James Kari
American linguist
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- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Kari is a linguist and Professor Emeritus with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks specializing in the Dene of Alaska. For over fifty years he has done extensive linguistic work in many Dene languages including Ahtna, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Deg Hit'an, Holikachuk, Lower Tanana, Middle Tanana, Tanacross, Upper Tanana, and Babine-Witsuwit'en. He was on the faculty of UAF from 1973 until his retirement in 1997. He continues to work on numerous Alaska Native language projects. He is the author or editor of over 200 publications, including more than 4000 pages of bilingual texts in seven Dene languages. He is the most prolific contributor to the Alaska Native Language Archive . His special interest is Dene ethnogeography, and he has compiled or documented more than 14,000 place names in fourteen Alaska or Canadian Dene languages. He worked with Dena'ina writer and ethnographer Peter Kalifornsky on a 1991 compilation of his creative writings. In 2008 he was the organizer of the Dene–Yeniseian Symposium in Alaska, and co-editor of the volume The Dene–Yeniseian Connection published in 2010. In 2009 was selected Kari for the Alaska Governor's Award for the Humanities. In March 2013 Kari received the Professional Achievement Award at the 40th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. In 2019 he was presented with a volume of papers by colleagues that recognize his career in Dene research .
James Kari's Published Works
Published Works
- Affix Positions and Zones in the Athapaskan Verb Complex: Ahtna and Navajo (1989) (58)
- Ahtna Athabaskan dictionary (1990) (50)
- Navajo verb prefix phonology (1976) (48)
- Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary (2000) (43)
- Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina (1987) (38)
- Athabaskan verb theme categories : Ahtna (1980) (24)
- The Disjunct Boundary in the Navajo and Tanaina Verb Prefix Complexes (1975) (22)
- A Preliminary View of Hydronymic Districts in Northern Athabaskan Prehistory (1996) (13)
- Some Linguistic Insights Into Dena'ina Prehistory (1989) (12)
- Tatl'ahwt'aenn nenn' = The headwaters people's country : narratives of the Upper Ahtna Athabaskans (1986) (11)
- A Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky (1991) (11)
- Linguistic Diffusion between Tanaina and Ahtna (1977) (10)
- A Navajo lexicon (1974) (10)
- A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge (2011) (9)
- A Note on Athapaskan Directionals (1985) (8)
- Trends in the Study of Athapaskan Language Maintenance and Bilingualism. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 21. (1973) (8)
- Engithidong Xugixudhoy : their stories of long ago (1987) (5)
- Ttheek'adn Ut'iin Yaaniida Qqnign' = Old Time Stories of the Scottie Creek People. (1996) (5)
- 14. Trends in the Study of Athapaskan Language Maintenance and Bilingualism (1978) (5)
- Athabaskan stories from Anvik : rev. John W. Chapman's "Ten'a texts and tales" (1981) (4)
- Kahtnuht'ana qenaga = The Kenai people's language (1977) (4)
- AN INTRODUCTION TO DENA'INA GRAMMAR: THE KENAI (OUTER INLET) DIALECT (2010) (4)
- From the Land of Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis. Edited by Deni J. Seymour. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 443. $70.00. (2014) (4)
- Diversity in Morpheme Order in Several Alaskan Athabaskan Languages: Notes on the gh-qualifier (1993) (3)
- APACHEAN LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE (1974) (3)
- APACHEAN LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE (1974) (2)
- A Dena'ina Legacy: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky (1993) (2)
- Holikachuk noun dictionary : preliminary (1978) (2)
- Native Place Names of the Kantishna Drainage, Alaska. (1991) (2)
- Nuvendaltun ht'ana sukdu'a : Nondalton people's stories (1980) (2)
- A Symposium on Athapaskan Comparative Linguistics and Language Planning (1981) (1)
- GIS for cultural resources management in Alaska (2018) (1)
- Engithidong Xugixudhoy: Their Stories of Long Ago. Told in Deg Hit'an Athabaskan by Belle Deacon of Anvik. (1987) (1)
- Dena'ina noun dictionary (1977) (1)
- A Navajo lexicon By Harry Hoijer (review) (2015) (0)
- Cultural Resource Assessment: Beluga Study Area, Southcentral Alaska (1982) (0)
- Book Review:The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary Robert W. Young, William Morgan (1984) (0)
- Iliamna Dena'ina Key Words (2002) (0)
- Lower Tanana Athabaskan listening and writing exercises (1991) (0)
- Grammar: Koyukon Verbs, Nouns, Alphabet, General Grammar (1980) (0)
- Q'udi heyi niłch'diluyi sukdu'a : This year's collected stories (Dena'ina stories from Tyonek and Iliamna Lake) (1980) (0)
- Cook Inlet Region Inventory of Native Historic Sites and Cemeteries (1975) (0)
- Kalifornsky Songs and Stories (1972) (0)
- [Sava Stephan, Upper Inlet Dena'ina Literacy Exercises] (1995) (0)
- Navajo Language Bibliography. Preliminary Edition, September 1973. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 22. (1973) (0)
- A Navajo reading bibliography (1974) (0)
- Cumulative Publications List of publications produced or edited by Tupou Pulu or Mary L. Pope for the National Bilingual Materials Development Center or Bilingual Education Dept (2006) (0)
- Curriculum: Published Teaching Material, Lessons, Other (1980) (0)
- Advances on Two-dimensional Language Theory Scientific Report (2006) (0)
- Dena'ina as an Archaic Peripheral Language; Traveling Again in Shem Pete's Alaska (1993) (0)
- Vocabulary of the Languages of the Islands of Cadiak and Oonalashca, the Bay of Kenay, and Sitca Sound (1979) (0)
- Contributions of the United States Geological Survey to the Documentation of Alaska Native Names, 1950–75 (2000) (0)
- Obituary; Fedosia Sacaloff (1989) (0)
- James Kari; Correspondence (1971) (0)
- Ode setl'oghwnh da' = Long after I am gone : stories (1992) (0)
- GIS1 Colloquium: The development of the Ahtna place names corpus (2009) (0)
- Lazeni ’linn Nataełde Ghadghaande: When Russians Were Killed at “Roasted Salmon Place” (Batzulnetas) (2020) (0)
- Bibliography of Sources on Dena'ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology, Version 2.4 (2005) (0)
- On the Language Effort and Work in Alaskan Athabaskan Languages. (1991) (0)
- K'ela Sukdu (Mouse Story). (1974) (0)
- Aurora Borealis in Alaska Native Languages (1980) (0)
- Athabaskan Cultural Resources Along the Li Near Features of the Susitna Hydroelectric Project (1985) (0)
- California in Cook Inlet (1980) (0)
- Texts: Abbie Joseph; Kantishna Oral History Project (1980) (0)
- Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016 (2018) (0)
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