Publications and manuscripts
In preparation
Hansen, Magnus Pharao and Carolyn O'Meara. Submitted. Nahuatl and the Spatial Grammar of Mesoamerican Languages. In Magnus Pharao Hansen (Ed), Nahuatl Space. John Benjamins.
Delgado, Amanda, Gabriela Pérez Báez and Carolyn O’Meara. Accepted. Localización: construcciones locativas, predicados de postura y posición. In Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada(Eds.), Morfosintaxis una mirada desde las Américas. Language Science Press (Textbooks in Language Sciences Series).
Submitted. Frames of reference in language and cognition: Linguistic and nonlinguistic factors. (With E. Benedicto, A. Capistrán Garza, K. T. Donelson, A. Eggleston, N. Hernández Green, M. Hernández Gómez, J. Bohnemeyer, J. S. Lovegren, E. Palancar, G. Pérez Báez, G. Polian, R. Romero Méndez, and R. E. Tucker.)
O’Meara, Carolyn (compiler). ¿He zó hai ya? [Which wind am I?]. (Book of riddles for the winds that blow in the Seri territory)
2025
O’Meara, Carolyn, Pérez Báez, Gabriela, Eggleston, Alyson and Bohnemeyer, Jürgen. Space in languages in Mexico and Central America. In The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Søren Wichmann, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 61-96. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421705-004
2024
O'Meara, Carolyn, Stephen A. Marlett & Cathy Moser Marlett. Language education challenges in and outside of the classroom: A case study in rural Sonora. In M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo (Ed.), Transnational Approaches to Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education. Routledge. Pp. 159-178.
Emilsson E., Muchembled F., Santos T., Miranda O., & O’Meara C. Digital Literacy and Language Maintenance: The Case of the Seri language (Mexico). Communications. Media. Design, 9(1), 58-74. Retrieved from https://cmd-journal.hse.ru/article/view/20947
Review of Words from Another World: A Collection of Analyzed Seri Texts. By Stephen A. Marlett. Oaxaca: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 2022. Pp. 582. US$35.00 (cloth or e-book). International Journal of American Linguistics 90)2: 269-270. https://doi.org/10.1086/728636
2022
Jérémy Pasquereau, Matthew Baerman, Carolyn O’Meara. Distributivity in Seri verbs and nouns as cross-categorial pluractionality. In Ozge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu and Peyton Deal (Eds), NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 3. Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Student Association at University of Massachusetts. Pp. 11-24. (link to purchase Volume 3)
Artin Arshamian, Richard C. Gerkin, Nicole Kruspe, Ewelina Wnuk, Simeon Floyd, Carolyn O’Meara, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Johan N. Lundström, Joel D. Mainland, Asifa Majid. Preprint. The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.062
O'Meara, Carolyn, Jérémy Pasquereau and Debora Perales Morales. Evaluación preliminar de la vitalidad de la lengua cmiique iitom (seri). Verbum Et Lingua 19.
2021
O’Meara, Carolyn. Clasificación del paisaje y referencia espacial en cmiique iitom (seri). Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM.
Artin Arshamian, Tina Sundelin, Ewelina Wnuk, Carolyn O'Meara, Niclas Burenhult, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Mats Lekander, Mats J. Olsson, Julie Lasselin, John Axelsson and Asifa Majid. Human sickness detection is not dependent on cultural experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1954): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0922
O'Meara, Carolyn and Martina Henzi. Mapeo de los nombres de lugares con los comcaac (seri). In Guerrero, Lilian and Francisco Arellanes Arellanes (Eds.), Estudios lingüísticos y filológicos en lenguas indígenas mexicanas. Celebración por los 30 años del Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas. México: UNAM-IIFL. Pp. 525-558.
2020
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. Anger stinks in Seri: Olfactory metaphor in a lesser-described language. Cognitive Linguistics 31(3): 367-391.
O'Meara, Carolyn, Niclas Burenhult, Mikael Rothstein and Peter Sercombe. Representing space and place: hunter-gatherer perspectives. Hunter Gatherer Research 4(3): 287-309.
