Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American linguist of the

Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...

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 Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

and morphology (including that of the " Caland system").Alan Nussbaum - Professor
at Cornell University Department of Linguistics He is a professor of Indo-European

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, and the

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and

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languages at

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. Nussbaum, of Galician

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background, was born in

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and raised in

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. He received a bachelor's degree in classics (1969) from

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, a Diploma in Comparative Philology (1974) from the

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, and a Ph.D. in linguistics (1976) from

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. After teaching as an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor at

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(1975–85), he moved to Cornell as an associate professor (1985–97) and then as full professor (1997–present) of classics and linguistics. Nussbaum was married to philosopher

Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (; Craven; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philos ...

, professor of law and ethics at the

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, from 1969 to 1987.

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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