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Richard Alan Rhodes (born 1946, Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American linguist specializing in indigenous languages of North America and Mexico. He has done extensive fieldwork in Ojibwe (an Algonquian language), in Métchif (a.k.a. Michif) (a mixed language), and Sayula Popoluca (a Mixe-Zoquean language). He is best known for his work on Algonquian which includes a major dictionary encompassing the two dialects Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe (Rhodes 1985) and many articles on points of syntax. He is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and has had visiting positions at the University of North Dakota, at the Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria, and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.