Alan Nussbaum

Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American Indo-European (IE) linguist and classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and the nominals of the IE languages and of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) — especially their derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the “Caland system”).^[1] He teaches Indo-European linguistics and the Greek and Latin languages at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.^[1]

Nussbaum, of Galician Jewish background, was born in New York City and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. He received a bachelor's degree in classics (1969) from Washington Square College (New York University), a Diploma in Comparative Philology (1974) from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in linguistics (1976) from Harvard University.^[1] After teaching as an instructor, assistant professor and associate professor at Yale University (1975–85), he moved to Cornell as an associate professor (1985–97) and then full professor (1997–present) of classics and linguistics.

Bibliography

• Nussbaum, A (1986). Head and Horn in Indo-European. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• Nussbaum, A (1998) Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics.' Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht.
• Nussbaum, A (2007), ed. Verba Docenti. Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends. Ann Arbor and New York: Beech Stave Press.
• Cooper A I, Rau J, Weiss M (2013), eds. Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European Linguistics in Honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press.

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