UT Arlington linguist wins NSF grant to breathe new life into endangered Native American languages (fwd link)

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25 May, 2011 21:45 CET

UT Arlington linguist wins NSF grant to breathe new life into
endangered Native American languages
USA

ARLINGTON - A University of Texas at Arlington linguist is working to
save disappearing languages in Native American communities in Oklahoma
– a state with the highest Native language diversity in the United
States, but very little documentation.

Colleen Fitzgerald, associate professor and chairperson of UT
Arlington's Department of Linguistics and TESOL, has won a $48,000
National Science Foundation grant along with Mary Linn, an
anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma and curator of Native
American language at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

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