Dr. Strang Burton

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Linguistics

Faculty of Arts

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Strang Burton (Ph.D. in linguistics, Rutgers University, 1995) is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Linguistics at UBC, and also works as an employee of the Stolo Nation language program, specializing in documentation and re-vitalization work for severely endangered languages. He has worked for many years with elders and community members to document the Upriver Halq’emeylem (Halkomelem) language, working for a community-run language revitalization program, the Stolo Shxweli Halq’emeylem Language program, at the Stolo Nation, in Chilliwack, BC.

Research Interests

Documentation and re-vitalization work for severely endangered languages, particularly Upriver Halq’emeylem (Halkomelem).

 

Contact

Dr. Strang Burton

Assistant Professor of Teaching
Linguistics

(604) 827-5634

Strang.Burton@ubc.ca

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

UBC Language Sciences

4031 Audain Art Centre
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel 604 822 7435
E-mail language.sciences@ubc.ca
Website languagesciences.ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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