Affiliated Faculty Profile
Jane H. Hill
Contact Information
Research and teaching focus: General linguistics, language and culture, sociolinguistics of Native American languages. language and racism, English and Spanish focus; book on grammar of Cupeño Indians of Southern California; descriptive, historical, language-and-culture, and sociolinguistic study of Tohono O'odham; Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics and archaeology.
Area studies courses: Language and Political Economy in the Southwest
Selected Publications
Hill, J. 2004. “The Origins of the Uto-Aztecans.” In Desierto y fronteras: El norte de México y otros contextos culturales, eds. Hernán Salas Quintanal & Rafael Pérez Taylor, 249-264. México: UNAM/Plaza y Valdes Editores.
Hill, J., and Kenneth C. Hill. 2004. Word Order Type Change and the Penetration of Spanish de in Modern Nahuatl. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals 57: 23-48.
Hill, J. 2003. “Proto-Uto-Aztecan and the Northern Devolution.” In Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, eds. Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew, 331-40. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Hill, J. 2003. “Mocking Spanish from Above and Below.” In Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike, eds. Mary Ruth Wise, Thomas Headland, and Ruth Brend. Dallas: Summer I”nstitute of Linguistics.
Hill, J. 2001. “Proto-Uto-Aztecan: A Community of Cultivators in Central Mexico? American Anthropologist 103 (4): 913-34.