For her work on the phonology and morphology of the Sekani language, Sharon Hargus received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1983, This led to the publication of The Lexical Phonology of Sekani (New York: Garland Publishing, 1988). Since 1986 she has worked on the Babine-Witsuwit'en, especially the Witsuwit'en dialect, and on Deg-Hit'an in Alaska. A teacher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington since 1985, Sharon Hargus has also studied Mapudungan (the native language of the Mapuche people of Argentina and Chile), Sahaptin, and Spanish.

BOOKS:

Hargus, Sharon. The Lexical Phonology of Sekani (New York: Garland Publishing, 1988).

Hargus, Sharon. Witsuwit'en Grammar: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology (UBC Press 2008).

[BCBW 2008] "First Nations"