Ellavina Perkins

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]

References

1. "Navajo Language Academy". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
2. Perkins, Ellavina Tsosie (1978). "The Role of Word Order and Scope in the Interpretation of Navajo Sentences" (Document). University of Arizona.
3. "nla_gen". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
4. "Navajo Reference Grammar" (web page). Retrieved 2009-05-28.
5. "National Endowment for the Humanities: FY 2008 Grant Obligations" (PDF). National Humanities Alliance. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-05-28.