Graham Thurgood (Chinese: 杜冠明; pinyin: Dù Guānmíng) is a retired professor of linguistics at California State University, Chico.
Graham Thurgood | |
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Nationality | American |
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 |
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. 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.