Graham Thurgood
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Graham Thurgood | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Influences | James Matisoff |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | California State University, Chico |
| Main interests | Chamic languages, languages of East Asia |
Graham Thurgood (Chinese: 杜冠明; pinyin: Dù Guānmíng) is an American 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.
