Denny Moore
American linguist
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Biography
Denny Moore (born 1944) is an American linguist, and anthropologist.
He graduated from the University of Michigan, and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D. in Anthropology. He has worked for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and is Coordinator of the Linguistics Division, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem-Para, Brazil.
He published a grammar of Gavião, a Brazilian Amazonian language. He is on the advisory board of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology.
Awards
- 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- "Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America", Language diversity endangered, Editor Matthias Brenzinger, Walter de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4