Graduate Student, Linguistics
St.Petersburg University
About
Hello!
I am a fifth year graduate student at Harvard, studying historical and theoretical linguistics and the classics. Before Harvard, I was educated in St.Petersburg (Russia) and Vienna. One way to describe my scholarly interests would be to say that I am a comparative philologist. I have mostly published on Indo-European and Greek linguistics, but I have also done research in comparative literature and comparative mythology as well as in theoretical phonology and morphology.
My research interests include reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular, reconstruction of inflectional and derivational nominal morphology; reconstruction of Indo-European poetics and mythology; historical grammar and etymology of Greek, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Celtic and other ancient Indo-European languages and language families; Greek epic and lyric; early contacts between Greece and Ancient Near East; and the Nachleben of the Greek and Byzantine literary culture.
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Contact Information
http://sites.google.com/site/alexandersnikolaev/
Harvard University
Linguistics Department
Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor
Harvard Yard
Cambridge MA 0213
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