Melissa Axelrod |
Professor and Regents Lecturer Department of Linguistics |
Humanities Bldg., Rm.556 Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196
Phone:
505/277-6353 Fax:505/277-6355 |
My primary research areas are 1) morphosyntax and semantics
in polysynthetic languages, and 2) language preservation and recovery in Native
American language communities. I have been working on language revitalization
efforts in the Southwest since coming to UNM in 1995, and have consulted on
projects with the Plains and Jicarilla Apache communities, and with the Sandia
Tiwa, Nanbé Tewa, and Tesuque Tewa Pueblos. I have been involved in projects
with the Jicarilla Apache community since 1996, in particular, as PI of the
NSF-funded Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache project. The Dictionary will be available from UNM Press in
October of 2006. I am currently working with language program leaders at Nanbé
Pueblo on an NSF-funded electronic archive of Nanbé Tewa narratives,
conversations, and history, as well as a curriculum and materials project. I am
also working with Dr. Jule Gómez de García, of the California State University,
San Marcos, and Maria Luz García, from the University of Texas at Austin, on a
documentation project for Ixil Mayan, also funded by the NSF. |