Hanni Woodbury
Hanni Woodbury is a German-American linguist and anthropologist who specializes in Onondaga and other Iroquoian languages. She was born in Hamburg and moved with her family to the United States after World War II.[1] She has done fieldwork on Onondaga for more than three decades. Her Onondaga–English dictionary—the first dictionary of Onondaga—was described as "monumental".[2] She was awarded one of the Mary Haas Awards in 1994 from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for her work on Onondaga ceremonies.[2]
Works
[edit]- Woodbury, Hanni (1979). Noun Incorporation in Onondaga. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Gibson, John Arthur; Woodbury, Hanni; Henry, Reginald; Webster, Harry; Goldenweiser, Alexander (1992). Concerning the League: The Iroquois League Tradition as Dictated in Onondaga by John Arthur Gibson. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.
- Woodbury, Hanni (2014) [2003]. Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-2872-4.[3][4][5][2]
- Woodbury, Hanni (2018). A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-0282-9.
References
[edit]- ^ "Hanni Woodbury". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Abbott, Clifford (2005). "Onondaga‐English English‐Onondaga Dictionary (Woodbury)". International Journal of American Linguistics. 71 (1): 116–118. doi:10.1086/430581. ISSN 0020-7071.
- ^ Rice, Keren (2004). "Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 74 (1): 332–333. doi:10.1353/utq.2005.0195. ISSN 1712-5278.
- ^ Rudes, Blair A. (2004). "Review of Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary". Anthropological Linguistics. 46 (1): 116–118. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30028955.
- ^ Vajda, Edward J. (2004). "Hanni Woodbury Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. x + 1563. US$175.00 (hardcover)". Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 49 (1): 130–132. doi:10.1017/S0008413100002875. ISSN 0008-4131. S2CID 149100660.
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