Marianne Mithun

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Professor
Marianne Mithun
Born1946
OccupationProfessor of Linguistics
Awards2021 Neil and Saras Smith Medal
2018 Wilbur Cross Medal
Academic background
Education1974
PhD Yale University, Linguistics
1972(M.Phil)Yale
1972(MA.
) Yale
1969 BA., Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa, French
ThesisA Grammar of Tuscarora (1974)
Doctoral advisorFloyd Lounsbury
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineMorphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; language documentation; American Indian linguistics; Austronesian linguistics
Notable worksMithun, Marianne (1999). The languages of native North America.
Websitehttps://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/marianne-mithun

Marianne Mithun

language typology. She is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
, where she has held an academic position since 1986.

Career

She began her career with extensive fieldwork on

Austronesian language Kapampangan
.

Mithun compiled a comprehensive overview of Native American languages in The Languages of Native North America.

polysynthesis), and secondly by family.[5]

Mithun and her husband, linguist Wallace Chafe, established and directed The Wallace Chafe and Marianne Mithun Fund for Research on Understudied Languages.[6] The fund provides support for graduate students to cover expenses associated with language documentation projects for understudied languages.

Awards and honors

Mithun was the founding president of the

Society for Linguistic Anthropology from 1983 to 1985.[7] From 1999 to 2003 she was president of the Association for Linguistic Typology.[8] From 2014 to 2015 she was president of The Societas Linguistica Europaea.[9] She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[10]

In 2002 The Languages of Native North America won the

Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[12] In 2019, Mithun served as the vice president/president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA),[13] and in 2020 she served as the 95th President of the LSA.[14]

In 2021, she was awarded the

Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy "for her research into Native American and Austronesian languages which represent a significant contribution to theoretical linguistics".[15]

Mithun has taught at many institutions around the world, including

UIUC, UNM, Wake Forest, and Yale.[16]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Ph.D. Alumni | Linguistics". ling.yale.edu. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  2. ^ Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L.; Hintz, Diane M.; Jany, Carmen (2016). Language Contact and Change in the Americas : Studies in Honor of Marianne Mithun. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. vii.
  3. ^ "Marianne Mithun Google Scholar citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  4. ISBN 0-521-23228-7
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  5. ^ "LINGUIST List 12.707: Mithun, Languages of Native North America". 14 March 2001. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  6. ^ "Wallace Chafe and Marianne Mithun Fund". giving.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  7. ^ "Officers". Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  8. ^ "www.linguistic-typology.org: List of officers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  9. ^ "The Societas Linguistica Europaea". www.societaslinguistica.eu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  10. ^ "Gruppe 5: Filologi og språkvitenskap" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  11. ^ Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders, retrieved September 25, 2017.
  12. ^ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  13. ^ "Three Elected to LSA Executive Committee | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  14. ^ "Past Executive Committees | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  15. ^ "Leading slavery scholar wins prestigious British Academy prize for contributions to humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  16. ^ "Marianne Mithun: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-10-13.

External links

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