Isidore Dyen
Isidore Dyen (16 August 1913 in
The youngest son of a
He learned
At the same time, he began applying his comparative method to revise and elaborate phonological reconstructions that had earlier been published by Otto Dempwolff (1934–38). A series of articles such as "The Malayo-Polynesian word for ‘two’" (1947), "The Tagalog reflexes of Malayo-Polynesian D" (1947), "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Z" (1951), and "Dempwolff’s *R" (1953), eventually culminated in a monograph, The Proto-Malayo-Polynesian laryngeals (1953). His application of the same methods to his own new data from Chuukese led to a monograph On the history of the Trukese vowels (1949), which brilliantly demonstrated how the nine vowels of Chuukese had derived quite regularly from the four-vowel system Dempwolff had reconstructed for Proto-Austronesian.[2]
Works
- Dyen, Isidore; Kruskal, Joseph B; Black, Paul (1992), An Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment, ISBN 978-0-87169-825-4
Notes
- ^ a b c Nothofer (2009)
- ^ a b c d Blust (2009)
References
- Blust, Robert (2009), "In Memoriam, Isidore Dyen, 1913-2008", S2CID 143874825
- Nothofer, Bernd (2009), "Obituary: Isidore Dyen", LINGUIST List, 20 (78)
- "In Memoriam: Isidore Dyen, Was a Specialist in Austronesian Languages", Yale Bulletin, 2009, archived from the original on 2010-07-09, retrieved 2009-06-10
- Sharpe, Margaret; Dyen, Doris (2009), "Obituary of Isidore Dyen", Language Log
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