Killam Research Fellowship awarded to FASS professor

Marie-Odile Junker is one of eight outstanding Canadian researchers to be awarded a Killam Research Fellowship, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The Fellowship is worth $70,000 a year for two years.

The project will enable Junker, a professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, to research the word formations used for Cree and Innu, two Eastern Canada Aboriginal languages, with particular emphasis on understanding traditional ecological knowledge and human cognition. The work will be used to produce online specialized topical dictionaries in these two endangered languages as well as contribute to the advancement of knowledge in linguistics.

Her research interests include theoretical linguistics, syntax and semantics, cognitive sciences, French, Aboriginal languages (East Cree) and cross cultural communications.