Nora England

{{Infobox academic | name = Nora Clearman England | birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|11|08}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|26|1946|11|08}} | website = [https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/nce1946 UT Faculty Page] | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * Bryn Mawr College {{Small|(BA)}} * University of Florida {{Small|(MA, PhD)}} }} | discipline = Linguistics | sub_discipline = Language documentation, linguistic typology, Mayan languages, language politics, language ideology<ref name=faculty /> | thesis_title = Mam Grammar in Outline | thesis_url = https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00097526/00001/images | thesis_year = 1975 | doctoral_advisor = Martha James Hardman | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín (PLFM) (1971–1973) * University of Florida (1975) * Mississippi State University (1975–1977) * University of Iowa (1977–2001) * Universidad Mariano Gálvez (1990) * Universidad Rafael Landívar (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997) * Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’ (1990–2009) * The University of Texas at Austin (2001–2022) }} | awards = MacArthur Fellow, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America | title = Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities | known_for = Founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA) }}

'''Nora Clearman England''' (November 8, 1946 – January 26, 2022) was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.<ref name=faculty>{{Cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/linguistics/faculty/nce1946|title=Profile for Nora C. England at UT Austin|access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary Mayan language politics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nora England {{!}} The Mesoamerica Center {{!}} The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://utmesoamerica.org/nora-england|access-date=2019-04-12|website=utmesoamerica.org|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412201325/https://utmesoamerica.org/nora-england|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nora England|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ashL-7MAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2022-01-21|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref>

== Education and career == England graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1967 and the University of Florida in 1975 with an M.A. and a Ph.D.<ref name="MacFound">{{Cite web|title=Nora C. England|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1993/nora-c-england|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.macfound.org|language=en}}</ref> While there, she led a workshop and field visit to Iximche, attended by Linda Schele and Nicholai Grube.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QRxr0uuxw3kC&dq=Nora+England&pg=PA311 ''The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs'']</ref>

After taking a post as a linguistics professor at the University of Texas in Austin in 2001, she became the founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA).<ref>{{cite web|title=Nora C. England|url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/centers-programs/cilla/steering-committee.html|access-date=19 May 2023|website=The University of Texas at Austin Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university|url=http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/301?htmlOnce=yes}}</ref> The University of Texas hosts England's Mayan Language Collection at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mayan Languages Collection of Nora England {{!}} The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America|url=https://ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:124483|access-date=2022-01-21|website=ailla.utexas.org|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121191032/https://ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:124483|url-status=dead}}</ref>

England's previous experiences include teaching positions at Mississippi State University and the University of Iowa, and training more than 100 Mayanists who have since gone on to work in various fields and are part of the first Maya generation able to receive substantial postsecondary education.<ref name = "MacFound"/>

England died on January 26, 2022, at the age of 75.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memoriam: Nora C. England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/news/in-memoriam-nora-c-england-visionary-linguist-and-mentor |last=Sharpe |first=Susanna |date=2022-03-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250625043347/https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/news/in-memoriam-nora-c-england-visionary-linguist-and-mentor |archive-date=June 25, 2025 |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies |publisher=University of Texas at Austin}}</ref>

==Awards and honors== * 1993–1998 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nora C. England|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1993/nora-c-england|access-date=2022-01-21|website=www.macfound.org|language=en}}</ref> * In 2017, England was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.<ref>{{cite web |title=Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-fellows-year-induction |access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>

==Works== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=dmAaKhGWq90C&dq=Nora%20England&pg=PA131 "Issues in comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives'"], ''Preferred argument structure: grammar as architecture for function'', Editors John W. Du Bois, Lorraine Edith Kumpf, William J. Ashby, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003, {{ISBN|978-90-272-2624-2}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=aME_zTAxH58C&dq=Nora+England&pg=PA99 "Mayan efforts toward language preservation"], ''Endangered languages: language loss and community response'', Editors Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Cambridge University Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-521-59712-8}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=ILNINcWre5wC&dq=Nora+England&pg=PA239 "Control and Complementation at Kusaal"], ''Current approaches to African linguistics'', Volume 4, Editor David Odden, Walter de Gruyter, 1987, {{ISBN|978-90-6765-312-1}} * ''A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language'', University of Texas Press, 1983, {{ISBN|9780292727267}} *"Space as a Mam Grammatical Theme", ''Papers in Mayan linguistics'', Editor Nora C. England, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978, {{ISBN|978-0-913134-87-0}}

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==Bibliography== {{refbegin|indent=yes}} * {{cite book |author=England, Nora Clearman |year=1975 |title=Mam Grammar in Outline |url=https://archive.org/details/mamgrammarinoutl00englrich |format=digital reproduction at Internet Archive |series=Doctoral thesis/dissertation|location=Gainesville |publisher=University of Florida |oclc=3497675}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120327101345/http://en.scientificcommons.org/nora_c_england "Nora C. England"], ''Scientific Commons''

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