David W. McAlpin
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McAlpin is best known for a series of articles attempting to demonstrate a relationship between the ancient Elamite language of Iran and the Dravidian languages of southern India, known as the Zagrosian Hypothesis. Whereas his Proto-Elamo-Dravidian: The Evidence and Its Implications focuses on cognation between Elamite and all of Dravidian, his most recent three papers capitalize on the fact that Brahui, initially part of the North Dravidian languages, is well known to be related to other Dravidian languages and aim to prove that Brahui is instead a descendant of an unattested eastern dialect of Elamite.
He was a member of the DravLing group, in which he presented a talk entitled “Morphology in Proto-Zagrosian” in 2022.
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Articles
- McAlpin, David (2022). "Modern Colloquial Eastern Elamite". Al-Burz. 14 (1): 64–123. doi:10.54781/abz.v14i1.370.
- McAlpin, David (2015). "Brahui and the Zagrosian Hypothesis". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 135 (3): 551–586. doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.135.3.551.
- McAlpin, David (2003). "Velars, Uvulars, and the North Dravidian Hypothesis". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 123 (3): 521–546. doi:10.2307/3217749.
- McAlpin, David (1998). "Coarticulations and Coronals in Malayalam". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 118 (3): 401–405. doi:10.2307/606069.
- McAlpin, David (1980). "Is Brahui Really Dravidian?". Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 6: 66–72. doi:10.3765/bls.v6i0.2113.
- McAlpin, David (1974). "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian". Language. 50 (1): 89–101. doi:10.2307/412012.
- McAlpin, David (1972). The Malayalam Verb Phrase in a Generative Matrical Framework. University of Wisconsin–Madison [Thesis Dissertation].
Books
- McAlpin, David (2004). A Core Vocabulary for Tamil. Chicago: Digital South Asia Library.
- McAlpin, David (1981). Proto-Elamo-Dravidian: The Evidence and Its Implications. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.