Ellavina Perkins Explained

Ellavina Tsosie Perkins (born 1940) is an independent linguist and scholar of the Navajo language.

She was a student of the late MIT linguistics professor Ken Hale.^[1] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona; her dissertation dealt with word order and lexical scope in Navajo.^[2]

Perkins is on the board of directors of the Navajo Language Academy,^[3] under the auspices of which she is currently collaborating with Theodore B. Fernald on the Navajo Grammar Project, which aims to produce a reference grammar of the Navajo Language.^[4] The project received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Navajo Language Academy . 2022-03-07 . www.swarthmore.edu.
2. Ellavina Tsosie . Perkins . The Role of Word Order and Scope in the Interpretation of Navajo Sentences . University of Arizona . 1978.
3. Web site: nla_gen . 2022-03-07 . www.swarthmore.edu.
4. Web site: Navajo Reference Grammar . web page . 2009-05-28.
5. Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities: FY 2008 Grant Obligations . National Humanities Alliance . 2008 . 2009-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716070128/http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/fy08neharizona.pdf . 2011-07-16 . dead .