Scott DeLancey
University of Oregon
Scott DeLancey is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist in Tibeto-Burman languages, especially of Northeast India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Besides descriptive and comparative/historical work on these languages, he has published extensively on topics in linguistic typology related to his descriptive and historical work, including ergative syntax, evidentiality and mirativity, and “hierarchical” verb agreement. He has worked with Native American tribes in Oregon in language revitalization projects, and in Northeast India with local linguists to promote documentation and description of the 150+ “tribal” languages of the region