David Gil (linguist)

David Gil (born 1 November 1953 in London, United Kingdom) is a linguist specializing in Indonesian and Malay linguistics. His research interests include Malayic comparative linguistics, syntax, semantics, linguistic typology, and language evolution.[1]

For the association football player, see David Gil Mohedano.
David Gil
Born (1953-11-01) 1 November 1953
NationalityBritish
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic work
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute

Education

In 1972, he received a B.A. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his master's degree in linguistics in 1978 at the University of Tel Aviv. In 1982, he defended his PhD thesis Distributive Numerals at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

Publications
  • Riau Indonesian: A Language without Reference and Predication? (1999)[2]
  • Colloquial Indonesian Dialects: How Real Are They? (2003)[2]
  • The World Atlas of Language Structures (2005)[2]
  • What is Riau Indonesian? (2009)
  • Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable (2009)[2]

Conferences

Gil regularly organises academic conferences on the languages of Indonesia, such as the International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ), and Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP).[3]

References
  1. "David Gil, Author at De Gruyter Conversations". De Gruyter Conversations. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  2. CV.
  3. "INDOLING: Languages of the Indo-Pacific Region". Retrieved 2023-02-25.
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