Keith McCune


Keith Michael McCune is a linguist, novelist, and translator. His study of Indonesian roots has been called "perhaps the most detailed and complete single work in the field of phonosemantics,"
He has written a novel that retells the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin earned praise from Michael Boyer, the official Piper Piper of Hamelin, Germany.

Biography

McCune was born in 1955 to Frederick and Marguerite McCune. He attended college at the University of Virginia and went on to get his doctorate in linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he met Grace Osborn, who was also pursuing a doctorate in linguistics and later married him.
He and Grace spent five years in the Philippines, making translations into Ibanag. In 1992, they moved to Russia, working in Moscow, Makhachkala, and Krasnodar, then moved to Odessa, Ukraine. In 2009, they returned to the Philippines as translation consultants.
Keith and Grace have three children, Adam, Arwen, and Eden.

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