Interests

Linguistic description, language politics, language ideologies, Mayan descriptive and comparative linguistics, American languages

Education

Bryn Mawr College, B.A. in anthropology, 1967
University of Florida, M.A. in linguistic anthropology, 1971
University of Florida, Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology, 1975

Recent Courses

LIN 306 Introduction to the Study of Language
LIN 350 Indigenous Languages of the Americas
LIN 350 How to Describe a Language

LIN 392 Tools for Linguistic Description
LIN 384 Structure of Mayan Languages
LIN 392 Reading and Writing Grammars

Honors

MacArthur Fellow 1993-1998

Projects

Documentation of Mayan Languages, with the Association Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’, Guatemala

Selected Publications

England, Nora C. 1983. A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language. Austin: University of Texas Press.

England, Nora C. 1983. Ergativity in Mamean (Mayan) languages. IJAL 49:1-19.

England, Nora C. 1987. Variation in Mayan narrative. Anthropological Linguistics, Winter 1987:522-532.

England, Nora C. 1988. Introducción a la lingüística: Idiomas Mayas. Guatemala City: PLFM and Cholsamaj. (reprinted 1992, 2nd edition 1996, reprinted 1999).

England, Nora C. 1988. Mam voice. In Typological Studies in Language, 16: Passive and Voice, ed. M. Shibatani. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 525-545.

England, Nora C. 1989. Comparing Mam (Mayan) clause structures: subordinate vs. main clauses. IJAL 55, 3:283-308.

England, Nora C. and Stephen R. Elliott, eds. 1990. Lecturas sobre la lingüística Maya. Antigua Guatemala: CIRMA.

England, Nora C. 1990. El mam: semejanzas y diferencias regionales. In Lecturas sobre la lingüística Maya, ed. Nora C. England and Stephen R. Elliott, 221-252. Antigua Guatemala: CIRMA.

England, Nora C. 1991. Changes in basic word order in Mayan languages. IJAL 57:446-486.

England, Nora C. 1992. Autonomía de los idiomas mayas: Historia e identidad. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj. (2nd edition 1994)

England, Nora C. 1992. Endangered languages: doing Mayan linguistics in Guatemala. Language 68:29-35.

England, Nora C. 1995. Linguistics and indigenous American languages: Mayan examples. Journal of Latin American Anthropology, vol. 1:122-149.

England, Nora C. 1996 The role of language standardization in revitalization. In Mayan Cultural Activism in Guatemala, ed. R. McKenna Brown and Edward K. Fischer, 178-194. Austin, University of Texas Press.

England, Nora C. 1997 Topicalización, enfoque y énfasis. Cultura de Guatemala, año XVIII, vol. II, 273-288. Guatemala City: Universidad Rafael Landívar.

England, Nora C. 1998. Mayan efforts toward language preservation. In Endangered Languages, eds. Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whaley, 99-116. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.

England, Nora C. 2001. Introducción a la Gramática de los Idiomas Mayas. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj.

England, Nora C. 2003. Maya linguists, linguistics, and the politics of identity. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society - Austin, April 12-14, 2002. Texas Linguistics Society 45: 33-45.

England, Nora C. and Laura Martin. 2003. Issues in the comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives. In Preferred Argument Structure: Grammars as architecture for function, eds. John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf, and William J. Ashby, 131-157. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

England, Nora C. 2003 Mayan language revival and revitalization politics: linguists and linguistic ideologies. American Anthropologist, Vol. 105, No. 4: 733-743.

England, Nora C. 2004 Adjectives in Mam. In Adjective classes: a cross-linguistic typology, eds. R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, 125-146. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Contact Info

Department of Linguistics
The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin, TX 78712-0198

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