Pharao Hansen, Magnus and Carolyn O'Meara. Environmental adaptation in language: Spatial grammar, landscape knowledge and human survival. Language Dynamics and Change 10(2): 230-258.
van Putten, Saskia, Carolyn O’Meara, Flurina Wartmann, Joanne Yager, Julia Villette, Claudia Mazzuca, Claudia Bieling, Niclas Burenhult, Ross Purves, Asifa Majid. Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239858. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239858.
2019
O'Meara, Carolyn, Susan Smythe Kung, Asifa Majid. The Challenge of Olfactory Ideophones: Reconsidering Ineffability from the Totonac-Tepehua Perspective. International Journal of American Linguistics 85(2): 173-212.
Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (Eds.). Perception Metaphors. John Benjamins.
O'Meara, Carolyn, Laura J. Speed, Lila San Roque, Asifa Majid. Perception metaphors: A view from diversity. In Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (Eds.), Perception Metaphors. John Benjamins. Pp. 1-16.
Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia, Jerémy Pasquereau & Carolyn O’Meara. Event plurality in Seri. In Kimberly Johnson and Alexander Göbel (Eds.) SULA 10: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas.
Morales, Jesús, Xavier Moreno Herrera & Carolyn O'Meara. Una historia acerca de Slootxöla. Tlalocan XXIV: 325-361.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Gabriela Pérez Báez. Locationals and Spatial Orientation. In Daniel Siddiqi, Michael Barrie, Jessica Coon, Carrie Gillon, Jason Haugen, Eric Mathieu (eds.) Routledge Handbook of North American Languages. Routledge. Pp. 149-166.
2017
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. El léxico olfativo en la lengua seri. In Ana Lidia M. Domínguez Ruiz and Antonio Zirión Pérez (Eds.) La Dimensión Sensorial de la Cultura: Diez contribuciones al estudio de los sentidos en México. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Pp. 101-118.
2016
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. How changing lifestyles impact Seri smellscapes and smell language. Anthropological Linguistics. 58(2): 107-131.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Octavio Alonso González Guadarrama. Accessibility to results and primary data of research on indigenous languages of Mexico. In Gabriela Pérez Báez, Chris Rogers and Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (eds.) Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 59-80.
Wilder, Benjamin T., Carolyn O'Meara, Laurie Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan. The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity. BioScience 66(6): 499-509.
Wilder, Benjamin T., Carolyn O'Meara, Laurie Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan. Ethnoscience, the "oldest science": A needed complement to academic science and citizen science to stem the losses of biodiversity, indigenous languages, and livelihoods. In Gary Paul Nabhan (ed.) Ethnobiology for the future: Linking cultural and ecological diversity. Tucson: AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 23-35.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Physical and linguistic marking of the landscape - Are they connected? In William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon (eds.) Marking the Land. Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 133-151.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Review of Saúl Santos García (Coord.). Estudios de la vitalidad lingüística en El Gran Nayar. Tepic: Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, 2014. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada año 34, número 64: 257–260.
2015
O’Meara, Carolyn (compiler). Comcaac coi ziix quih iti cöipactoj xah, ziix quih ocoaaj xah Hai quih pti immistaj coi iicp hac. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. (Compilation of texts in the Seri language with an introduction in Spanish)
Wilder, Benjamin T. and Carolyn O'Meara. The continuum of desert research. Journal of the Southwest Volume 57, Numbers 2 and 3: 163-186.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Lilián Guerrero. A typological comparison of Seri with nearby Southern Uto-Aztecan languages: The use of posture verbs in locative constructions. Amerindia 37(2): 285-312.
Martínez, Isabel and Carolyn O'Meara. Baskets of the Comcaac. Weaving memory and the future. Voices of Mexico: The Splendor of Mexico 100: 74-79.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Review of "Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World" by Cathy Moser Marlett. Journal of Anthropological Research 71: 434-435.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Partes de objetos en seri: Forma contra función. In Isabel Barreras Aguilar and Gerardo López Cruz (eds.) Investigaciones (Inter)disciplinarias en Lingüística. Estudios Lingüísticos 6. Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora. pp. 51-74.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Benjamin T. Wilder (eds.). 2015. Seeds in the Sand: The Next Generation of Approaches to Understanding the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California. Journal of the Southwest. Volume 57, Numbers 2 and 3.
