Scott DeLancey

Scott DeLancey
Born1949
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Main interestsSino-Tibetan languages, Penutian languages
Notable ideasMirative, creolization, Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Scott DeLancey (born 1949) is an American linguist from the University of Oregon. His work focuses on typology and historical linguistics of Tibeto-Burman languages as well as North American indigenous languages such as the Penutian family, particularly the Klamath. His research is known for its diversity of its thematic and theoretical reach.[1]

He is well known for having developed the concept of mirative,[2] for promoting the study of comparative Penutian[3] and for being a vocal proponent of the idea that a system of agreement should be reconstructed in proto-Tibeto-Burman.[4]

  1. ^ Linda Konnerth, 'Review', in Himalayan Linguistics, Vol.13, No.1 pp.94-99.
  2. ^ Scott DeLancey, t (1997). "Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information", in Linguistic Typology, 1997, 1: 33–52. doi:10.1515/lity.1997.1.1.33.
  3. ^ Scott DeLancey & Victor .Golla (1997). 'The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect,' in International Journal of American Linguistics, 63, 171–202
  4. ^ Scott DeLancey, 'Towards a history of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman.' Himalayan Linguistics Journal, 2010 Vol. 9, No.1, pp.1-39.