Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker

Andrea Berez-Kroeker is a documentary linguist who works on Athabascan and Chimbu-Wahgi languages. She is an associate professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and is the director of the Kaipuleohone archive of endangered languages.[1] She was the president of DELAMAN from 2014-2016[2] and the senior co-chair of the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP) of the Linguistic Society of America.[3] She is an expert on the practices of reproducibility and management of data in the field of linguistics.

Language documentation

Berez-Kroeker's work has focused on the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. She has created language documentation materials for the Athabascan languages Ahtna and Dena'ina. Her work on Ahtna includes using GIS to investigate the lexicalization of directionals, a subcategory of deixis, in language.[4][5]

Her recent documentary work in Papua New Guinea includes documentation of Kuman as well as a video documentary of Kere, a language.[6]

She is the editor of books on language change,[7] linguistic fieldwork,[8] and a lexicon of Dena'ina.[9]

Linguistic data

Berez-Kroeker has given talks and workshops on reproducibility in the field of linguistics, including data sharing and citation.[10][11] She currently works to create infrastructure that promotes the long-term sustainability and interoperability of data. She is a principal investigator for a National Science Foundation grant studying the practices of data citation and attribution of data in the field of linguistics, including the creation and dissemination of resources on data use and sharing.[12]

Awards

Berez-Kroeker received the Early Career Award in 2019 from the Linguistic Society of America for her work on the documentation of endangered languages. In particular, the society recognized her for the "technological sophistication to her work, especially in the areas of language archiving, data processing, and visualization."[13]

References
  1. "Spoken Hawaiian language digital repository awarded grants". University of Hawaiʻi System News. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  2. "Board - DELAMAN". DELAMAN. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. "Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  4. "Language in Space – Geographic Perspectives on Language". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  5. Berez, Andrea L. (2015-12-01). "Directionals, episodic structure, and geographic information systems: Area/punctual distinctions in Ahtna travel narration". Linguistics Vanguard. 1 (1). doi:10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004. ISSN 2199-174X.
  6. "Plan to preserve language - The National". The National. 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  7. Language Contact and Change in the Americas. Studies in Language Companion Series. 173. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2016-04-19. doi:10.1075/slcs.173. ISBN 9789027267337.
  8. "LD&C SP02: Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas". 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  9. "Resource Details | Alaska Native Language Archive". Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  10. Detroit, Wayne State University; 2013, MI 48202 United States ©. "Reproducible Research in Linguistics, Past and Future: From Early American Anthropology to the Digital Age". Wayne State University - Events Calendar. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. Administrator, SFB (2017-07-13). "COOL linguists share their knowledge". Solomon Fresh Beat Online. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  12. "Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  13. "Award Winners Announced: Early Career Award, Kenneth L. Hale Award, & Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-12-17.


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