Bohnemeyer, J., K. T. Donelson, R. E. Moore, E. Benedicto, A. Capistrán Garza, A. Eggleston, N. Hernández Green, M. S. Hernández Gómez, S. Herrera Castro, C. K. O'Meara, G. Pérez Báez, E. Palancar, G. Polian, and R. Romero Méndez. The contact diffusion of linguistic practices: Reference frames in Mesoamerica. Language Dynamics and Change 5(2):169-201. (preprint)
2014
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2014. Verbos de movimiento en seri y la expresión de trayectoria. In Lilián Guerrero (ed.), Verbos de movimiento en lenguas de América: Léxico, sintaxis y pragmática. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. pp. 207-236. (preprint)
Bohnemeyer, Juergen, Jesse Lovegren, Katharine T. Donelson, Elena Benedicto, Alyson Eggleston, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Néstor Hernández Green, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Carolyn O'Meara, Enrique Palancar, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Mendez. 2014. The Cultural Transmission of Spatial Cognition: Evidence from a Large-scale Study. In the Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, pp. 212-217.
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2014. Entre lugares, estrellas y vientos: Descripciones de rutas y narraciones del paisaje en seri. In Mariana Masera (ed.), Mapas del cielo y de la tierra. Espacio y territorio en la palabra oral. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM, pp. 251-274. (preprint)
2013
Wilder, Benjamin, Carolyn O'Meara, Nemer Narchi, Alfonso Medel Narváez, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza. 2013. Bridging a Divided Landscape: The Need For a Next Generation of Sonoran Desert Researchers. Conservation Biology 27(2): 243-245.
2012
O'Meara, Carolyn, Francisco Morales Herrera, Alma Imelda Morales Romero y René Montaño Herrera. 2012. Donde fue tirado el pantalón y cómo se llega a esta bahía. Tlalocan XVIII: 125-140. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. (preprint)
Bohnemeyer, Juergen and O'Meara, Carolyn. 2012. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec. In Luna Filipović and Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Eds.) Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture and cognition. John Benjamins. pp. 217-249. (preprint)
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Elena Benedicto, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Katharine T. Donelson, Alyson Eggleston, Néstor Hernández Green, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Jesse S. Lovegren, Carolyn K. O'Meara, Enrique Palancar, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Méndez, and Randi E. Tucker. 2012. Marcos de referencia en lenguas mesoamericanas: un análisis multivariante tipológico. Proceedings of the Conferencie on Indigenous Languages of Latin America V. (pdf)
Roland, Douglas, Mauner, Gail, O'Meara, Carolyn, Yun, Hongoak. 2012. Discourse expectations and relative clause processing. Journal of Memory and Language 66(3): 479-508. doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.12.004
Turk, Andrew, Mark, David M., Stea, David, O'Meara, Carolyn. 2012. Geography – Understanding how to identify landforms, other landscape features and their uses. In Thieberger, N. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press. pp. 368-391.
2011
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. Review of Muerte y vitalidad de las lenguas indígenas y las presiones sobre sus hablantes. Roland Terborg and Laura Landa (coords.). Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, Número 54, pp. 197-206.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Bohnemeyer, Juergen. 2011. Mass-count coercion with the Universal Sculptor in Seri. Proceedings for the 16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Americas. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. The locative definite article hac in Seri. In Munguía Duarte, Ana Lidia (ed.) Fonología, morfología y tipología semántico-sintáctica. Estudios Lingüísticos 1. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: Editorial Universidad de Sonora. pp. 195-211. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. Frames of reference in Seri. Language Sciences 33 (6): 1025-1046. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn, Pérez Báez, Gabriela. 2011. Spatial frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages. Language Sciences 33 (6): 837-852. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn and Gabriela Pérez Báez (eds.). 2011. Frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages. Language Sciences 33.
2010
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2010. Seri landscape classification and spatial reference. Unpublished PhD dissertation. University at Buffalo, SUNY. (pdf)
O'Meara, Carolyn and Good, Jeff. 2010. Ethical issues in legacy language resources. Language and Communication 30, pp. 162-170. (preprint)
2008
O'Meara, Carolyn and Bohnemeyer, Juergen. 2008. Complex landscape terms in Seri. Language Sciences 30:2-3, pp. 316-339. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2008. Basic locative construction in Seri. IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, México. Tomo 2, 253-267. (preprint)
In preparation
Hansen, Magnus Pharao and Carolyn O'Meara. Submitted. Nahuatl and the Spatial Grammar of Mesoamerican Languages. In Magnus Pharao Hansen (Ed), Nahuatl Space. John Benjamins.
