John_Lynch_(linguist)
John Lynch (linguist)
Australian linguist (1946–2021)
John Dominic Lynch (8 July 1946 in Sydney, Australia[2] – 25 May 2021 in Port Vila, Vanuatu) was a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He was an emeritus professor of Pacific Languages and the former Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu.