Weiss, Michael L
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- Professor, Linguistics (LING), College of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Classics (CLASS), College of Arts and Sciences
Weiss' main research interests focus on Indo-European linguistics. In particular he has been interested in the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages. Weiss is 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. He is 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. Weiss is also interested in the theoretical aspects of historical linguistics.
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