David Gil (linguist)

British linguist

David Gil
Born	(1953-11-01) 1 November 1953 (age 70)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Linguist

Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic work
Institutions	Max Planck Institute

David Gil (born 1 November 1953 in London, United Kingdom)^[1] is a linguist specializing in Indonesian and Malay linguistics. His research interests include Malayic comparative linguistics, syntax, semantics, linguistic typology, and language evolution.^[2]

Education

In 1972, he received a B.A. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his master's degree in linguistics in 1978 at the University of Tel Aviv. In 1982, he defended his PhD thesis Distributive Numerals at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1]

Publications

Riau Indonesian: A Language without Reference and Predication? (1999)^[1]
Colloquial Indonesian Dialects: How Real Are They? (2003)^[1]
The World Atlas of Language Structures (2005)^[1]
What is Riau Indonesian? (2009)
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable (2009)^[1]

Conferences

Gil regularly organises academic conferences on the languages of Indonesia, such as the International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ), and Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP).^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f CV Archived 2020-03-22 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "David Gil, Author at De Gruyter Conversations". De Gruyter Conversations. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
^ "INDOLING: Languages of the Indo-Pacific Region". Retrieved 2023-02-25.