Peter K. Norquest

Peter K. Norquest (born August 31, 1971 in Boise, Idaho[1]) is an American linguist who specializes in Kra–Dai historical linguistics.

Peter K. Norquest
Born
Peter Kristian Norquest

(1971-08-31) August 31, 1971
Boise, Idaho, 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)

Education

Norquest attended the University of Arizona's Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics,[2] 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.[3] In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of Proto-Hlai.[4]

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[5] and on the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara.[6]

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.[7]

Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction of Proto-Kra–Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021).[8][9]

Monographs and chapters

  • Norquest, Peter (2015). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004300521. hdl:10150/194203. 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. ISBN 9783110558142. S2CID 238672319.

Selected articles

See also

References

  1. Peter Erik Norquest (1936 - 2022). Legacy.com.
  2. Alumni Peter Norquest Publishes new book. University of Arizona, 2016.
  3. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation of the Nadou Language of Hainan and the Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Award #0236674, National Science Foundation.
  4. Norquest, Peter Kristian (2007). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (PhD dissertation). University of Arizona. hdl:10150/194203.
  5. 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. S2CID 4849552.
  6. 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. PMID 25078354.
  7. Reconstructing Language Change and Variation. Award #1461492, National Science Foundation.
  8. 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. ISBN 9783110558142. S2CID 238672319.
  9. 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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