Rex E. Wallace (born September 13, 1952) is an American

linguist 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

classical scholar Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

specializing in

Etruscan language Etruscan ( ) was the language of the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria, in Etruria Padana and Etruria Campana in what is now Italy. Etruscan influenced Latin but was eventually superseded by it. Around 13,000 Etruscan epigraph ...

languages of ancient Italy Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed language, signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing syste ...

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

. He served as Professor of Classics at

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

from 1985 until his retirement in 2018.

Biography

Rex Ervin Wallace was born September 13, 1952. He received his

B.A. A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree ...

and his

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from the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the M ...

in Classical languages, and his

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in Linguistics from the

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. He spent a year at the

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as the Oscar Broneer Fellow in Classical Studies. He was appointed Professor of Classics with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1985. He is a past recipient of the

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Fellowship, and co-editor of ''Rasenna'', electronic journal of Etruscan archaeological and linguistic studies. His main research and teaching interests are Etruscan, Pre-Roman, Latin and Greek linguistics, historical linguistics, and morphology.

Selected publications

* ''Language files, materials'', 1982. * ''Lucilius and satire in second-century BC Rome, 1985. * ''Res gestae divi Augusti : as recorded in the Monumentum Ancyranum and the Monumentum Antiochenum'', 2000. * ''An introduction to wall inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum'', Bolchazy-Carducci publishers, 2005. * ''The Sabellic Languages of Ancient Italy'', Lincom, 2007. * ''Zikh Rasna. A Manual of Etruscan Language and Inscriptions'', Beech Stave, 2008. * ''The archaeology of language at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)'' 2013. * ''Language, Alphabet and Linguistic Affiliation'', in S. Bell and A. Carpino, eds., "A Companion to the Etruscans", Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

References

External links

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American classical scholars Linguists from the United States University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Living people 1952 births {{US-linguist-stub