Nora England

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

She 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]

Awards

• 1993 MacArthur Fellows Program

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 9789027226242
• "Mayan efforts toward language preservation", Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Editors Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521597128
• "Control and Complementation at Kusaal", Current approaches to African linguistics, Volume 4, Editor David Odden, Walter de Gruyter, 1987, ISBN 9789067653121
• A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language, University of Texas Press, 1983, ISBN 9780292727267
• "Space as a Mam Gramatical Theme", Papers in Mayan linguistics, Editor Nora C. England, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978, ISBN 9780913134870

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

Bibliography

England, Nora Clearman (1975) (digital reproduction at Internet Archive). Mam Grammar in Outline. Doctoral thesis/dissertation. Gainsville: University of Florida. OCLC 3497675. http://www.archive.org/details/mamgrammarinoutl00englrich. 

External links

• "Nora C. England", Scientific Commons
• Works by or about Nora England in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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