Gregory David Shelton Anderson is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

specializing in languages of

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

Munda languages The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about eleven million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic langu ...

, and

auxiliary verbs An auxiliary verb ( abbreviated ) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or ...

. Anderson earned his doctorate in linguistics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

in 2000, and is currently director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. He was featured in the documentary film ''

The Linguists ''The Linguists'' is an independent 2008 American documentary film produced by Ironbound Films about language extinction and language documentation. It follows two linguists, Greg Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Langu ...

''.

Books

Anderson is the author of books including: * ''Tuvan Dictionary'' (with K. David Harrison, LINCOM, 2003) * ''Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic'' (Turcologica 51, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2004) * ''Language contact in South Central Siberia'' (Turcologica 54, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2005) * ''Auxiliary Verb Constructions'' (Oxford University Press, 2006) * ''The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives'' (De Gruyter, 2007) He is also editor of an

edited volume Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written language, written, Image editing, visual, Audio engineer, audible, or Film editing, cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing p ...

, ''The Munda Languages'' (Routledge, 2008).Review of ''The Munda Languages'': *

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Description at Living Tongues Institute
American Turkologists Linguists of Sino-Tibetan languages People from Salem, Oregon Living people 21st-century American linguists Year of birth missing (living people) Linguists of Munda languages {{US-linguist-stub