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R. David Paul Zorc

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dzorc1@comcast.net
Senior Linguist, Retired,
Language Research Center,
Hyattsville MD


First] [Middle] [Last] Name: R. David  Paul  Zorc
Email: dzorc1@comcast.net
Password: dzorc987

[Position: Senior Linguist, Retired
           Language Research Center and Dunwoody Press

Bio: After four years with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Philippines (1965-69), R. David Zorc received his Ph.D. from Cornell University (1975) in linguistics and southeast Asian anthropology. He worked for two years (1974-75) in the Austronesian Genetic Classification Project directed by Prof. Isidore Dyen at Yale University and then for ten years (1976-86) with the School of Australian Linguistics. He was a Senior Linguist with the Language Research Center of McNeil Technologies and Dunwoody Press from 1986 through his retirement in 2011. He has a broad list of publications in five language families: Austronesian (Aklanon grammar & dictionary, Tagalog reader & slang dictionary, Hiligaynon reader, Cebuano reader, Ilokano reader), Australian (Yolngu-Matha dictionary), Indo-European (Eastern Armenian reader, grammar & dictionary), Cushitic (Somali textbook & dictionary, Oromo reader & grammar), and Bantu (Sotho reader & grammar and Rwanda-Rundi reader and comparative grammar). He lives in Wheaton, Maryland with his wife of 50 years (Nellie Reyes Prado) and their son (David Nicolas).

Testimonial: I had done only a bit of preliminary research on Bantayanon for my Ph.D. dissertation (The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines: Subgrouping and Reconstruction - 1975 - Cornell). I had enough data to make some judgments that it was a Central Bisayan speech variety related to Waray, Hiligaynon, and Romblomanon. It was Jarrette Allen who re-enlightened my interest in this magnificent language over the past few years. I am therefore keen and extremely willing to cooperate in making his dictionary a worthy and lasting contribution to Philippine linguistics.