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
Born (1946-11-08) November 8, 1946
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Florida (Ph.D.)
Occupation
  • Linguist
  • Mayanist
  • professor
Known forFounding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA)

England graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1967 and the University of Florida in 1975 with an M.A. and a Ph.D.[2] She led a workshop, and field visit to Iximche, attended by Linda Schele and Nicholai Grube.[3]

England's previous experiences include teaching positions at Mississippi State University and University of Iowa, and training more than 100 Mayanists who have since gone on to work in various fields and are part of the first Mayan generation able to receive substantial postsecondary education. [2]

After taking up her current post as a linguistics professor at the University of Texas in Austin in 2001, she became the founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA). [4][5]

Her research is on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary Mayan language politics.[6]

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. "Profile for Nora C. England at UT Austin".
  2. "Nora C. England". www.macfound.org. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  3. The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
  4. "Nora C. England". The University of Texas at Austin Department of Linguistics. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  5. "Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university".
  6. "Nora England | The Mesoamerica Center | The University of Texas at Austin". utmesoamerica.org. Retrieved April 12, 2019.

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