Ronald Trail (Summer Institute of Linguistics)

updated: 16 May 1995

Ronald L. Trail and Gail H. Trail
Linguist and Ethno-historian
Summer Institute of Linguistics

Mailing Address:
1132, Street 41
G-10/4, Islamabad
Pakistan

phones: 92-51-250983
fax:    92-51-250983
email:  Ron@trail.isb.imran.pk

description of work:

I am currently working on a Kalasha dictionary and grammar.  Kalasha is an
Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 3000 speakers in the Chitral District
of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan.  Kalasha is grouped with a
small sub-group of languages called Dardic which includes Kashmiri, Shina,
and Khowar. I have written a paper called, "A Rhetorical Stucture Analysis
of a Kalasha Narrative".  It is co-authored with Austin Hale and should be
printed shortly. So RST analysis is one of my interests.  Other than that
I am interested in lexical relations in the dictionary as being written up
by Dr. Joseph Grimes.  I am trying to incorporate this model into my
dictionary. 

My wife Gail is working on the historical origins of the Kalasha people
and their religion.  She has a paper that will be coming out soon in a
book entitled, Proceedings of the IInd International Hindukush Cultural
Conference, by Oxford Press.