Gérard Diffloth

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Gérard Diffloth
Born(1939-02-13)13 February 1939
Châteauroux, France
Died14 August 2023(2023-08-14) (aged 84)
Surin, Thailand
NationalityFrench
OccupationLinguist
PartnerWongjaroen "Som" Somruan[1]
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Academic work
InstitutionsEFEO
Main interestsAustroasiatic languages

Gérard Diffloth (13 February 1939 – 14 August 2023) was a French linguist known as a leading specialist in the Austroasiatic languages. As a linguistics professor, he was employed at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA, after a dissertation on the Irula language. He was an advocate of immersion fieldwork for linguistic research.[2]

Diffloth was known for his widely cited 1974 and 2005 classifications of the Austroasiatic languages.

Diffloth was a consulting editor of the journal Mon-Khmer Studies.[3]

Gérard Diffloth died on 14 August 2023, at the age of 84, in Surin, Thailand.[4]

Selected bibliography

  • Diffloth, Gérard. A History of the Khmer Language. .
  • Diffloth, Gérard. The Dvaravati Old Mon Language and Nyah Kur. Monic language studies, vol. 1. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Print. House, 1984. ISBN 974-563-783-1
  • Diffloth, Gérard. The Wa languages. Berkeley: Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, 1980.
  • Diffloth, Gérard. An Appraisal of Benedict's Views on Austroasiatic and Austro-Thai Relations. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
  • Diffloth, Gérard, and Zide, Norman H. Austroasiatic Number Systems. 1976.
  • Diffloth, Gérard. Proto-Mon–Khmer Final Spirants. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
  • Diffloth, Gérard. The Irula Language, a Close Relative of Tamil. Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1968.

References

  1. ^ Sidwell, Paul, ed. (2024). Austroasiatic Linguistics, in honour of Gérard Diffloth (1939-2023) (PDF). Chiang Mai: Myanmar Center, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University.
  2. ^ Diffloth, Gérard. 2001. Les expressifs de Surin, et où cela conduit. Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient 88(1). 261–269. doi:10.3406/befeo.2001.3516 Page 262
  3. ^ Mon–Khmer Studies Journal editors Archived 7 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "Death of Gérard Diffloth (1939 – 2023)". EFEO. Retrieved 27 August 2023.