Dr. Christopher Cox

Biography

Christopher Cox is an Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University, focusing on Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies. He has an extensive academic background, holding a B.A. in Linguistics and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, an M.Sc. in Linguistics from the University of Alberta, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Alberta. For over twenty years, he has been actively involved in community-based language documentation, revitalization, and educational efforts in partnership with speakers of Plautdietsch, a language traditionally spoken by Dutch-Russian Mennonites, as well as with Dene communities in Alberta and Yukon. His research emphasizes language documentation, descriptive linguistics, language revitalization, corpus linguistics, and quantitative methods, including morphology and Na-Dene languages. Cox has secured multiple research grants, focusing on the development of computational tools to support Indigenous language education and revitalization. He has contributed to various publications and has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences.

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