Delgado, Amanda, Gabriela Pérez Báez and Carolyn O’Meara. Accepted. Localización: construcciones locativas, predicados de postura y posición. In Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada(Eds.), Morfosintaxis una mirada desde las Américas. Language Science Press (Textbooks in Language Sciences Series).
Submitted. Frames of reference in language and cognition: Linguistic and nonlinguistic factors. (With E. Benedicto, A. Capistrán Garza, K. T. Donelson, A. Eggleston, N. Hernández Green, M. Hernández Gómez, J. Bohnemeyer, J. S. Lovegren, E. Palancar, G. Pérez Báez, G. Polian, R. Romero Méndez, and R. E. Tucker.)
O’Meara, Carolyn (compiler). ¿He zó hai ya? [Which wind am I?]. (Book of riddles for the winds that blow in the Seri territory)
2025
O’Meara, Carolyn, Pérez Báez, Gabriela, Eggleston, Alyson and Bohnemeyer, Jürgen. Space in languages in Mexico and Central America. In The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Søren Wichmann, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 61-96. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421705-004
2024
O'Meara, Carolyn, Stephen A. Marlett & Cathy Moser Marlett. Language education challenges in and outside of the classroom: A case study in rural Sonora. In M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo (Ed.), Transnational Approaches to Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education. Routledge. Pp. 159-178.
Emilsson E., Muchembled F., Santos T., Miranda O., & O’Meara C. Digital Literacy and Language Maintenance: The Case of the Seri language (Mexico). Communications. Media. Design, 9(1), 58-74. Retrieved from https://cmd-journal.hse.ru/article/view/20947
Review of Words from Another World: A Collection of Analyzed Seri Texts. By Stephen A. Marlett. Oaxaca: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 2022. Pp. 582. US$35.00 (cloth or e-book). International Journal of American Linguistics 90)2: 269-270. https://doi.org/10.1086/728636
2022
Jérémy Pasquereau, Matthew Baerman, Carolyn O’Meara. Distributivity in Seri verbs and nouns as cross-categorial pluractionality. In Ozge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu and Peyton Deal (Eds), NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 3. Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Student Association at University of Massachusetts. Pp. 11-24. (link to purchase Volume 3)
Artin Arshamian, Richard C. Gerkin, Nicole Kruspe, Ewelina Wnuk, Simeon Floyd, Carolyn O’Meara, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Johan N. Lundström, Joel D. Mainland, Asifa Majid. Preprint. The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.062
O'Meara, Carolyn, Jérémy Pasquereau and Debora Perales Morales. Evaluación preliminar de la vitalidad de la lengua cmiique iitom (seri). Verbum Et Lingua 19.
2021
O’Meara, Carolyn. Clasificación del paisaje y referencia espacial en cmiique iitom (seri). Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM.
Artin Arshamian, Tina Sundelin, Ewelina Wnuk, Carolyn O'Meara, Niclas Burenhult, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Mats Lekander, Mats J. Olsson, Julie Lasselin, John Axelsson and Asifa Majid. Human sickness detection is not dependent on cultural experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1954): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0922
O'Meara, Carolyn and Martina Henzi. Mapeo de los nombres de lugares con los comcaac (seri). In Guerrero, Lilian and Francisco Arellanes Arellanes (Eds.), Estudios lingüísticos y filológicos en lenguas indígenas mexicanas. Celebración por los 30 años del Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas. México: UNAM-IIFL. Pp. 525-558.
2020
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. Anger stinks in Seri: Olfactory metaphor in a lesser-described language. Cognitive Linguistics 31(3): 367-391.
O'Meara, Carolyn, Niclas Burenhult, Mikael Rothstein and Peter Sercombe. Representing space and place: hunter-gatherer perspectives. Hunter Gatherer Research 4(3): 287-309.
Pharao Hansen, Magnus and Carolyn O'Meara. Environmental adaptation in language: Spatial grammar, landscape knowledge and human survival. Language Dynamics and Change 10(2): 230-258.
van Putten, Saskia, Carolyn O’Meara, Flurina Wartmann, Joanne Yager, Julia Villette, Claudia Mazzuca, Claudia Bieling, Niclas Burenhult, Ross Purves, Asifa Majid. Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239858. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239858.
