Krauss, Michael

Michael Krauss is professor emeritus of linguistics, University of Alaska. After devoting his student and postdoctoral years to Gaelic, Icelandic, and Faroese, Professor Krauss has spent his entire career since 1960 in the study of Alaska Native languages, all more or less severely endangered, with special attention to Siberian Yupik, documentary and comparative work with Athabaskan, and above all, Eya, which now has one surviving native speaker. His publications include "Eyak Dictionary" (1970) and "In Honor of Eyak" (1982). In 1972 he founded the Alaska Native Language Center at the Universi...