Clifford Abbott

 

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Linguistic Field:

• Oneida language

Cliff Abbott is Professor of Information and Computing Sciences. His graduate training is in linguistics with a PhD from Yale and he teaches for several programs: Communication, Information Sciences, Communication and the Arts, and First Nation Studies (First Nation Studies). His contribution to First Nation Studies focuses on the Oneida language. Over the past three decades he has played a number of cooperative roles with the Oneida nation in its efforts to preserve its language. He has helped to produce grammars, a dictionary, text collections, and teaching materials along with offering language instruction at several levels. He makes a point of offering the Oneida language course off-campus in the Oneida community.

Postal Address:

 

LDepartment Of First Nation Studies

UW Green Bay

TH 331 Nicolet Drive.

Green Bay, WI 54311

(920) 465.2348

 

Selected Publications:

 

An Oneida Dictionary/Ukwehu.wehneha Tekawanate'nyese by Amos Christjohn, Maria Hinton, Clifford Abbott

International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 298-302