{{short description|American linguist (born 1944)}} {{infobox scientist |name=Denny Moore |birth_date={{birth year and age|1944}} |education=University of Michigan<br>City University of New York (PhD) |occupation={{flatlist| *Linguist *anthropologist }} }} '''Denny Moore''' (born 1944) is an American linguist, and anthropologist.<ref name=astor>{{cite news| title=Linguist Looks to Spoken Record to Provide Clues| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-11-mn-39707-story.html| last=Astor| first=Michael| date=11 June 2000| work=Los Angeles Times| access-date=2014-08-21}}</ref>
He graduated from the University of Michigan, and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.{{when|date=August 2014}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome to the Genius Factory |url=http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Anthropology/docs/geniusfactory.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612194338/http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/docs/geniusfactory.pdf |archive-date=June 12, 2010 |access-date=April 30, 2010 |website=CUNY Graduate Center}}</ref> He has worked for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development,<ref name=conf>{{cite web| title=Project for the Audio-Video Documentation of the Indigenous Languages of Brazil| url=http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Endangered_Lang_Conf/Moore.html| date=25 October 1996| publisher=University of California, Berkeley| access-date=2014-08-21}}</ref> and is Coordinator of the Linguistics Division, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem-Para, Brazil.<ref name=losers>{{cite news| title=With World Opening Up, Languages Are Losers| url=http://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/123.htm| agency=Associated Press| date=16 May 1999| work=The New York Times| access-date=2014-08-21}}</ref> He published a grammar of Gavião, a Brazilian Amazonian language.<ref name=hinchberger>{{cite web| title=Denny Moore: A Fighting Chance for Indian Languages| url=http://www.brazilmax.com/news.cfm/tborigem/pl_amazon/id/13| last=Hinchberger| first=Bill| date=20 August 2003| publisher=Brazilmax.com| access-date=2014-05-21| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305011451/http://www.brazilmax.com/news.cfm/tborigem/pl_amazon/id/13| archive-date=5 March 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=terra>{{cite web| title=About Us: Scientific Advisory Panel| url=http://www.terralingua.org/2/OrgsAmericas.html| publisher=Terralingua| access-date=2014-08-21}}</ref> He is on the advisory board of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology.<ref name=cace>{{cite web| title=Who We Are: Advisory Board| url=http://www.amazonecology.org/aboutus/who.html| publisher=Center for Amazon Community Ecology| access-date=2014-08-21}}</ref>
==Awards== *1999 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/619/|title=MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-31}}</ref>
==Works== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=6p6b5GQ4Q4YC&dq=Denny+Moore+linguist&pg=PA29 "Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America"], ''Language diversity endangered'', Editor Matthias Brenzinger, Walter de Gruyter, 2007 {{ISBN|978-3-11-017050-4}}
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==External links== *[http://www.colorado.edu/ling/CRIL/Volume17_Issue1/article_Stenzel.htm "Can You Sleep in a Hammock? And a Few Other Questions that Never Came up in Field Methods Class"], ''Colorado Research in Linguistics'', June 2004, Kristine Stenzel *[https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHGRd0UKoUC&dq=Denny+Moore+linguist&pg=PA27 ''After the trees: living on the Transamazon Highway''], Douglas Ian Stewart, University of Texas Press, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-292-77680-7}}
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