Andrew Sihler

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Andrew L. Sihler, (born 1941 at Seattle) is an American linguist and comparative Indo-Europeanist.

Sihler received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1962 from Harvard College, where he studied Germanic languages, literature, and linguistics. He earned his Master of Arts from Yale in 1965, taking his doctorate in 1967. Sihler trained in general linguistics but with a concentration in historical-comparative linguistics — Indo-European in particular — studying under Warren Cowgill and Stanley Insler, among others. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, from which he retired in the spring of 1999.

Andrew's brother William W. Sihler is a professor of finance in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. The brothers Sihler are the grandnephews of Ernest Gottlieb Sihler and great-grandsons of Wilhelm Sihler. Both Wilhelm and Gottleib were classics scholars, though they were not as well-acquainted with historical linguistics.

[edit] Major works

  • New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin
  • Language History: An Introduction
  • "Edgerton's Law: The Phantom Evidence"


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