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 Quiaviní Zapotec,[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]