Marianne Mithun

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Marianne Mithun (1946-) is a leading scholar of American Indian languages and language typology. She began her career with extensive fieldwork on Iroquoian languages, especially Mohawk, Cayuga, and Tuscarora, but has done considerable work on the languages of North America in general, culminating in her magisterial book The Languages of Native North America. She has also worked in California on Central Pomo and the Chumashan languages, on Central Alaskan Yupik, and on Austronesian languages. She is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Mithun was the founding president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in 1983. In 2000 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo.

Mithun is married to linguist Wallace Chafe.

[edit] Bibliography

Mithun, Marianne (1999) The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7

[edit] External links

• http://www.uio.no/om_uio/aeresdoktor/2000/mithun.html
• http://www.uio.no/english/about_uio/honorary-doctors/2000/mithun.html
• http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/faculty.htm
• http://www.helsinki.fi/lehdet/uh/298j.html
• http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/sla.htm