Richard Compton

Richard Compton is a professor of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language and his research examines the structure and properties of Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun. His teaching includes courses on Indigenous languages of North America, linguistic fieldwork, introductory linguistics courses, and courses on the description of Inuktitut.