Una Canger

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Una Canger (née Una Rasmussen) (May 14, 1938 —) is a Danish linguist specializing in languages of Mesoamerica. She has published mostly about the Nahuatl language with a particular focus on the Dialectology of Modern nahuatl, and is considered among the worlds leading specialists in this area. She currently holds tenure at the University of Copenhagen, leading the department for Native American Languages and Cultures.

Studying as the first female student in the department of Linguistics in University of Copenhagen she became interested the theories of Louis Hjelmslev. Later she attained her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1968, her thesis being a glossematic grammar of the Mayan language Mam. She worked with Mayan languages for awhile, particularly Mam, Teco, and Lacandón. But when she was offered a position at the University of Copenhagen she started studying Classical Nahuatl which lead to her later descriptive and dialectological work on modern Nahuatl.

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Canger Una, Karen Adrian; K. Lings, Kjeld; Nilsson, Jette y Schlanbusch, Anne . 1976. Diccionario de vocabulos aztecas contenidos en El arte de la Lengua Mexicana de Horacio *Carochi. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Canger, Una. 1988. Another look at Nahuatl -a:s&ka; ‘possession’. IJAL 54.2. 232-235. : .
Canger, Una. 1980. Five Studies inspired by nahuatl Verbs in -oa. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague 19. Copenhagen: .
Canger, Una. 1976. Fonologi, konsonanter 1. Zitlal. (Zitlala, Guerrero). Ms. : .
Canger, Una. 1988. Nahuatl dialectology: A survey and some suggestions. IJAL 54.1. 28-72.
Canger, Una. 1981. Reduplication in Nahuatl, in dialectal and historical perspective. Texas Linguistic Forum 18. Ed. by Frances Karttunen, ed.. 29-54. Austin: Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas.
Canger, Una. 1990. Review, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Karttunen). IJAL 52. 188-196. : .
Canger, Una. 1980. Sociolinguistic variation, language change in its social setting, Preliminary report on an Aztec case study. Ms. Symposium on Uto-Aztecan Historical Linguistics, June 24-26 1980, Albuquerque, New Mexico . : .
Canger, Una. 1988. Subgrupos de los dialectos nahuas. Smoke and Mist: Mesoamerican Studies in Memory of Thelma D. Sullivan. Ed. by J. Kathryn Josserand and Karen Dakin, eds.. 473-498. Oxford: BAR International Series 402. Part ii.
Canger, Una. 1990. Una nueva construccion en nahuatl: un prestamo o un cambio fundamental bajo la influencia del espanol. Homenaje a Jorge A. Suarez, Linguistica indoamericana e hispanica. Ed. by Beatriz Garzy Cuaron and Paulette Levy, eds.. 137-142. Mex
Canger, Una and Dakin, Karen. 1985. An inconspicuous basic split in Nahuatl. IJAL 51. 358-361.
Canger, Una, and Thomsen, Michael. 1992. CONDIP (Copenhagen Naguatl Dictionary Project). Diskette. : University of Copenhagen.
Canger, Una:An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl.in: Making Dictionaries. Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas s. 195-218. William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill, Pamela Munro. University of California Press, Berkely, Los Angeles, London 2002.
Canger, Una:Le rôle de Francis Whitfield. in: Louis Hjelmslev a cent´anni dalla nascita s. 229 - 243. Romeo Galassi & Margherita De Michiel. Imprimitur, Padova, Italien 2001.
Canger, Una: Mexicanero de la Sierra Madre Occidental. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México 180 s. El Colegio de México, Mexico 2001.
Canger, Una and Gregersen, Frands:Honoris causa. Tribute to Eli. in: To Honour Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague, vol. XXXI s. 23-53. Grønnum, Nina & Jørgen Rischel. C.A. Reitzel, København 2001.
Canger, Una: Review of: Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indigenas de México (Bartholomew, Lastra, and Manrique. International Journal of American Linguistics 66 (2), s. 269 - 271. 2000.
Canger, Una: Stress in Nahuatl of Durango. Whose Stress? in: Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geopgraphic Perspectives s. 373-386. E.H. Casad & T.L. Willett. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 2000.
Canger, Una: Review: J. Lockhart, C.M. Stafford Poole & Lisa Sousa (eds. and translators): The Story of Guadalupe. C.M. Stafford Poole: Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tidsskriftet Antropologi 41, s. 122-123. 2000.
Canger; Una: Náhuatl en durango-nayarit. in: IV Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste s. 129-149. Estrada, Fernández, Zarina et al. Editorial Unison, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 1998.
Canger, Una: El arte de Horacio Carochi. in: La descripión de las lenguas amerindias en la época colonial s. 59-74. Klaus Zimmermann. Instituto Ibero-Americano, Berlin 1997.
Canger; Una: Is there a passive in nahuatl. in: Content, expression and structure: studies in Danish functional grammar s. 1-15. Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, et al. John Benjamin's Publishing Co., Amsterdam 1996.
Canger Una: Artes pocos conocidos del nahauatl.La "découverte" des langues et des écritures d'Amérique. amerindia 19/20, s. 183-191. 1995.
Canger; Una: A book in an unwritten language. Acta Lingvistica Hafniensia vol 27 part 1, s. 79-89. 1994.
Canger; Una: Fieldwork and Field Methods. in: The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics s. 1219-1221. R.E. Asher. Pergamon Press, Oxford-New York-Seoul-Tokyo 1994.
Canger; Una: In Tequil de Morrales. Working with maguey. 135 s. C.A. Reitzels Boghandel A/S, København 1993.
Canger, Una: In tequil de morrales. El trabajo de morrales. 135 s. C.A. Reitzels Boghandel A/S, København 1993.
Canger, Una: Beskrivelse af minoritetssprog. Et sprogvidenskabeligt perspektiv. in: Minoriteter. En grundbog. Fjorten synsvinkler på minoritetsstudier s. 95-117. Helen Krag & Margit Warburg. Spektrum, Danmark 1992.
Canger Una: Lingvistikkens data. in: Lingvistisk festival. Lingvistkredsens 60 års fødselsdag 24. sept. 1991 s. 159-171. Frans Gregersen. Institut for almen og anvendt sprogvidenskab, København 1992.
Canger, Una: På rejse gennem det aztekisk sprog. in: Møde mellem to verdener. Amerikas opdagelse fra præcolumbiansk til nyeste tid s. 51-59. Tove Tybjerg & Hjørdis Nielsen. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, København 1992.
Canger, Una: Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project. Description and Manual. 85s. Inst. for Religionshistorie, København 1992.
Canger, Una: Una nueva construcción en náhuatl: un préstamo o un cambio fundamental bajo la influencia del español. in: Homenaje a Jorge A. Suárez. Lingüística indoamericana e hispánica s. 137-142. Beatriz Garza Curón & Paulette Levy. El Colegio de México, Mexico 1991.