Denny Moore

Denny Moore (born 1944) is an American linguist, and anthropologist.^[1]

He graduated from the University of Michigan, and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.^[2] He has worked for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development,^[3] and is Coordinator of the Linguistics Division, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem-Para, Brazil.^[4] He published a grammar of Gavião, a Brazilian Amazonian language.^[5][6] He is on the advisory board of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology.^[7]

Awards

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America", Language diversity endangered, Editor Matthias Brenzinger, Walter de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4

References

1. Astor, Michael (11 June 2000). "Linguist Looks to Spoken Record to Provide Clues". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
2. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20100612194338/http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/docs/geniusfactory.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "Project for the Audio-Video Documentation of the Indigenous Languages of Brazil". University of California, Berkeley. 25 October 1996. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
4. "With World Opening Up, Languages Are Losers". The New York Times. Associated Press. 16 May 1999. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
5. Hinchberger, Bill (20 August 2003). "Denny Moore: A Fighting Chance for Indian Languages". Brazilmax.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
6. "About Us: Scientific Advisory Panel". Terralingua. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
7. "Who We Are: Advisory Board". Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Retrieved 2014-08-21.

External links

• "Can You Sleep in a Hammock? And a Few Other Questions that Never Came up in Field Methods Class", Colorado Research in Linguistics, June 2004, Kristine Stenzel
• After the trees: living on the Transamazon Highway, Douglas Ian Stewart, University of Texas Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-292-77680-7