Harold Craig Melchert (born April 5, 1945) is an American linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of

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Biography

He received his B.A. in German from Michigan State University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from

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in 1977. From 1968 to 1972 he served in the United States Air Force, where he learned Chinese and worked as a Chinese radio listener. In 1978 he accepted a position at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United State ...

, where he became Paul Debreczeny Distinguished Professor of Linguistics. In 2005 he was the Collitz Professor at the

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Summer Institute. As of July 1, 2007 he is A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies at the

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Selected works

*''Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology''. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, *''Lycian Lexicon''. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Copytron, 1989, iv + 122pp.; 2nd edn. Chapel Hill University Press, 1993, vi + 130pp. *''Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon''. Chapel Hill, N.C.: self-published, 1993, *''Anatolian Historical Phonology'', Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994, *''A Grammar of the Hittite Language'', Eisenbrauns, 2008, *''A Dictionary of the Lycian Language'', Ann Arbor–NY: Beech Stave Press, 2004,

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