Dr. John King

John Timothy King earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Portland State University in 1988, and his Master’s in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in 1995. He spent two years in the Nepalese Terai promoting a credit extension project for low-income individuals and has worked as an assistant buyer, a database manager, and a training coordinator. While in Nepal, he conducted fieldwork on Dhimal and Santhal, and for the Himalayan Languages Project he completed a grammar on Dhimal. At the moment, John lives in San Francisco and works as an analyst. His interests include development issues, the sub-Himalayan region, painting and the great outdoors.

Selected publications

King, John Timothy. 2008. A Grammar of Dhimal. Universiteit Leiden: doctoral dissertation.

King, John Timothy. 2001 b. ‘Emotionally charged discourse and archaic transitive agreement morphology in Dhimal’, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 34: 39-69.

King, John Timothy. 2001 a. ‘Affinal kin register in Dhimal’, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 24 (1): 163-182.

King, John Timothy. 1996. ‘Structural adjustment in Africa: Background, critique and alternatives’, Industrial Development Report (IDR), 12 (6).

King, John Timothy. 1994. ‘Picking up where Hodgson left off: Further notes on Dhimal’, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 17 (2): 121-132.