UT Arlington linguist wins NSF grant to breathe new life into endangered Native American languages

ARLINGTON - A University of Texas at Arlington linguist is working to save disappearing languages in Native American communities in Oklahoma – a state with the highest Native language diversity in the United States, but very little documentation.   Colleen Fitzgerald , associate professor and chairperson of UT Arlington's Department of Linguistics and TESOL , has won a $48,000 National Science Foundation grant along with Mary Linn, an anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma and curator of Native American language at