Jane H. Hill
Office: Haury 310 Phone: 520-621-4735
Jane Hill
Email:
 jhill@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles, 1966
Affiliation:

Regent's Professor, Departments of AnthropologyAnthropology and Linguistics
Interests:
 Native American linguistics, emphasizing Uto-Aztecan languages; sociolinguistics of the southern southwest; Nahua studies; language and racism
Classes:
 Anth 316 Political Economy of Language in the Southwest

Current Research:

 Writing book on language and racism, English and Spanish focus; book on grammar of Cupeņo Indians of Southern California; descriptive, historical, language-and-culture, and sociolinguistic study of Tohono O'odham; Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics and archaeology.

 

Recent Major Publications:

Forthcoming A Grammar of Cupeño . University of California Publications in Linguistics.
2002 Toward a linguistic prehistory of the Southwest: "Azteco-Tanoan" and the Arrival of Maize Cultivation. Journal of Anthropological Research 58(4):457-76.
2002 "Expert rhetorics" in advocacy for endangered languages: Who is listening, and what do they hear? Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.12(2):119-133.
2001 Proto-Uto-Aztecan: A community of cultivators in central Mexico? American Anthropologist 103:913-34.
2001 Avances y balances de lenguas yutoaztecas (co-edited with José Luis Moctezuma Z.). Collección Científica, Serie Lingüística. México, DF: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
2000 Read my article: Language ideology and the overdetermination of promising in American presidential politics. In Paul V. Kroskrity, ed., Regimes of Language, pp. 259-292. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.
1999 Hablando Mexicano . Translated by José Antonio Flores F. and Gerardo López C. México, D.F.: CIESAS/INI. (Translation of 1986).
1998 Language, race, and white public space. American Anthropologist 100 (3):680-689
1998

(with D. L. Shaul) Tepimans, Yumans, and other Hohokam. American Antiquity 63:375-396.

1998 (with O. Zepeda) Tohono O'odham (Papago) plurals. Anthropological Linguistics 40:1-42

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