Graham Thurgood
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Graham Thurgood | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Influences | James Matisoff |
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| Institutions | California State University, Chico |
| Main interests | Chamic languages, languages of East Asia |
Graham Thurgood (Chinese: 杜冠明; pinyin: Dù Guānmíng) is a retired professor of linguistics at California State University, Chico.[1]
Thurgood graduated with a Ph.D. in linguistics from University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under James Matisoff.
Thurgood's areas of specialization include tonogenesis, historical linguistics, language contact, and second language acquisition.[2] Thurgood has reconstructed Chamic (Austronesian), the Hlai languages (Kra-Dai and Kam-Sui), and parts of Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan).
Thurgood's tone work includes the reconstruction of tone in Chamic, internal reconstruction of tone in Jiamao, and a substantial article on tonogenesis in general.
Publications
[edit]- Graham Thurgood (1999). From ancient Cham to modern dialects: two thousand years of language contact and change : with an appendix of Chamic reconstructions and loanwords. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2131-9. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
- Graham Thurgood. (1999). From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change: With an Appendix of Chamic Reconstructions and Loanwords. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, No. 28, pp. i, iii-vii, ix-xiii, xv-xvii, 1–259, 261–275, 277–397, 399–407.
- Graham Thurgood. (1992). The aberrancy of the Jiamao dialect of Hlai: speculation on its origins and history. Southeast Asian Linguistics Society I, Edited by Martha Ratliff and Eric Schiller. Tempe: Arizona State University Southeast Asian Studies Publication Program. pp. 417–433.
References
[edit]- ^ "Linguistics Professor Emeritus Recognized for Internationally Recognized Scholarship", Chico State Today, 2024-04-27, retrieved 2024-05-03
- ^ Graham Thurgood, The Department of English, California State University, Chico, archived from the original on 2024-02-22, retrieved 2024-02-22
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