Lawrence Andrew Reid (often known as Laurie Reid) is an American linguist who specializes in

Austronesian languages The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken ...

, particularly on the

morphosyntax In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, wh ...

and

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

of the

Philippine languages The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (language ...

Education

Reid graduated from the

University of Hawaiʻi The University of Hawaiʻi System is a public college and university system in Hawaii. The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, ...

] with a Master of Arts in Linguistics in 1964 and a doctorate in 1966. He also studied music at the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury (UC; ; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbur ...

Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

, and theology at Commonwealth Bible College in

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, Australia.

Career

Reid was a long-time lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi. He has held research and teaching positions in institutions throughout the Pacific region, including at the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

Thammasat University Thammasat University (TU; ; , ) is a public university, public research university in Thailand with campuses in the Tha Phra Chan area of Bangkok, Rangsit, Pattaya and Lampang Province. , Thammasat University has over 39,000 students enrolled in ...

, and (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa) at the

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , often referred to as TUFS, is a specialist National university, national research university in Fuchū, Tokyo, Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan. TUFS is primarily devoted to foreign language, international relations, international affairs and area studies. ...

. He also written many papers on

Formosan languages The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not form a single subfamily of Austronesian but rather up to nine separate primary subfamili ...

Publications

Reid has published numerous books, articles, reviews, and translations. His books include ''An Ivatan Syntax''; ''Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph and Discourse Structures''; ''Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies''; ''Bontok-English Dictionary''; and ''Guinaang Bontok Texts''. *''An Ivatan syntax'' (1966) *''Central

Bontoc Bontoc may refer to: * Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines * Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Philippines * Bontoc people, an ethnic group from Central Luzon, Philippines * Bontoc language, spoken by the Bontoc people {{disambig, geo Language and ...

: Sentence, paragraph and discourse'' (1970) *''Philippine Minor Languages'' (1971) *'' Bontok-English dictionary, with English-Bontok finder list'' (1976) *''Philippine linguistics: The State of the art: 1970–1980'' (1981) *''The demise of Proto-Philippines'' (1982) *''Guinaang Bontok texts ''(1992) *''Morphological evidence for

Austric The Austric languages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as Kra–Dai and Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Sou ...

'' (1994) *''Guide to Isinay Orthography'' (2016)

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Linguists of Austronesian languages Linguists from the United States Linguists of Philippine languages University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty Historical linguists {{US-linguist-stub