Ellavina Perkins

{{Short description|American linguist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Ellavina Tsosie Perkins''' (born 1940) is an independent linguist and scholar of the Navajo language.

She was a student of the late MIT linguistics professor Ken Hale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Navajo Language Academy |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla/halearch/halearch.htm |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.swarthmore.edu}}</ref> She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona; her dissertation dealt with word order and lexical scope in Navajo.<ref name="disseratation">{{cite document | first = Ellavina Tsosie | last = Perkins | title = The Role of Word Order and Scope in the Interpretation of Navajo Sentences | publisher = University of Arizona | year = 1978}}</ref>

Perkins is on the board of directors of the Navajo Language Academy,<ref>{{Cite web |title=nla_gen |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla/nla_gen.htm |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.swarthmore.edu}}</ref> under the auspices of which she is currently collaborating with Theodore B. Fernald on the Navajo Grammar Project, which aims to produce a reference grammar of the Navajo Language.<ref name="navajoGrammarProject">{{cite web |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla/nla_grammar.htm |title=Navajo Reference Grammar |format=web page |accessdate=2009-05-28}}</ref> The project received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities<ref name="NEHgrant">{{cite web | title = National Endowment for the Humanities: FY 2008 Grant Obligations | publisher = National Humanities Alliance | year = 2008 | url = http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/fy08neharizona.pdf | accessdate = 2009-05-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716070128/http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/fy08neharizona.pdf | archive-date = 2011-07-16 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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