Pamela Munro | |
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Born | May 23, 1947 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
Academic advisors | Margaret Langdon |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Native American languages |
Institutions | University of California,Los Angeles |
Pamela Munro (born May 23,1947 [1] ) is an American linguist who specializes in Native American languages. She is a distinguished research professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California,Los Angeles,where she has held a position since 1974. [2]
She earned her PhD in 1974 from the University of California,San Diego,where her graduate adviser was Margaret Langdon. [3] Her dissertation,titled Topics in Mojave Syntax, was published by Garland in 1976. [4]
Her research has concentrated on all aspects of the grammars of indigenous languages of the Americas,most recently focusing on the Chickasaw (Muskogean;Oklahoma),Garifuna (Arawakan;Central America),Imbabura Quichua (Quechuan;Ecuador),Tongva (Uto-Aztecan;Los Angeles Basin),and Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (Zapotecan;Central Oaxaca,Mexico) languages. She has published numerous articles and books, [5] and was instrumental in the creation of dictionaries for San Lucas QuiaviníZapotec, [6] Chickasaw and Wolof. She is also the compiler of a series of books on college slang,Slang U. [7]
Munro was named to be the Ken Hale Professor at the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute held at UC-Davis. [8]