Paul Proulx

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

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. 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. During his time researching in Peru, he co-authored Gramática del Quechua de Huaylas, published in Lima with Augusto Escribens in 1970. After returning to North America, he earned a doctorate in linguistics, again at Cornell. He continued to publish many papers throughout his career, focusing on the Algonquian languages and the reconstruction of Proto-Algic. He taught at St. Francis Xavier University and Brandon University, living in Nova Scotia to be near the Mi'kmaq people and their language.

Proulx died on 5 December, 2005, of leukemia.

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.