linguist Jeff Leer

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Jeff Leer was an American linguist renowned for his extensive documentation and analysis of Tlingit and other Native Alaskan languages.

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instanceOf American
linguist
person
contributedTo preservation of Native Alaskan languages
preservation of Tlingit
ethnolinguisticFocus Native peoples of Alaska
fieldOfWork Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages

Native Alaskan languages
Tlingit
surface form: Tlingit language

linguistics
hasNotableStudentOrCollaborator Tlingit language community
knownFor analysis of Native Alaskan languages
analysis of Tlingit
documentation of Native Alaskan languages
documentation of Tlingit
languageStudied Northern Athabaskan languages
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Eyak
Tlingit
nationality United States of America
surface form: United States
notableWork documentation of Tlingit oral literature
reconstruction of Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
research on Tlingit verb morphology
occupation linguist
studied indigenous languages of Alaska
studiesTopic comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
morphology
phonology
syntax
workLocation Alaska
United States of America
surface form: United States

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Tlingit documentedBy linguist Jeff Leer