Keith McCune

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Keith Michael McCune
Born	December 23, 1955 United States
Occupation	Novelist, linguist, churchplanter

Official website http://www.ratsofhamelin.com

Keith Michael McCune is a linguist, novelist, and churchplanter. His study of Indonesian roots has been called "perhaps the most detailed and complete single work in the field of phonosemantics,"^[1] while his retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin earned praise from Michael Boyer, the official Piper Piper of Hamelin, Germany.^[2]

1 Biography
2 Publications
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] 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,^[3] where he met Grace Osborn, who was also pursuing a doctorate in linguistics and later married him.

He and Grace joined The Evangelical Alliance Mission and spent five years in the Philippines, translating part of Genesis into Ibanag. In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they moved to Russia, where they planted churches in Moscow, Makhachkala, and Krasnodar.^[4] They are now continuing their ministry in Odessa, Ukraine.^[5]

Keith and Grace have three children, Adam, Arwen, and Eden.^[6]

[edit] Publications

The Internal Structure of Indonesian Roots (Nusa, 1985) was his two-volume doctoral thesis at University of Michigan in 1983 before it was published two years later in Jakarta, Indonesia by the Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, as volumes 21 and 22 of their NUSA series.^[7]
"The Tale of the Good Wife" (Cricket magazine) is a retelling of a folk tale from Dagestan, a province of Russia where McCune spent two years planting a church.
The Rats of Hamelin (Moody Publishers, 2005) is a historical fantasy novel he coauthored with his son, Adam McCune. It is a retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

[edit] Notes

^ Margaret Magnus. "What's in a Word?: Studies in Phonosemantics." (web page)
^ Adam McCune & Keith McCune. The Rats of Hamelin. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2005. Back cover.
^ Moody Publishers. "Adam & Keith McCune." 2005. (web page)
^ The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). "Russia." TEAM Horizons (DVD), vol. 1, iss. 1. Carol Stream, IL: The Evangelical Alliance Mission, 2005-2006. (promotional video)
^ Brent L. Preston. "Odessa: The City of Humor." TEAM Horizons, vol. 2, iss. 1. Carol Stream, IL: The Evangelical Alliance Mission, 2006-2007. p. 10.
^ The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). "McCune, Keith and Grace." 2008. (web page)
^ Ralph Emerson. "The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters." (web page, reprinted from Verbatim: The Language Quarterly)