2019
O'Meara, Carolyn, Susan Smythe Kung, Asifa Majid. The Challenge of Olfactory Ideophones: Reconsidering Ineffability from the Totonac-Tepehua Perspective. International Journal of American Linguistics 85(2): 173-212.
Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (Eds.). Perception Metaphors. John Benjamins.
O'Meara, Carolyn, Laura J. Speed, Lila San Roque, Asifa Majid. Perception metaphors: A view from diversity. In Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (Eds.), Perception Metaphors. John Benjamins. Pp. 1-16.
Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia, Jerémy Pasquereau & Carolyn O’Meara. Event plurality in Seri. In Kimberly Johnson and Alexander Göbel (Eds.) SULA 10: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas.
Morales, Jesús, Xavier Moreno Herrera & Carolyn O'Meara. Una historia acerca de Slootxöla. Tlalocan XXIV: 325-361.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Gabriela Pérez Báez. Locationals and Spatial Orientation. In Daniel Siddiqi, Michael Barrie, Jessica Coon, Carrie Gillon, Jason Haugen, Eric Mathieu (eds.) Routledge Handbook of North American Languages. Routledge. Pp. 149-166.
2017
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. El léxico olfativo en la lengua seri. In Ana Lidia M. Domínguez Ruiz and Antonio Zirión Pérez (Eds.) La Dimensión Sensorial de la Cultura: Diez contribuciones al estudio de los sentidos en México. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Pp. 101-118.
2016
O'Meara, Carolyn and Asifa Majid. How changing lifestyles impact Seri smellscapes and smell language. Anthropological Linguistics. 58(2): 107-131.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Octavio Alonso González Guadarrama. Accessibility to results and primary data of research on indigenous languages of Mexico. In Gabriela Pérez Báez, Chris Rogers and Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (eds.) Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 59-80.
Wilder, Benjamin T., Carolyn O'Meara, Laurie Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan. The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity. BioScience 66(6): 499-509.
Wilder, Benjamin T., Carolyn O'Meara, Laurie Monti and Gary Paul Nabhan. Ethnoscience, the "oldest science": A needed complement to academic science and citizen science to stem the losses of biodiversity, indigenous languages, and livelihoods. In Gary Paul Nabhan (ed.) Ethnobiology for the future: Linking cultural and ecological diversity. Tucson: AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 23-35.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Physical and linguistic marking of the landscape - Are they connected? In William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon (eds.) Marking the Land. Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 133-151.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Review of Saúl Santos García (Coord.). Estudios de la vitalidad lingüística en El Gran Nayar. Tepic: Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, 2014. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada año 34, número 64: 257–260.
2015
O’Meara, Carolyn (compiler). Comcaac coi ziix quih iti cöipactoj xah, ziix quih ocoaaj xah Hai quih pti immistaj coi iicp hac. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. (Compilation of texts in the Seri language with an introduction in Spanish)
Wilder, Benjamin T. and Carolyn O'Meara. The continuum of desert research. Journal of the Southwest Volume 57, Numbers 2 and 3: 163-186.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Lilián Guerrero. A typological comparison of Seri with nearby Southern Uto-Aztecan languages: The use of posture verbs in locative constructions. Amerindia 37(2): 285-312.
Martínez, Isabel and Carolyn O'Meara. Baskets of the Comcaac. Weaving memory and the future. Voices of Mexico: The Splendor of Mexico 100: 74-79.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Review of "Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World" by Cathy Moser Marlett. Journal of Anthropological Research 71: 434-435.
O'Meara, Carolyn. Partes de objetos en seri: Forma contra función. In Isabel Barreras Aguilar and Gerardo López Cruz (eds.) Investigaciones (Inter)disciplinarias en Lingüística. Estudios Lingüísticos 6. Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora. pp. 51-74.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Benjamin T. Wilder (eds.). 2015. Seeds in the Sand: The Next Generation of Approaches to Understanding the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California. Journal of the Southwest. Volume 57, Numbers 2 and 3.
