Ilia Peiros
Ilia Iosifovich Peiros is a Russian linguist who specializes in the historical linguistics of East Asia. Peiros is a well-known scholar in the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics, known for its work on long-range comparative linguistics. Peiros is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, United States and was also a former faculty member at the University of Melbourne.
Education
In 1971, Peiros graduated from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University. In 1976, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on Sino-Tibetan consonantism.Career
In the article "An Austric Macrofamily: some considerations", Peiros proposed that Austro-Tai, Miao-Yao, and Austroasiatic were all related to each other as part of the Austric language macrofamily.In 1996, together with Sergei Starostin, he published a 6-volume comparative dictionary of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
Peiros also does research on Amerindian historical linguistics as part of the Evolution of Human Languages project, led by Georgiy Starostin.
Selected publications
- Peiros, Ilia. 1998. . Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
- Comrie, Bernard and Ilia Peiros. 2000. "." In The Fifth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, Ho Chi Minh City, 89-117. Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
- Peiros, Ilia. 1997. "." In Mon-Khmer Studies, 27: 233–248.
- Jukes, Anthony and Ilia Peiros. 1996. "." In The Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Thailand, 827–849. Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University.
- Peiros, Ilia. 1996. "." In The Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Thailand, 883–894. Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University.