Gérard Diffloth

Gérard Diffloth (born Châteauroux, 1939) is a retired Austro-Asiatic Languages professor, formerly of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA, after a dissertation on the Irula language.

Diffloth is known for his widely cited 1974 and 2005 Austro-Asiatic languages' classifications.

He is a Consulting Editor of the Mon-Khmer Studies Journal.[1]

[edit] Partial bibliography

Diffloth, Gérard, and Dennis, John Value. Socio-Cultural Matters in the Upland Watersheds of Southern Laos: A Personal Report. 1999.
Diffloth, Gérard. The Ethnic Situation in the Central Highlands. 1998.
Diffloth, Gérard. Report to Halcrow. 1995.
Diffloth, Gérard. A History of the Khmer Language. [199-].
Diffloth, Gérard. The Dvaravati Old Mon Language and Nyah Kur. Monic language studies, vol. 1. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Print. House, 1984. ISBN 9745637831
Diffloth, Gérard. The Wa languages. Berkeley : Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, 1980.
Diffloth, Gérard. An Appraisal of Benedict's Views on Austroasiatic and Austro-Thai Relations. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
Diffloth, Gérard, and Zide, Norman H. Austroasiatic Number Systems. 1976.
Diffloth, Gérard. Proto-Mon-Khmer Final Spirants. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1976.
Diffloth, Gérard. The Irula Language, a Close Relative of Tamil. Thesis--University of California, Los Angeles, 1968.