She has been active in O'odham language revitalization, authored A Papago Grammar , and is currently working on an O'odham dictionary. She will give a poetry reading on April 27 and the following day visit selected classes to talk about her language work. Two papers are about to be published, one on Towa morphology and the other on the history of Native American language contact. He has also been invited to join a project on endangered languages sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education. This will enable him to do field work in New Mexico for the next three summers.
Details are available in the department office.
The deadline for submission of applications is March 15. The deadline for submission of papers for the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics has been extended to April 7. Manuscripts should be submitted to the editors through the Linguistics Department office. The word chosen by the American Dialect Society as Word of the Decade was Web .