Ellavina Perkins
American linguist
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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.[1] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona; her dissertation dealt with word order and lexical scope in Navajo.[2]
Perkins is on the board of directors of the Navajo Language Academy,[3] 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.[4] The project received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities[5]
