Norman H. Zide (born 1928) is an American linguist and specialist in the Munda languages. Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He taught Hindi and Urdu at the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilization at the Department of Linguistics for four decades and published several books and articles on the subject. However, his greater fame lies in his contributions to the Munda languages and to Austroasiatic linguistics in general. He has also done considerable work as a translator, especially of poetry. In The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, he did or assisted in translations of poetry from both North Indian and Austroasiatic languages. His undergraduate education was at Columbia University where he majored in French. In the 1950s he began to do graduate work in South Asian languages and linguistics. In India, he has done linguistic fieldwork in many places, but especially in Orissa and Bihar, where the numbers of tribal speakers are the highest. Bibliography Anderson, Gregory D.S. and Norman H. Zide. "Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb". In Historical Linguistics 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. 13-3013–30. Anderson, Gregory D.S. & Norman H. Zide. 2002. "Issues in Proto-Munda and Proto-Austroasiatic Nominal Derivation: The Bimoraic Constraint" In pers from the 10th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Marlys A. Macken (ed.). Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University. (South East Asian Studies Program, Monograph Series Press). 55-74 George Cardona and Norman H. Zide (eds). Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald: on the occasion of his seventieth birthday Tübingen: G. Narr, 1987. Diffloth, G. & N. Zide. 1992. "Austro-Asiatic languages." In: William Bright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. I:137-42 Pinnow, Heinz-Jürgen. "A Comparative Study of the Verb in the Munda Languages." In Studies in Comparative Austroasiatic Linguistics, Norman H. Zide (ed.). The Hague et al.: Mouton (Indo-Iranian Monographs, V), 1966. 96-193 Stampe, D.L. & Norman Herbert Zide. "The Place of Kharia–Juang in the Munda family" IL, Emeneau Sastipurti Volume. 1968. 370-77 Zide, Norman H. (ed.). Studies in Comparative Austroasiatic Linguistics. The Hague: Mouton, 1966. Zide, Norman Herbert. 1958. "Some Korku kinship terms in Proto-Munda" Bulletin of the Tribal Research Institute Chhindwara (MP), I.4/II.1:9-21 Zide, Norman Herbert. 1965. Gutob–Remo vocalism and glottalized vowels in Proto-Munda” Milner et al. (eds.). Indo-Pacific Linguistic Studies (Lingua 14), 43-53 Zide, Norman Herbert & Michael Shapiro. "Short combining forms of Munda nouns." Mimeographed paper