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LaVerne Jeanne
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests:
My research and teaching focuses on anthropological linguistics, educational linguistics, second-language teaching, learning and literacy issues in Native American communities.

My work in linguistics is primarily on Hopi syntax. I have given numerous workshops in linguistics and language pedagogy for Native American communities. I have taught linguistics and anthropology at Northern Arizona University, New Mexico Highlands University and the University of Arizona in Tuscon.

Selected Publications: Jeanne, L.M.; K. Hale; and P. Platero. 1977. "Three Cases of Over-Generation." Studies in Formal Syntax, P. Culicover, et al. eds., 379-425. New York: Academic Press.

Jeanne, L.M., and C.F., and F.M. Voegelin. 1980. "Hopi Semantics." Handbook of North American Indians, Southwest W. Sturtevant and A. Ortiz eds., 9:581-586. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Jeanne, L.M. 1982. "Some phonological rules of Hopi." IJAL 48(3): 245-270.

Jeanne, L.M.; C. Thompkins; and M. Hausler. 1986. "Young Hopi readers and writers." NABE 2:83-93.

Jeanne, L.M., and K. Hale. 1989. "Argument Obviation and Switch Reference in Hopi." General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics: In Remembrance of Stanley Newman, M.R. Key and H.M. Hoenigswald, eds., 201-211. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Jeanne, L.M.; K. Hale; and P. Pranka. 1990. "On Suppletion, Selection and Agreement." Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.Y. Kuroda, C. Georgopoulos and R. Ishihara, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Jeanne, L.M. "Languages." In The Encyclopedia of North American Indians.

Jeanne, L.M. "Switch Reference and the Hopi Relative Clause." Anthropological Linguistics.

Jeanne, L.M. "An Institutional Response to Language Endangerment: A Proposal for a Native American Launguage Center." Language.