Clark, Thomas L., 1939-1998

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) English professor Thomas L. Clark was born in Havre, Montana on July 10, 1939. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a master's degree in 1966 from the University of Utah. He received his doctorate at Ohio University in 1970, the same year he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and began his teaching career. Clark was a linguistics expert who authored gambling lexicons and wrote more than two dozen language articles. He was the author of five books and hosted "UNLV Focus," a program on UNLV news and events that aired on six local radio stations. Clark did consultation work for Las Vegas area law firms and testified as an expert witness on semantic analysis of language in contracts, patents, statutes, and gaming regulations. Clark was a member of the American Council of Learned Studies, American Dialect Society, American

Names Society, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Linguistics Society of America. In 1987, he won the Morris Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Arts and Letters at UNLV and was appointed the Barrick research professor in 1990. Thomas Lloyd Clark passed away on February 26, 1998.

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"UNLV linguistics expert Clark dies," Las Vegas Sun. Accessed January 4, 2019. https://lasvegassun.com/

news/1998/mar/09/unlv-professor-linguist-clark-dies/