David Gil (linguist) explained

David Gil
Birth Date:	1 November 1953
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Linguist
Alma Mater:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Workplaces:	Max Planck Institute

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

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.^[2]

Publications

• Riau Indonesian: A Language without Reference and Predication? (1999)^[2]
• Colloquial Indonesian Dialects: How Real Are They? (2003)^[2]
• The World Atlas of Language Structures (2005)^[2]
• What is Riau Indonesian? (2009)
• Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable (2009)^[2]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Gil, Author at De Gruyter Conversations . 2020-01-15 . De Gruyter Conversations . en-US.
2. http://mpi-survey3.shh.mpg.de/gil/CV.pdf CV
3. Web site: INDOLING: Languages of the Indo-Pacific Region . 2023-02-25.