R.David Paul Zorc- Doctor of Philosophy
- Language Research Center, Hyattsville, MD - retired
R.David Paul Zorc
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Language Research Center, Hyattsville, MD - retired
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Introduction
My work on the genetic relationships of the Philippine languages has reached a new milestone. Interested colleagues can look through 6,700 etymologies of all major subgroups, macro-groups and micro-groups at . This survey is meant to compliment Blust's online ACD the goal of which is the highest levels of Austronesian reconstructions (PAN, PMP, PWMP, PPH, POC) in that attention is paid to the subgroupings within Luzon, Mindanao, and the Bisayas, and often some of the individual languages therein.
Current institution
Language Research Center, Hyattsville, MD - retired
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October 1986 - August 2011
Independent Researcher
Position
- Senior Linguist
Education
September 1969 - June 1975
Publications
Publications (30)
Literature traced back the etymology of the place name Sámar to Samal ‘Sea Gypsies’ or samad
‘wound’ (Kobak & Gutierrez 2004, 30, note 23). However, this study offers another hypothesis
on the origin of the place name Samar. Using the Regularity Hypothesis and comparative
method in historical linguistics, this paper explores the other “best gues...
I have been developing an ETYMOLOGIES Excel Spreadsheet covering etymologies in several individual Austronesian & Malayo-Polynesian and many Philippine languages. These are available in independent subdirectories (subfolders) at:
https://zorc.net/RDZorc/
The book presents the most wide-ranging treatment of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and...
Most scholars seem to agree that the Malayo-Polynesian expansion left Taiwan around 3,000 BCE and virtually raced south through the Philippines in less than one millenium. From southern Mindanao migrations went westward through Borneo and on to Indonesia, Malaysia, and upwards into the Asian continent ("Malayo"-), and some others went south through...
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According to the SIL synopsis, Piakandatu ami—in honor of—Dr. Howard P. McKaughan is a collection of 42 papers celebrating McKaughan's distinguished career as a linguist, covering time spent in Mexico, the Philippines, Hawai'i, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Thailand, and Sabah, Malaysia, as well as the establishment of linguistic departments at the Un...
Review (mostly favorable) of Lynch, John, ed. 2003. Issues in Austronesian Historical Phonology. PL 550. Canberra: Paci²c Linguistics. vii + 227 pp. ISBN 0- 85883503-7 by R. David Zorc. 2006. Oceanic Linguistics 45.2:505–516.
Some of the world's lesser known linguistic systems have discourse features that are not in accord with the usual topic-vs -comment splits, whatever contents are ascribed to either (Chafe 1976; Li and Thompson 1976). The data and observations presented here should be of value in revising or redefining terminology and concepts relating to discourse...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 373-383). Microfilm.
Provides evidence for a Western Bisayan subgroup including: Kinaray-a, Pandan, Dispoholnon, Bulalakawnon, Datagnon, Semirara, Kuyonen, and Aklanon based on lexicostatistics, functor analysis, and innovations.
