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Peter K. Norquest
Birth Name:	Peter Kristian Norquest
Birth Date:	31 August 1971
Birth Place:	Boise, Idaho, United States
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Linguist
Alma Mater:	University of Arizona
Doctoral Advisor:	Jane H. Hill and Diana B. Archangeli
Thesis Title:	A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
Thesis Url:	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194203
Thesis Year:	2007
Workplaces:	University of Arizona
Discipline:	Historical linguistics
Main Interests:	Kra–Dai languages
Notable Works:	A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (2015)

Peter K. Norquest (born August 31, 1971 in Boise, Idaho^[1]) 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,^[2] where he studied under Jane H. Hill and Diana B. Archangeli. As part of his doctoral research, he participated in a Fulbright fellowship in Hainan, China from 2003 to 2004, where he collected field data on various Hlai languages such as Nadou.^[3] In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of Proto-Hlai.^[4]

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^[5] and on the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara.^[6]

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.^[7]

Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction of Proto-Kra–Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021).^{[8] [9]}

Monographs and chapters

• Book: Norquest, Peter. A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Brill. 2015. 978-90-04-30052-1. 10.1163/9789004300521. 10150/194203 .
• Book: Norquest, Peter. The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages. De Gruyter. 2021. 10.1515/9783110558142-013. 225–246. 9783110558142 . 238672319 .

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. 2016. Revisiting the question of Austronesian implosives. Mother Tongue. 20 (In Memory of Harold Crane Fleming (1926-2015)).
• Norquest. Peter. 2013. A Revised Inventory of Proto Austronesian Consonants: Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic Evidence. Mon-Khmer Studies. 42. 102–126.
• Tumonggor. Meryanne K. Karafet. Tatiana M. Downey. Sean. Lansing. J Stephen. Norquest. Peter. Sudoyo. Herawati. Hammer. Michael F. Cox. Murray P. Isolation, contact and social behavior shaped genetic diversity in West Timor. Journal of Human Genetics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 59. 9. 2014. 1434-5161. 10.1038/jhg.2014.62. 494–503. 25078354. 4521296.
• Downey. Sean S.. Hallmark. Brian. Cox. Murray P.. Norquest. Peter. Lansing. J. Stephen. Computational Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Developing the ALINE Distance for Comparative Historical Linguistic Reconstruction. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Informa UK Limited. 15. 4. 2008. 0929-6174. 10.1080/09296170802326681. 340–369. 4849552 .
• 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". Mother Tongue Newsletter 31:25f.

See also

• Jerold A. Edmondson
• Li Fang-Kuei

External links

• Peter Norquest on ResearchGate
• Peter Norquest on Academia.edu
• Reconstruction of Proto Kam-Sui by Peter Norquest, hosted at the SEAlang Library (CC BY 4.0 license)

Notes and References

1. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/idahostatesman/name/peter-norquest-obituary?id=33292086 Peter Erik Norquest (1936 - 2022)
2. https://linguistics.arizona.edu/news/alumni-peter-norquest-publishes-new-book Alumni Peter Norquest Publishes new book
3. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236674 Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation of the Nadou Language of Hainan and the Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
4. Norquest . Peter Kristian . A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai . 2007 . PhD dissertation . University of Arizona . 10150/194203 . free . en.
5. Downey. Sean S.. Hallmark. Brian. Cox. Murray P.. Norquest. Peter. Lansing. J. Stephen. Computational Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Developing the ALINE Distance for Comparative Historical Linguistic Reconstruction. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Informa UK Limited. 15. 4. 2008. 0929-6174. 10.1080/09296170802326681. 340–369. 4849552 .
6. Tumonggor. Meryanne K. Karafet. Tatiana M. Downey. Sean. Lansing. J Stephen. Norquest. Peter. Sudoyo. Herawati. Hammer. Michael F. Cox. Murray P. Isolation, contact and social behavior shaped genetic diversity in West Timor. Journal of Human Genetics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 59. 9. 2014. 1434-5161. 10.1038/jhg.2014.62. 494–503. 25078354 . 4521296.
7. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461492 Reconstructing Language Change and Variation
8. Book: Norquest, Peter. The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages. De Gruyter. 2021. 10.1515/9783110558142-013. 225–246. 9783110558142 . 238672319 .
9. 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.