Nora England Explained

Nora Clearman England
Birth Date:	8 November 1946
Website:	UT Faculty Page
Nationality:	American
Discipline:	Linguistics
Sub Discipline:	Language documentation, linguistic typology, Mayan languages, language politics, language ideology
Thesis Title:	Mam Grammar in Outline
Thesis Url:	https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00097526/00001/images
Thesis Year:	1975
Doctoral Advisor:	Martha James Hardman
Awards:	MacArthur Fellow, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities
Known For:	Founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA)

Nora Clearman England (November 8, 1946 – January 26, 2022) was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary Mayan language politics.^{[2] [3]}

Education and career

England graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1967 and the University of Florida in 1975 with an M.A. and a Ph.D.^[4] While there, she led a workshop and field visit to Iximche, attended by Linda Schele and Nicholai Grube.^[5]

After taking a post as a linguistics professor at the University of Texas in Austin in 2001, she became the founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA).^{[6] [7]} The University of Texas hosts England's Mayan Language Collection at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.^[8]

England's previous experiences include teaching positions at Mississippi State University and the University of Iowa, and training more than 100 Mayanists who have since gone on to work in various fields and are part of the first Maya generation able to receive substantial postsecondary education.^[4]

England died on January 26, 2022, at the age of 75.^[9]

Awards and honors

• 1993–1998 MacArthur Fellows Program^[10]
• In 2017, England was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.^[11]

Works

• "Issues in comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives'", Preferred argument structure: grammar as architecture for function, Editors John W. Du Bois, Lorraine Edith Kumpf, William J. Ashby, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003,
• "Mayan efforts toward language preservation", Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Editors Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Cambridge University Press, 1998,
• "Control and Complementation at Kusaal", Current approaches to African linguistics, Volume 4, Editor David Odden, Walter de Gruyter, 1987,
• A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language, University of Texas Press, 1983,
• "Space as a Mam Grammatical Theme", Papers in Mayan linguistics, Editor Nora C. England, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978,

Bibliography

• Book: England, Nora Clearman . 1975 . Mam Grammar in Outline . . Doctoral thesis/dissertation. Gainesville . . 3497675.

External links

• "Nora C. England", Scientific Commons

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile for Nora C. England at UT Austin. 19 May 2023.
2. Web site: Nora England The Mesoamerica Center The University of Texas at Austin. 2019-04-12. utmesoamerica.org.
3. Web site: Nora England. 2022-01-21. scholar.google.com.
4. Web site: Nora C. England. 2021-03-08. www.macfound.org. en.
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=QRxr0uuxw3kC&dq=Nora+England&pg=PA311 The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
6. Web site: Nora C. England. 19 May 2023. The University of Texas at Austin Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
7. Web site: Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university.
8. Web site: Mayan Languages Collection of Nora England The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. 2022-01-21. ailla.utexas.org.
9. AILLA_archive. 1487080572447035392. Words cannot express our sadness caused by the passing of our dear collaborator, teacher, and friend, Dr. Nora England, on January 26, 2022. She was a resolute advocate for Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala and beyond, and her legacy will live on for years to come..
10. Web site: Nora C. England. 2022-01-21. www.macfound.org. en.
11. Web site: Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year . 11 March 2022.