Bohnemeyer, J., K. T. Donelson, R. E. Moore, E. Benedicto, A. Capistrán Garza, A. Eggleston, N. Hernández Green, M. S. Hernández Gómez, S. Herrera Castro, C. K. O'Meara, G. Pérez Báez, E. Palancar, G. Polian, and R. Romero Méndez. The contact diffusion of linguistic practices: Reference frames in Mesoamerica. Language Dynamics and Change 5(2):169-201. (preprint)
2014
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2014. Verbos de movimiento en seri y la expresión de trayectoria. In Lilián Guerrero (ed.), Verbos de movimiento en lenguas de América: Léxico, sintaxis y pragmática. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. pp. 207-236. (preprint)
Bohnemeyer, Juergen, Jesse Lovegren, Katharine T. Donelson, Elena Benedicto, Alyson Eggleston, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Néstor Hernández Green, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Carolyn O'Meara, Enrique Palancar, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Mendez. 2014. The Cultural Transmission of Spatial Cognition: Evidence from a Large-scale Study. In the Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, pp. 212-217.
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2014. Entre lugares, estrellas y vientos: Descripciones de rutas y narraciones del paisaje en seri. In Mariana Masera (ed.), Mapas del cielo y de la tierra. Espacio y territorio en la palabra oral. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM, pp. 251-274. (preprint)
2013
Wilder, Benjamin, Carolyn O'Meara, Nemer Narchi, Alfonso Medel Narváez, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza. 2013. Bridging a Divided Landscape: The Need For a Next Generation of Sonoran Desert Researchers. Conservation Biology 27(2): 243-245.
2012
O'Meara, Carolyn, Francisco Morales Herrera, Alma Imelda Morales Romero y René Montaño Herrera. 2012. Donde fue tirado el pantalón y cómo se llega a esta bahía. Tlalocan XVIII: 125-140. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM. (preprint)
Bohnemeyer, Juergen and O'Meara, Carolyn. 2012. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec. In Luna Filipović and Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Eds.) Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture and cognition. John Benjamins. pp. 217-249. (preprint)
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Elena Benedicto, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Katharine T. Donelson, Alyson Eggleston, Néstor Hernández Green, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Jesse S. Lovegren, Carolyn K. O'Meara, Enrique Palancar, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Méndez, and Randi E. Tucker. 2012. Marcos de referencia en lenguas mesoamericanas: un análisis multivariante tipológico. Proceedings of the Conferencie on Indigenous Languages of Latin America V. (pdf)
Roland, Douglas, Mauner, Gail, O'Meara, Carolyn, Yun, Hongoak. 2012. Discourse expectations and relative clause processing. Journal of Memory and Language 66(3): 479-508. doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.12.004
Turk, Andrew, Mark, David M., Stea, David, O'Meara, Carolyn. 2012. Geography – Understanding how to identify landforms, other landscape features and their uses. In Thieberger, N. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press. pp. 368-391.
2011
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. Review of Muerte y vitalidad de las lenguas indígenas y las presiones sobre sus hablantes. Roland Terborg and Laura Landa (coords.). Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, Número 54, pp. 197-206.
O'Meara, Carolyn and Bohnemeyer, Juergen. 2011. Mass-count coercion with the Universal Sculptor in Seri. Proceedings for the 16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Americas. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. The locative definite article hac in Seri. In Munguía Duarte, Ana Lidia (ed.) Fonología, morfología y tipología semántico-sintáctica. Estudios Lingüísticos 1. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: Editorial Universidad de Sonora. pp. 195-211. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2011. Frames of reference in Seri. Language Sciences 33 (6): 1025-1046. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn, Pérez Báez, Gabriela. 2011. Spatial frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages. Language Sciences 33 (6): 837-852. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn and Gabriela Pérez Báez (eds.). 2011. Frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages. Language Sciences 33.
2010
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2010. Seri landscape classification and spatial reference. Unpublished PhD dissertation. University at Buffalo, SUNY. (pdf)
O'Meara, Carolyn and Good, Jeff. 2010. Ethical issues in legacy language resources. Language and Communication 30, pp. 162-170. (preprint)
2008
O'Meara, Carolyn and Bohnemeyer, Juergen. 2008. Complex landscape terms in Seri. Language Sciences 30:2-3, pp. 316-339. (preprint)
O'Meara, Carolyn. 2008. Basic locative construction in Seri. IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, México. Tomo 2, 253-267. (preprint)
