Gregory David Shelton Anderson 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 ...

specializing in languages of Siberian,

Munda languages The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India and Bangladesh. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language famil ...

, and

auxiliary verbs An auxiliary verb (abbreviated ) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a p ...

. Anderson earned his doctorate in linguistics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

in 2000, and is currently director of the

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (LTIEL) is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization based in Salem, Oregon, United States. The institute's focus is to scientifically document endangered languages, as well as assist communities with ...

. He was featured in the documentary film ''

The Linguists ''The Linguists'' is an independent 2008 American documentary film produced by Ironbound Films about language extinction and language documentation. It follows two linguists, Greg Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languag ...

''.

Books

Anderson is the author of books including: * ''Tuvan Dictionary'' (with K. David Harrison, LINCOM, 2003) * ''Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic'' (Turcologica 51, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2004) * ''Language contact in South Central Siberia'' (Turcologica 54, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2005) * ''Auxiliary Verb Constructions'' (Oxford University Press, 2006) * ''The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives'' (De Gruyter, 2007) He is also editor of an

edited volume An edited volume or edited collection is a collection of scholarly or scientific chapters written by different authors. The chapters in an edited volume are original works (not republished works). Alternative terms for edited volume are ''contrib ...

, ''The Munda Languages'' (Routledge, 2008).Review of ''The Munda Languages'': *

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Description at Living Tongues Institute
American Turkologists Linguists from the United States Linguists of Southeast Asian languages People from Salem, Oregon Living people 21st-century linguists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-linguist-stub