Peter K. Norquest (born August 31, 1971 in Boise, Idaho) 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, where he studied under

Jane H. Hill Frances Jane Hassler Hill (October 27, 1939 – November 2, 2018) was an American anthropologist and linguist who worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family and anthropological linguistics of North Ameri ...

and Diana B. Archangeli. As part of his doctoral research, he participated in a

Fulbright fellowship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

in Hainan, China from 2003 to 2004, where he collected field data on various

Hlai languages The Hlai languages () are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan in China by the Hlai people, not to be confused with the colloquial name for the Leizhou branch of Min Chines ...

such as Nadou. In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of

Proto-Hlai Proto-Hlai is the linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages. Proto-Hlai reconstructions include those of Matisoff (1988), Thurgood (1991), Wu (2000), Ostapirat (2004), and Norquest (2007). Phonology Peter K. Norques ...

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 and on the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara. 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. Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction of Proto-Kra–Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021).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.

Monographs and chapters

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Selected articles

*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. * * *Norquest, Peter (2005). "Word structure in Chamic: prosodic alignment versus segmental faithfulness". In Grant, A. and Sidwell, P. editors, ''Chamic and Beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages''. PL-569:147-188. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. *Norquest, Peter (1998). "Greenberg's Visit to Arizona"

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References

External links

Peter Norquest
on

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Peter Norquest
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Reconstruction of Proto Kam-Sui
by Peter Norquest, hosted at the SEAlang library
CC BY 4.0
license) {{DEFAULTSORT:Norquest, Peter K. Living people 1971 births People from Boise, Idaho People from Tucson, Arizona University of Arizona alumni Linguists from the United States Historical linguists Linguists of Southeast Asian languages Linguists of Austro-Tai languages Linguists of Kra–Dai languages Linguists of Austronesian languages Paleolinguists