Patience Epps

Patience Louise Epps
TitleProfessor
AwardsKenneth L. Hale Award
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisA Grammar of Hup (2008)
Doctoral advisorEve Danziger
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineLanguage documentation, linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, ethnolinguistics, language contact, language change
School or traditionFunctional-typological linguistics
InstitutionsThe University of Texas at Austin
WebsiteUT Faculty Page

Patience Louise "Pattie" Epps is an American linguist, serving as a professor and researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main research focus is on the Naduhup language family, which consists of four extant languages in the Amazon.