American linguist
James T. Collins (born 1946 in Chicago) is an American linguist who works on comparative linguistics, lexicography, and sociolinguistics. Collins specializes primarily in Austronesian languages.
Education.
Collins received his B.A. at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Illinois in 1968, MA in linguistics at the University of Chicago in 1975, a Ph.D at the University of Chicago in 1980. In 1984, he was a senior researcher at Cornell University. He also taught Indonesian at the University of Texas at El Paso, Leiden University, Goethe University Frankfurt, International Institute of Asian Studies (Netherlands), and National University of Malaysia. He later became Professor of Malay-Polynesian Linguistics in 1995. He is also Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University.
Research.
Collins did extensive research on the languages of Indonesia, especially in the regions of Maluku, Kalimantan, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sarawak. Some of Collins' works include publications on the languages of Borneo (1990), Java, Bali, Sri Lanka (1995), Sumatra, and Eastern Indonesia (1996).
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