About Alan Nussbaum
Born 1947. Alan Nussbaum is an American linguist and classical philologist.
Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American linguist of the Indo-European languages and a classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and modern and Proto-Indo-European nominals. He has specialized in nominals' derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the "Caland system"). He is a professor of Indo-European linguistics, and the Greek and Latin languages at Cornell University.
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