Peter K. Norquest

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Peter K. Norquest
Born
Peter Kristian Norquest

United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
ThesisA Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (2007)
Doctoral advisorJane H. Hill and Diana B. Archangeli
Academic work
DisciplineHistorical linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Main interestsKra–Dai languages
Notable worksA Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (2015)

Peter K. Norquest is an American linguist who specializes in Kra–Dai historical linguistics.

Education[]

Norquest attended the University of Arizona's Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics,[1] where he studied under Jane H. Hill and Diana B. Archangeli. As part of his doctoral research, he participated in a Fulbright fellowship in Hainan, China from 2003 to 2004, where he collected field data on various Hlai languages such as Nadou.[2] In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of Proto-Hlai.[3]

Career[]

After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2007, Norquest was employed as a postdoctoral researcher under J. Stephen Lansing at the University of Arizona, where he worked on quantitative comparative-historical linguistic reconstruction methods[4] and on the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara.[5]

From 2015 to 2016, Norquest was the principal investigator of Reconstructing Language Change and Variation, a National Science Foundation project that aims to provide a revised reconstruction of Proto-Kam–Sui.[6]

Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction of Proto-Kra–Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021).[7][8]

Monographs and chapters[]

  • Norquest, Peter (2015). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004300521. ISBN 978-90-04-30052-1.
  • Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages". The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 225–246. doi:10.1515/9783110558142-013.

Selected articles[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Alumni Peter Norquest Publishes new book. University of Arizona, 2016.
  2. ^ Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation of the Nadou Language of Hainan and the Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Award #0236674, National Science Foundation.
  3. ^ Norquest, Peter Kristian (2007). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (PhD dissertation). University of Arizona. hdl:10150/194203.
  4. ^ Downey, Sean S.; Hallmark, Brian; Cox, Murray P.; Norquest, Peter; Lansing, J. Stephen (2008). "Computational Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Developing the ALINE Distance for Comparative Historical Linguistic Reconstruction". Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Informa UK Limited. 15 (4): 340–369. doi:10.1080/09296170802326681. ISSN 0929-6174.
  5. ^ Tumonggor, Meryanne K; Karafet, Tatiana M; Downey, Sean; Lansing, J Stephen; Norquest, Peter; Sudoyo, Herawati; Hammer, Michael F; Cox, Murray P (2014). "Isolation, contact and social behavior shaped genetic diversity in West Timor". Journal of Human Genetics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 59 (9): 494–503. doi:10.1038/jhg.2014.62. ISSN 1434-5161. PMC 4521296.
  6. ^ Reconstructing Language Change and Variation. Award #0236674, National Science Foundation.
  7. ^ Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages". The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 225–246. doi:10.1515/9783110558142-013.
  8. ^ Norquest, Peter. 2020. A Hypothesis on the Origin of Preglottalized Sonorants in Kra-Dai. 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Vancouver: Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia. doi:10.14288/1.0389866

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