henton, Seth Katenkamp, Julie Reed, Christina Snyder, Michael Stoop, and Matthew Tyler. (2021). “The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History.” Paper presented at American Society for Ethnohistory Conference. Durham, NC (virtual conference).