Dr. Hunter Thompson Lockwood

Algonquian Linguistics for Language Reclamation

My research interests have never been limited to a single subfield or theoretical approach; I consider myself a Language Documentarian (or, if you prefer, Documentary Linguist) in the broadest sense. My focus for many years has been the documentation & revitalization of Algonquian languages, especially Miami-Illinois & Ojibwe-Potawatomi.

Miami-Illinois Language Revitalization

At any given moment I have several short- and long-term research projects, none of which would be possible without The Miami-Illinois Indigenous Languages Digital Archive. Under the supervision of Dr. David Costa, who set the foundation for the study of Miami-Illinois, I investigate many different aspects of the language, according to goals set by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Nisinoon

Algonquian languages are famous for their complex patterns of word-formation, or derivational morphology. As part of an NSF-Funded grant project, my former dissertation advisor Dr. Monica Macaulay and I are working with Dr. Daniel Hieber to create a tool to explore derivational components in Algonquian languages. Along the way, we have created a bibliography for the study of Algonquian derivational morphology and other resources.