Michael Weiss
Associate Professor
(PhD, Cornell University, 1993)
Department of Linguistics, 218 Morrill Hall, mlw36@cornell.edu
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Research
My main research interests focus on Indo-European linguistics. In particular I have been
interested in the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages.
I am currently working on a book about the Iguvine tables, the most important surviving texts in the
Umbrian language. I am also interested in the theoretical aspects of historical linguistics.
Graduate Fields Represented: Linguistics, Classics
Cornell Greek, Latin, and Indo-European Roundtable
Teaching
Outline of the Comparative Grammar of Latin
© Michael Weiss
Cornell University
The Outline of the Comparative Grammar of Latin will soon be published. Consequently, I have decided to
take down the very out-of-date version formerly posted here. If you'd like to see a more recent version, please
send me an email.
Selected Publications
Weiss, M. "Latin Orbis and Its Cognates," forthcoming in
Historische Sprachforschung, 2006, 28pp in ms
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Weiss, M. Preface to Ivy Livingston,
A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus, Routledge, 2004.
Weiss, M. Observations on the South Picene Inscription TE 1 (S. Omero).
Journal of Indo-European Studies, 2001.
Weiss, M. (1998). Erotica: On the Prehistory of Greek Desire.
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 98, 31-61.
Weiss, M. (1998). On Some Developments of Final Syllables in South-Picene.
In
Mir Curad Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins (pp. 703-715). Innsbruck.
Weiss, M. (1996). Greek
myríos 'countless,' Hittite
muri-'bunch (of fruit)'.
Historische Sprachforschung, 109.2 199-214.
FORTHCOMING AND IN PREPARATION
BOOK
Weiss, M. (in preparation).
Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy. Book ms.
I am posting a few sample chapters here.
They are works in progress and the analyses supported therein may still change.
I'd be most grateful for any comments or questions, but please do not cite these chapters
in any publications.
Intro_to_TI_III-IV
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Fragments of Chapter 3
Chapter 4, Part 1
Chapter 4, Part 2
The Supa
Bibliography
PAPERS
A new paper on the etymology of Latin orbis
Cui Bono? The Benficiary Phrases of the Third Iguvine Table
