Handbook Of Comparative And Historical Indo-Eur...

Ben Fortson is a Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics (Classical Studies) and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics. His core teaching includes Latin language and literature, several Classical Civilization courses (including "Ancient Languages and Scripts" and "Medical Terminology"), and the Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. His research specializes in the comparative linguistic study of the Indo-European language family, focusing primarily on the Italic, Greek, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, and Celtic branches, with side interests in comparative Indo-European metrics, poetics, and culture. He also does research in the methodology of historical linguistics and the mechanisms of phonological and morphological change. He is currently preparing a translation of, together with historical linguistic and cultural commentary on, the lexicon of Festus. For several years he was etymologist and Senior Lexicographer of The American Heritage Dictionary of English, and continues to do occasional lexicographic work. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Beech Stave Press (www.beechstave.com).

Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-Eur...

Ben Fortson is Professor of Greek and Latin (Department of Classical Studies) and Linguistics. He specializes in the comparative linguistic study of the Indo-European language family, focusing primarily on the Italic, Greek, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, and Germanic branches, with side interests in comparative Indo-European metrics, poetics, and culture. He also does research in the methodology of historical linguistics and the mechanisms of phonological and morphological change. For several years he was etymologist and Senior Lexicographer of The American Heritage Dictionary of English, and continues to do occasional lexicographic work.

The MPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is a taught course offering a range of options for graduates seeking a higher academic qualification in language studies and wishing to specialise in general linguistics (including phonetics but not applied linguistics), in historical and comparative linguistics, or in the linguistics of a specific language.

In addition to a compulsory paper in linguistic theory, you will specialise in general linguistics (B), Indo-European historical and comparative philology and linguistics (C) or in the linguistics of one or two selected languages (D).

You will select two ancient Indo-European languages or language groups (eg Greek, Italic, Celtic, Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Slavic etc). Three exam papers cover the comparative grammar, the historical grammar, and a number of set texts for linguistic commentary in the two languages or language groups. 041b061a72