Tania Granadillo

I am an Anthropologist and a Linguist interested in Language broadly understood.   My geographical area of focus has been Indigenous languages of Venezuela, having worked on Mapoyo (Carib family) and Kurripako (Arawak family). Additionally I have been working in Canada with Oneida (Haudenasaune) and Tłı̨chǫ (Dene/Athabascan). My topics of interest are varied and encompass both anthropological and linguistics themes. I am interested in endangered languages, language revitalization, language documentation and description, language shift and maintenance, language ideologies, language policy, discourse, storytelling, verbal art, linguistic typology, writing systems, phonology, morphosyntax, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language and culture, bi/multilingualism, language acquisition/socialization and many other topics!

I also incorporate into my work many socio-cultural topics such as kinship, political economy, religion, landscape, and others as necessary to understand the complex world of indigenous people and their languages.

I am interested in supervising graduate student research related to language shift or language revitalization projects, particularly among kids/teens. Amerindian languages are my primary interest, but I am open to any area of the world.