Andrea Berez-Kroeker is a documentary linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a public land-grant research university in Mānoa, a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the flagship campus of the University of Haw ...

. She is the director of the

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

archive of endangered languages. She is an expert on the practices of reproducibility and management of data in the field of linguistics.

Language documentation

Berez-Kroeker's work has focused on the documentation and preservation of

endangered language An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead langu ...

s. She has created language documentation materials for the

Athabascan Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...

languages Ahtna and Dena'ina. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011 with a dissertation titled "Discourse, Landscape, and Directional Reference in Ahtna." Her work on Ahtna includes using GIS to investigate the

lexicalization In linguistics, lexicalization is the process of adding words, set phrases, or word patterns to a language's lexicon. Whether '' word formation'' and ''lexicalization'' refer to the same process is controversial within the field of linguistics. M ...

of directionals, a subcategory of deixis, in language. Her recent documentary work in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

includes documentation of Kuman as well as a video documentary of Kere, a language. She is the editor of books on language change, linguistic fieldwork, and a lexicon of Dena'ina.

Linguistic data

Berez-Kroeker has given talks and workshops on reproducibility in the field of linguistics, including data sharing and citation. She currently works to create infrastructure that promotes the long-term sustainability and interoperability of data. She is a principal investigator for a

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

grant studying the practices of data citation and attribution of data in the field of linguistics, including the creation and dissemination of resources on data use and sharing.

Honors and awards

Berez-Kroeker was the president of Delaman (Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network) from 2014 to 2016 and in 2017 was the senior co-chair of the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation of the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

. Berez-Kroeker received the Early Career Award in 2019 from the

for her work on the documentation of

s. In particular, the society recognized her for the "technological sophistication to her work, especially in the areas of language archiving, data processing, and visualization."

References

External links

Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker

Kaipuleohone
{{DEFAULTSORT:Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Linguists of Papuan languages Linguists of Chimbu–Wahgi languages Linguists of Na-Dene languages Linguists from the United States University of Hawaiʻi faculty University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Women linguists