
Marianne Mithun
University of California, Santa Barbara
Marianne Mithun is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interests include morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; language documentation; and language revitalization. Her work has included special focus on languages indigenous to North America and languages of the Austronesian family.