Marianne Mithun#
| Membership Number: | 4217 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/mithun |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 - present Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- 1982-1986 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (spring semesters)
- 1973-1985 Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor Dept of Anthropology, State University of New York, Albany
Fields of Scholarship
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Discourse
- Prosody
- Language change
- Language contact
- Typology
- Documentation
- North American indigenous languages
- Austronesian languages
Honours and Awards
- 2014 President, Societas Linguistica Europaea (European Linguistic Society)
- 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award
- 2008 Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
- 2007 University Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2005 Medaille du College de France, Paris
- 2003 Doctor Honoris Causa, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2000 Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Oslo, Norway
- 1998 Elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
