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Gary F. Simons

Gary F. Simons is a Research Associate with SIL International (Dallas, TX) and Executive Editor of the Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/). He is also Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at Dallas International University. Previously he has served in SIL as Director of Academic Computing (1986-1999), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (1999-2009), and Chief Research Officer (2010-2024). Early in his career he was involved in language development activities in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.  More recently he has contributed to the development of cyberinfrastructure for linguistics as co-founder of the Open Language Archives Community (http://www.language-archives.org/) and co-developer of the ISO 639-3 standard of three-letter identifiers for all known languages of the world (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/). He holds a PhD in general linguistics (with minor emphases in computer science and classics) from Cornell University. He is an author or editor of over 100 publications (http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/).

Published Books

Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment
Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment
Gary F. Simons and Stephen Watters
Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World
Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World
J. Stephen Quakenbush and Gary F. Simons
Ecological Perspectives on Language Endangerment
Ecological Perspectives on Language Endangerment
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons, Editors
Sustaining Language Use
Sustaining Language Use
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons
A Threefold Purpose
A Threefold Purpose
Edited by Gary F. Simons

Published Translations

Sosteniendo el uso de idiomas
Sosteniendo el uso de idiomas
M. Paul Lewis and Gary F. Simons

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