R. David Zorc | |
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Born | Reynold Duane Zorc (changed legally in 1963) 1943 United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Linguist |
Spouse | Nellie Reyes Prado Zorc |
Children | David Nicolas Prado Zorc |
Parent(s) | Joseph John Zorc, Anne Gertrude Slana Zorc |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Cornell University |
Thesis | The Bisayan dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and reconstruction (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles F. Hockett |
Other advisors | John U. Wolff |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Institutions | Language Research Center &Dunwoody Press,Hyattsvile,MD |
Main interests | Austronesian linguistics,historical linguistics |
Website | zorc |
R. David Zorc (also R. David Paul Zorc; [1] born 1943 [2] ) is an American linguist primarily known for his work on Austronesian languages and linguistics,particularly the Philippine languages. [3] [4]
Zorc graduated cum laude with an A.B. in Philosophy from Georgetown University in 1965. From 1965 to 1969,he was a Peace Corps member in the Philippines. In 1971,he obtained an M.A. in Linguistics &Anthropology from Cornell University,and graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1975. [5] His doctoral dissertation was a comprehensive survey of the Bisayan languages. [6]
From 1976 to 1986,Zorc was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Australian Linguistics (SAL). [7]
Zorc has contributed to major works on Austronesian historical linguistics such as the Comparative Austronesian Dictionary (1995),to which he contributed an index of Proto-Austronesian reconstructions. [8] He has also published various dictionaries such as the Tagalog slang dictionary (1991). [9] [10]
Other than Austronesian languages,Zorc has also published works on Armenian,Nguni languages,and Cushitic languages. [11]
Zorc currently lives in Wheaton,Maryland. [5]
The following are some of Zorc's works.
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