Nora England

Nora Clearman England (born November 8, 1946) is an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.[1]

This article is about the academic. For the artist, see Nora England (artist).
Nora England
BornNovember 8, 1946
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D. from the University of Florida
OccupationAmerican linguist, Mayanist, Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Known forShe is founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA).

England graduated from the University of Florida with a Ph.D. She taught at the University of Iowa. She led a workshop, and field visit to Iximche, attended by Linda Schele and Nicholai Grube.[2] She is founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA).[3]

Her research is on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary Mayan language politics.[4]

Awards

Works
  • "Issues in comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives'", Preferred argument structure: grammar as architecture for function, Editors John W. Du Bois, Lorraine Edith Kumpf, William J. Ashby, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003, ISBN 978-90-272-2624-2
  • "Mayan efforts toward language preservation", Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Editors Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-59712-8
  • "Control and Complementation at Kusaal", Current approaches to African linguistics, Volume 4, Editor David Odden, Walter de Gruyter, 1987, ISBN 978-90-6765-312-1
  • A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language, University of Texas Press, 1983, ISBN 9780292727267
  • "Space as a Mam Grammatical Theme", Papers in Mayan linguistics, Editor Nora C. England, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978, ISBN 978-0-913134-87-0

References
  1. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/linguistics/faculty/nce1946
  2. The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
  3. http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/301?htmlOnce=yes
  4. "Nora England | The Mesoamerica Center | The University of Texas at Austin". utmesoamerica.org. Retrieved April 12, 2019.

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