American linguist
Benjamin Wynn Fortson IV is an Americanlinguist . Fortson received his B.A. fromYale University in 1989 and his PhD fromHarvard University in 1996. He is Professor ofGreek andLatin Language, Literature and Historical Linguistics at theUniversity of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts . Fortson specializes in the comparative linguistic study of theIndo-European languages , focusing primarily on theItalic ,Hellenic ,Indo-Iranian ,Anatolian ,Celtic , andGermanic branches. He was for many years Senior Lexicographer ofThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [ 1]
Selected bibliography [ edit ] Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction , 2004.[ 1] Benjamin W. Fortson IV:Indo-European Language and Culture. An Introduction. Second edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA / Chichester 2010 (First edition 2004),ISBN 978-1-4051-8896-8 Language and Rhythm in Plautus ^a b "Benjamin Fortson" .University of Michigan LSA Department of Classical Studies . RetrievedSeptember 2, 2019 .
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