Tom Dutton (linguist)
Tom Dutton (born Thomas Edward Dutton on 10 May 1935 in Dayboro, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian linguist specialising in Papuan languages (particularly the Southeast Papuan languages) and other languages of Papua New Guinea. Early life. Thomas Edward Dutton was born on 10 May 1935 in Dayboro (near Brisbane) in Queensland, Australia. Dutton's paternal grandparents were English, his maternal grandparents were German. He the eldest of five children and had two brothers and two sisters. His father, Lewis (Ted) Dutton, was the Head Teacher of Mayfield State School. In 1936, Lewis Dutton was transferred to a  rural two-teacher school in Gooburrum, located near Bundaberg, where he worked for 37 years. As a result, Dutton spent most of his childhood in Bundaberg. Education and career. In June 1957, he was Officer-in-Charge (Head Teacher) at Rigo Intermediate School, in Central District (now Central Province), Papua New Guinea, located east of Port Moresby. In 1959, he was promoted to Area Education Officer in Port Moresby Subdistrict (now the National Capital District) and was in charge of Administration and Mission Schools from Manumanu to Gaire. In 1962, he obtained his BA in English from the University of  Queensland. From 1963 to 1965, Dutton was a Research Fellow at the Queensland Speech Survey in the Department of English at the University of Queensland. While working as a researcher, he studied for a master's degree in English linguistics. He finished his PhD dissertation at the University of Queensland in 1969 and obtained a research fellowship at the Research School for Pacific Studies (RSPacS) that same year. Dutton worked as a researcher at the Australian National University (ANU) from 1969 to 1974, where he was a specialist on Southeast Papuan languages. His research colleagues at the ANU included Donald  Laycock, a specialist in languages of the Sepik region; Clemens Voorhoeve, a specialist in West Papuan languages; and Darrell Tryon, a specialist in the languages of eastern Island Melanesia. He was Professor at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1975 to 1977 and returned to Australia afterwards. Dutton was the managing editor of Pacific Linguistics from 1987 to 1996. He retired in 1997, but continued to publish works in linguistics. In 2010, Dutton published a book on the reconstruction of Proto-Koiarian. Personal life. In 1962, Dutton married Corinne Scott from Nanango, near Kingaroy. Publications. The following are Dutton 's works published by Pacific Linguistics.