Professor
(PhD, Harvard University, 1976)
Departments of Classics/Linguistics, 324 Goldwin Smith Hall, ajn8@cornell.edu, 255-8331
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Research
The research I have done has been on two different sets of things. On one
side I've been interested in Indo-European linguistics in
general, where most of my attention has been on questions the
inflectional and (especially) derivational morphology of nominal
forms in the reconstructed protolanguage. More specifically, I've worked
on the morphological and semantic reconstruction of some
characteristic denominative substantives and adjectives of
Proto-Indo-European-e.g. collectives, "decasuatives" (nominals
derived from actual case forms, rather than the stems, of their
substantival bases), and the "Caland system." My second research area is
Greek and Latin comparative and historical linguistics, where I've
studied a number of problems in Greek and Latin phonology and morphology,
done some work on the Italic dialects, and dealt with Homeric language,
largely from the point of view of Greek historical grammar, but also with
an eye on the purely phonological and
morphological aspects of the technique of epic composition.
Graduate Fields Represented: Classics, Linguistics
Teaching
Languages: Elementary and Intermediate Greek, Elementary and
Intermediate Latin, Elementary and Intermediate Sanskrit, Greek prose
composition.
Greek and Latin Linguistics and Philology: Greek Comparative Grammar,
Greek Dialects, Mycenaean Greek, Homeric Linguistics; Latin
Comparative Grammar, Archaic Latin, Plautine Philology, Italic
Dialects.
Indo-European Linguistics: Sanskrit Comparative Grammar, Seminars on
Indo-European nominal formation, derivation and inflection in
general, and on "Caland systems" in particular.
General Historical Linguistics.
Major Publications
Head and Horn in Indo-European (Berlin-New York 1986)
Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics (Göttingen 1998)
Recent Activities
March 2004: Invited speaker at the University of California
(Berkeley) Workshop on Language and Dialect in Ancient Italy:
"Faliscan
(pi)pafo: an (an)alysis."
April 2004: Invited speaker at the Ford Foundation Workshop on
Indo-European Historical Linguistics and Poetics (Harvard
University): "Some Thoughts on Proto-Indo-European Root Nouns."
May 2004: Invited speaker at the Twenty-third East Coast
Indo-European Conference (Virginia Tech): "Cool *-e:d-: The Latin
fri:ge:do: and Greek
alge:do:n,
te:kedo:n, and
hri:gedanos types."
Summer 2004: Instructor at the Summer School of the Indogermanische
Gesellschaft, (Free University of Berlin).
November 2004: Invited speaker at the Sixteenth Annual UCLA
Indo-European Conference: "A -t- Party: Various IE nominal stems in
*-(o/e)t-."
