Monica Macaulay

Monica Macaulay is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also affiliated with the American Indian Studies Program. She has worked on documenting various indigenous languages of North America, especially Menominee and Potawatomi.

Macaulay is currently the president of the Endangered Language Fund,[1] as well as the co-editor of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference. She has also written a grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec and a survival skills manual for graduate students in linguistics. Since 1996, she has been the project director for the Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA), a project of the Linguistic Society of America.[2] Macaulay received her PhD in 1987 for her research on morphology and cliticization in Chalcatongo Mixtec at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

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References

  1. "Endangered Language Fund: Board of Directors". Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  2. "History of WILMA". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  3. "Monica Macaulay (CV)". Retrieved January 22, 2015.

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