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Michael Weiss

Professor

(PhD, Cornell University, 1993)
Department of Linguistics, 218 Morrill Hall, mlw36@cornell.edu

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. Look for my books Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy (Leiden: Brill) and Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Ann Arbor: Beech Stave) to come out this year (2009). I am editing together with Andrew Garrett a Handbook of Indo-European Studies and writing a new Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics with Jay Jasanoff, both for Oxford University Press. I am also working on a study of the sociocultural contexts of Indo-European Linguistics in the 20th century, and an investigation of some classic problems of the PIE phonological system including the stop system and the role of supra-syllabic constituents in PIE phonology. I am also interested in the theoretical aspects of historical linguistics.

Graduate Fields Represented: Linguistics, Classics

Cornell Greek, Latin, and Indo-European Roundtable

Selected Publications

Weiss, M. (2009) Umbrian erus. In East and West: Papers in Indo-European studies, ed. Kazuhiko Yoshida and Brent Vine, 241-264. Bremen: Hempen Verlag. [pdf]

Weiss, M. (2007) Cui Bono? The beneficiary phrases of the Third Iguvine Table. In Verba docenti.Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends, ed. Alan J. Nussbaum, 365–78. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press.

Weiss, M. Latin Orbis and its Cognates. Historische Sprachforschung, 119: 250-72.

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. [pdf]

Weiss, M. (1998). Erotica: On the Prehistory of Greek Desire. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 98, 31-61. [pdf]

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.

Weiss, M. (1993). Studies in Italic Nominal Morphology. Unpublished diss., Cornell University. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Bibliography]

FORTHCOMING AND IN PREPARATION

The Cao Bang Theory: Some Speculations on the Prehistory of the PIE Stop System. [PowerPoint file]