# Nora England > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nora_England > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nora_England.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_England > Source revision: 1342653974 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American linguist (1946–2022)}} {{About|the academic|the artist|Nora England (artist)}} {{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](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College) {{Small|([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))}} * [University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida) {{Small|([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts), [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy))}} }} | discipline = [Linguistics](/source/Linguistics) | sub_discipline = [Language documentation](/source/Language_documentation), [linguistic typology](/source/linguistic_typology), [Mayan languages](/source/Mayan_languages), [language politics](/source/language_politics), [language ideology](/source/language_ideology) | 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)](/source/Ch'orti'_language) (1971–1973) * [University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida) (1975) * [Mississippi State University](/source/Mississippi_State_University) (1975–1977) * [University of Iowa](/source/University_of_Iowa) (1977–2001) * [Universidad Mariano Gálvez](/source/Universidad_Mariano_G%C3%A1lvez) (1990) * [Universidad Rafael Landívar](/source/Universidad_Rafael_Land%C3%ADvar) (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997) * [Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’](/source/Oxlajuuj_Keej_Maya%E2%80%99_Ajtz%E2%80%99iib%E2%80%99) (1990–2009) * [The University of Texas at Austin](/source/The_University_of_Texas_at_Austin) (2001–2022) }} | awards = [MacArthur Fellow](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program), [Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America](/source/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](/source/linguist), [Mayanist](/source/Mayanist), and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the [University of Texas at Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin).{{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}} Her research focused on the grammar of [Mayan languages](/source/Mayan_languages) and contemporary Mayan language politics.{{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}}{{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}} == Education and career == England graduated from [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College) with a B.A. in 1967 and the [University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida) in 1975 with an M.A. and a Ph.D.{{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}} While there, she led a workshop and field visit to [Iximche](/source/Iximche), attended by [Linda Schele](/source/Linda_Schele) and Nicholai Grube.[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''] After taking a post as a linguistics professor at the [University of Texas in Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_in_Austin) in 2001, she became the founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA).{{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}}{{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}} The University of Texas hosts England's Mayan Language Collection at the [Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America](/source/Archive_of_the_Indigenous_Languages_of_Latin_America).{{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}} England's previous experiences include teaching positions at [Mississippi State University](/source/Mississippi_State_University) and the [University of Iowa](/source/University_of_Iowa), and training more than 100 [Mayanist](/source/Mayanist)s who have since gone on to work in various fields and are part of the first [Maya](/source/Maya_people) generation able to receive substantial postsecondary education. England died on January 26, 2022, at the age of 75.{{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](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin)}} ==Awards and honors== * 1993–1998 [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program){{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}} * In 2017, England was inducted as a [Fellow](/source/Fellow_of_the_Linguistic_Society_of_America) of the [Linguistic Society of America](/source/Linguistic_Society_of_America).{{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}} ==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](/source/A_grammar_of_Mam%2C_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}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==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](/source/Internet_Archive) |series=Doctoral thesis/dissertation|location=Gainesville |publisher=[University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida) |oclc=3497675}} {{refend}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120327101345/http://en.scientificcommons.org/nora_c_england "Nora C. England"], ''Scientific Commons'' {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:England, Nora}} Category:2022 deaths Category:1946 births Category:Linguists from the United States Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty Category:University of Iowa faculty Category:Mayanists Category:American Mesoamericanists Category:Women Mesoamericanists Category:Linguists of Mesoamerican languages Category:20th-century Mesoamericanists Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:American women linguists Category:Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America Category:21st-century Mesoamericanists Category:University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nora England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_England) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_England?action=history)). 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