Christopher Cox
Assistant Professor
Linguistics and Language Studies
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Christopher Cox is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research centres on issues in language documentation, description, and revitalization, with a special focus on the creation and application of permanent, accessible collections of language resources (corpora). For the past twenty years, he has been involved with community-based language documentation, education, and revitalization efforts, most extensively in partnership with speakers of Plautdietsch, the traditional language of the Dutch-Russian Mennonites, and with Dene communities in Alberta and Yukon.
Research Interest
Language documentation, descriptive linguistics, language revitalization, corpus linguistics, quantitative methods, morphology, Na-Dene languages, Plautdietsch
Publications
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Starlight, Bruce, Gary Donovan, and Christopher Cox (eds., in preparation). John Onespot and Edward Sapir: Collected Tsuut’ina Narratives and Linguistic Notes, 1922. Revised scholarly edition of Tsuut’ina traditional narratives and linguistic notes assembled by John Onespot (Whitney) and Edward Sapir in 1922.
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Christensen, Julia, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-Jones (eds., to appear). Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
