Dr. Gerard Tolsma
In April 1993, Gerard Jacobus Tolsma (born 17 August 1968 in De Bilt) joined the Himalayan Languages Project and began conducting linguistic field work amongst the Kulung in Solu Khumbu district in eastern Nepal. On the 2nd of June 1999, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled A Grammar of Kulung at Leiden. The grammar was published in a commercial edition in 2006 by Brill.
In November 2000, he worked for Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, a programme funded by the Japanese Ministery of Education, Science, Sport and Culture, so that for a brief spate he returned to Nepal to conduct linguistic research among the Satar, a Munda ethnic group speaking an Austroasiatic language.
Selected publications
Tolsma, Gerard. 2006. A Grammar of Kulung (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Vol. 4). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
Tolsma, Gerard. 1999 b. A Grammar of Kulung. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden: unpublished doctoral dissertation, 2 June 1999.
Tolsma, Gerard. 1999 a. ‘Internal reconstruction and comparative evidence of the long vowels in Kulung’, pp. 495-497 in Yogendra Prasad Yadava and Warren W. Glover, eds., Topics in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.
Tolsma, Gerard. 1997. 'The verbal morphology of Kulung', pp. 103-117 in David Bradley, ed., Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 14: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas (Pacific Linguistics, A-86). Canberra: Australian National University.
Tolsma, Gerard. 1996. ‘Descriptive Linguistics in the Himalayas of Nepal: The Kulung: Language and Tradition’, IIAS Newsletter 10, Autumn 1996, p. 14.
Tolsma, Gerard. 1994. ‘A study in Kulung verbal morphology’, pp. 571-580 in Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.