Pamela Munro (b. May 23, 1947) is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

who specializes in Native American

languages Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

. She is a distinguished research professor emeritus of linguistics at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where she has held a position since 1974. She earned her PhD in 1974 from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, where her graduate adviser was

Margaret Langdon Margaret Langdon (c. 1926 in Louvain, Belgium – October 25, 2005) was a US linguist who studied and documented many languages of the American Southwest and California, including Kumeyaay, Northern Diegueño (Ipai), and Luiseño. Academic care ...

. Her dissertation, entitled ''Topics in Mojave Syntax,'' was published by Garland in 1976. Her research has concentrated on all aspects of the grammars of indigenous languages of the Americas, most recently focusing on the

Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as ...

(

Muskogean Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a Native American language family spoken in different areas of the Southeastern United States. Though the debate concerning their interrelationships is ongoing, the Muskogean languages are generally div ...

; Oklahoma),

Garifuna The Garifuna people ( or ; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are a people of mixed free African and indigenous American ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian ...

(

Arawakan Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branch ...

; Central America), Imbabura

Quichua Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (''Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers. The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo ...

(

Quechuan Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely ...

; Ecuador),

Tongva The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . Some descendants of the people prefer Kizh as an endonym that, they argue, is more historically ...

(

Uto-Aztecan Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztekan or (rarely in English) Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The na ...

; Los Angeles Basin), and Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (Zapotecan; Central Oaxaca, Mexico) languages. She has published numerous articles and books, and was instrumental in the creation of

dictionaries A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, p ...

for San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec,

and

Wolof Wolof or Wollof may refer to: * Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania * Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania * The Wolof or Jolof Empire, a medieval West African successor of the Mal ...

. She is also the compiler of a series of books on college

slang Slang is vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-gro ...

, ''Slang U''. Munro was named to be the Ken Hale Professor at the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute held at

UC-Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institu ...

Selected publications

*Chickasaw Language Committee, Joshua D. Hinson, John P. Dyson, and Pamela Munro, 2012. Anompilbashsha' Asilhha' Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Book. Ada, OK: Chickasaw Press. *Langacker, Ronald W. and Pamela Munro. 1975. "Passives and their meaning", Language 51: 789-830. *Lopez, Felipe H., and Pamela Munro. 1998
The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights translated into San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec
*Lopez, Felipe H., and Pamela Munro. 1999. "Zapotec Immigration: The San Lucas Quiaviní Experience". Aztlan. 24, 1: 129-149. *Munro, Pamela. 1976. ''Mojave Syntax''. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. *Munro, Pamela and Lynn Gordon. 1982. "Syntactic relations in Western Muskogean: A typological perspective", Language 58: 81-115. *Munro, Pamela. 1990. "Stress and vowel length in Cupan absolute nominals", IJAL 56: 217-50. *Munro, Pamela. 1991. ''Slang'' ''U''. Penguin Random House. *Munro, Pamela. 1993. "The Muskogean II prefixes and their significance for classification", IJAL 59: 374-404. *Munro, Pamela. 1996. "Making a Zapotec Dictionary". Dictionaries 17: 131-55. *Munro, Pamela and Dieynaba Gaye. 1997. Ay Baati Wolof: A Wolof Dictionary.] UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics. *Munro, Pamela. 1999. 'Chickasaw Subjecthood' in External Possession, Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi (eds), Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 251-289. *Munro, Pamela. 2002. "Hierarchical Pronouns in Discourse: Third Person Pronouns in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Narratives". Southwest Journal of Linguistics 21: 37-66. *Munro, Pamela. 2003.
Preserving the Language of the Valley Zapotecs: The Orthography Question
" Presented at Language and Immigration in France and the United States: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. University of Texas. *Munro, Pamela, et al. 2008. "Yaara' Shiraaw'ax 'Eyooshiraaw'a. Now You're Speaking Our Language: Gabrielino/Tongva/Fernandeño." Lulu.com. *Munro, Pamela (editor); Susan E. Becker, Gina Laura Bozajian, Deborah S. Creighton, Lori E. Dennis, Lisa Renée Ellzey, Michelle L. Futterman, Ari B. Goldstein, Sharon M. Kaye, Elaine Kealer, Irene Susanne Veli Lehman, Lauren Mendelsohn, Joseph M. Mendoza, Lorna Profant, and Katherine A. Sarafian. 1991. ''Slang U.'' New York: Harmony Books. Excerpted as Pamela Munro, with Susan E. Becker, et al. "Party hats and pirates' dreams", Rolling Stone 600 (March 21, 1991): 67-69. *Munro, Pamela and Dieynaba Gaye. 1997. ''Ay Baati Wolof: A Wolof Dictionary'' (Revised Edition), UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics 19. *Munro, Pamela, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen and Felipe H. Lopez. 2007 Cali Chiu? A Course in Valley Zapotec. *Munro, Pamela and Felipe H. Lopez, with Olivia V. Méndez, Rodrigo Garcia, and Michael R. Galant. 1999. ''Di'csyonaary X:tèe'n Dìi'zh Sah Sann Lu'uc (San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary/ Diccionario Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní)''. Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, UCLA. *Munro, Pamela and Catherine Willmond. 1994. ''Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary''. Norman - London: University of Oklahoma Press. * Katherine Siva Saubel, Saubel, Katherine Siva and Pamela Munro. 1981. ''Chem'ivillu' (Let's Speak Cahuilla)''. Los Angeles and Banning, CA: UCLA American Indian Studies Center and Malki Museum Press. *Zigmond, Maurice L., Curtis G. Booth, and Pamela Munro. 1990. ''Kawaiisu: Grammar and Dictionary, with Texts''. University of California Publications in Linguistics 119.

References

External links

*
Homepage
at linguistics.ucla.edu {{DEFAULTSORT:Munro, Pamela 1947 births Linguists from the United States American Mesoamericanists Women Mesoamericanists Living people Linguists of Mesoamerican languages Native American language revitalization University of California, Los Angeles faculty Women lexicographers Linguists of Hokan languages Linguists of Muskogean languages Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages Paleolinguists Linguists of Oto-Manguean languages Linguists of Atlantic–Congo languages Women linguists 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists 20th-century Mesoamericanists 21st-century Mesoamericanists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Linguists of indigenous languages of North America