Paul Proulx

Paul Proulx (21 November 1942 – 5 December 2005) was an American-born Canadian linguist specializing in Algonquian and Algic studies.

Paul Proulx
Born	21 November 1942 Biddeford, Maine, U.S.
Died	5 December 2005
Education	B.A. in Spanish from Amherst College, Master's degree in Linguistics from Cornell University, Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University
Occupation(s)	Linguist, Anthropological Linguist
Known for	Research on Algonquian and Algic languages

Biography

Paul Martin Proulx was born in Maine in 1942 and completed his bachelor's degree at Amherst College with a major in Spanish in 1965.^[1][2] Proulx pursued a master's degree in linguistics at Cornell University in 1967, after which he began studying the Huayla dialect of the Quechua language.^[3] During his time researching in Peru, he co-authored Gramática del Quechua de Huaylas, published in Lima with Augusto Escribens in 1970.^[3] After returning to North America, he earned a doctorate in linguistics, again at Cornell.^[1] He continued to publish many papers throughout his career, focusing on the Algonquian languages and the reconstruction of Proto-Algic.^[4] He taught at St. Francis Xavier University and Brandon University, living in Nova Scotia to be near the Mi'kmaq people and their language.^[5]

Proulx passed away on 5 December, 2005, of leukemia.^[1]

Selected works

• 1970: Gramática del Quechua del Huaylas (with Antonio Escribens). National University of San Marcos.
• 1977: "Connective Vowels in Proto-Algonquian." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 43.
• 1978: Micmac Inflection (Ph.D. thesis). Cornell University.
• 1980: "The Linguistic Evidence on Algonquian Prehistory." Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 22.
• 1984-1992: "Proto-Algic (I-IV)." International Journal of American Linguistics.
• 1985: "The Semantics of Yurok Terms Referring to Water." Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 27.
• 1988: "Algic Color Terms." Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 30.
• 1989: "A Sketch of Blackfoot Historical Phonology." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 55.
• 2003: "The Evidence on Algonquian Genetic Grouping: A Matter of Relative Chronology." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 45.
• 2005: "Reduplication in Proto‐Algonquian and Proto‐Central‐Algonquian." International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 71.