David Beck, University of Alberta

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Linguistics Professor Edmonton, Alberta dbeck@ualberta.ca Office: (780) 492-0807

Bio/Research

My interests include fieldwork, typology, morphology, communicative/information structure, cognitive linguistics, and Native American languages, particularly Salishan and the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. I am currently working on a project funded by the SSHRC to document Upper Necaxa Totonac, a pr...

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Bio/Research

My interests include fieldwork, typology, morphology, communicative/information structure, cognitive linguistics, and Native American languages, particularly Salishan and the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. I am currently working on a project funded by the SSHRC to document Upper Necaxa Totonac, a previously undescribed language spoken in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State in Mexico. At present it has only around 3,400 speakers and is being learned with less and less frequency by children. Our aim is to produce a dictionary, grammatical sketch, and text collection in an effort to document and, hopefully, revitalize this seriously threatened language.



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