Professor Marianne Mithun | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Occupation | Professor of Linguistics |
| Awards | 2021 Neil and Saras Smith Medal 2018 Wilbur Cross Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Education | 1974 PhD Yale University, Linguistics 1972(M.Phil)Yale 1972(MA.) Yale 1969 BA., Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa, French |
| Thesis | A Grammar of Tuscarora (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Floyd Lounsbury |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; language documentation; American Indian linguistics; Austronesian linguistics |
| Notable works | Mithun, Marianne (1999). The languages of native North America. |
| Website | https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/marianne-mithun |
Marianne Mithun /mɪˈθuːn/is an American linguist specializing in American Indian languages and language typology. She is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has held an academic position since 1986.