Michael Weiss
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.
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 Unpublished diss., Cornell University.
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FORTHCOMING AND IN PREPARATION
The Cao Bang Theory: Some Speculations on the Prehistory of the PIE Stop System. [
PowerPoint file]
