Gérard Diffloth
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Gérard Diffloth (13 February 1939 – 14 August 2023) was a French linguist known as a leading specialist in the Austroasiatic languages. As a linguistics professor, he was employed at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA, after a dissertation on the Irula language. He was an advocate of immersion fieldwork for linguistic research.[1]
Diffloth was known for his widely cited 1974 and 2005 classifications of the Austroasiatic languages.
Diffloth was a consulting editor of the journal Mon-Khmer Studies.[2]
Gérard Diffloth died on 14 August 2023, at the age of 84, in Surin, Thailand.[3]
Selected bibliography
- Diffloth, Gérard. A History of the Khmer Language. [in preparation].
- Diffloth, Gérard. The Dvaravati Old Mon Language and Nyah Kur. Monic language studies, vol. 1. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Print. House, 1984. Template:ISBN
- Diffloth, Gérard. The Wa languages. Berkeley: Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, 1980.
- Diffloth, Gérard. An Appraisal of Benedict's Views on Austroasiatic and Austro-Thai Relations. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
- Diffloth, Gérard, and Zide, Norman H. Austroasiatic Number Systems. 1976.
- Diffloth, Gérard. Proto-Mon–Khmer Final Spirants. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
- Diffloth, Gérard. The Irula Language, a Close Relative of Tamil. Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1968.
References
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- ↑ Diffloth, Gérard. 2001. Les expressifs de Surin, et où cela conduit. Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient 88(1). 261–269. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers". Page 262
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- 1939 births
- 2023 deaths
- University of Chicago faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Linguists of Austroasiatic languages
- Dravidologists
- Historical linguists
- People from Châteauroux
- Linguists of Munda languages
- Linguists from France
- People from Indre