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Victor Golla (born 1939) is a linguist and a leading expert on the indigenous languages of California and Oregon, especially the Pacific Coast Athabaskan subgroup of the Athabaskan language family and the languages of the region that belong to the Penutian phylum. He is currently a semi-retired professor of anthropology at Humboldt State University and lives in Trinidad, California. == Life and work == Golla grew up in the small town of Mt. Shasta, in the far north of California, where his father was a funeral director and deputy coroner of Siskiyou County. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1952 and he attended high school in Oakland. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the same institution in 1970. Golla taught briefly at the University of Alberta (assistant professor of linguistics, 1966-1967) and Columbia University (instructor in anthropology, 1967–1968), and then settled in Washington, D.C. for two decades, teaching in the anthropology department at George Washington University (1968-1988) and conducting research on the extensive archival documentation of American Indian languages that is housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1988, he was invited to join the faculty of Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California, as professor of Native American Studies and director of the (Center for Indian Community Development ). In addition to his work at Humboldt, Golla has held a series of visiting appointments at UC Davis (professor of anthropology 1996-1997; research associate in anthropology, 1997-2006, and from 2001 co-principal investigator of the (J. P. Harrington Database Project. ) He has also served as a linguistic consultant to the Hoopa Valley Tribe, where he has been responsible for creating the Hupa Practical Alphabet and a number of pedagogical and reference materials, including an English-Hupa bilingual dictionary ((1996a )). He is the author of several scholarly books and numerous articles on American Indian languages, including three grammars of Hupa (1970, 1986a, 1996b) and a 1000-page compendium of the Hupa lexical and grammatical materials collected in 1927 by Edward Sapir (Sapir & Golla 2001). His latest major publication, ''(California Indian Languages )'' (2011) was awarded the 2013 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society of America for being the recently published book "which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics".〔() Bloomfield Book Award presentation, March 8, 2013.〕 In 1981 Golla helped found the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), and subsequently served for 25 years as the Society's secretary-treasurer and editor of its quarterly ''SSILA Newsletter'' (1982 to 2007). SSILA has recently established the ''Golla Prize'' in his honor, to recognize Americanist linguists who show a significant history of both linguistic scholarship and service to the scholarly community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Golla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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