Classics Department

Cornell Classics Faculty: Alan

CORNELL CLASSICS FACULTY AND STAFF

Alan J. Nussbaum
Professor of Classics and Linguistics

324 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
(607) 255-8331
FAX: (607) 254-8899
e-mail: ajn8@cornell.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Fall 2009 Courses:
CLASS 1331 - Elementary Sanskrit I
GREEK/LING 4455 - Greek Dialects

Education:

* B.A. in Classics: Washington Square College of New York University 1969
* Diploma in Comparative Philology (Greek and Italic): Oxford University 1974
* Ph.D. in Linguistics: Harvard University 1976

Employment:

Regular Appointments:

* 1975 --1985: Instructor, Assistant Professor,Term Associate Professor of Classics (Yale University)
* 1985 --1997 : Associate Professor of Classics and Linguistics (Cornell University).
* 1997 -- Professor of Classics and Linguistics (Cornell).

Visiting Appointments:

* Summer Semester 1999: University of Vienna
* Summer Semester 2001: Free University of Berlin
* Winter Semester 2001-02: University of Vienna
* Spring Semester 2003: Tel Aviv University
* Summer 2004: Summer School of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Free University of Berlin

Upcoming Guest Teaching:

* Summer 2005: Instructor at the Summer Linguistics Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Harvard/MIT (Cambridge, MA). "Topics in Indo-European Nominal Morphology."
(http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/courses/descriptions/231.html)

Courses Taught:

* Languages: Elementary and Intermediate Greek, Elementary and Intermediate Latin, Elementary and Intermediate Sanskrit, Greek prose composition.
* Greek and Latin Linguistics and Philology: Greek Comparative Grammar, Greek Dialects, Mycenaean Greek, Homeric Language; Latin Comparative Grammar, Archaic Latin, Plautine Philology, Italic Dialects.
* Indo-European Linguistics: Sanskrit Comparative Grammar, Seminars on Indo-European nominal formation, derivation and inflection.
* General Historical Linguistics

Major Publications:

Head and Horn in Indo-European (Berlin-New York 1986)
Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics (Göttingen 1998)

Recent Presentations:

May 2003: Hebrew University (Jerusalem): "Neo-Ionic and Homeric: An Illustrative Instance."

June 2003: Twenty-second East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC), Harvard University : "A Benign Interpretation: Latin benignus and the 'bonus rule.'" .

March 2004: Invited speaker at the University of California
(Berkeley) Workshop on Language and Dialect in Ancient Italy:
"Faliscan (pi)pafo: an (an)alysis."

April 2004: Invited speaker at the Ford Foundation Workshop on
Indo-European Historical Linguistics and Poetics of Harvard
University: "Some Thoughts on Proto-Indo-European Root Nouns." .

May 2004: Invited speaker at the Twenty-third ECIEC (Virginia Tech): "Cool *-e:d-: The Latin fri:ge:do: and Greek alge:do:n, te:kedo:n, and hri:gedanos types."

Summer 2004: Instructor at the Summer School of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, (Free University of Berlin)

November 2004: Invited speaker at the Sixteenth Annual UCLA
Indo-European Conference: "A -t- Party: Various IE nominal stems in *-(o/e)t-."

Conference Paper Invited:
June 2005: Twenty-fourth ECIEC, University of California (Berkeley). [Title yet to be decided.]

Conference Paper Accepted:
January 2006: 137th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (Montreal): "Classical Latin iudicare and Corcolle iouosdica-: Can you get here from there?"

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Department of Classics
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Telephone:
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(607) 255-7471
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