Brian Joseph | |
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| Born | (1951-11-22)November 22, 1951 (age 74) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Ohio State University |
Brian D. Joseph (born November 22, 1951) is an Americanlinguist specializing inhistorical linguistics. He is a Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and theKenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics atOhio State University.[1] His research interests includelanguage change,Greek,Albanian, and generalBalkan linguistics, andmorphological theory. He was elected a Member of theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2019.
Joseph received anA.B. in linguistics fromYale University, and hisA.M. andPh.D. in linguistics fromHarvard University. After a year at the University of Alberta (September 1978 - August 1979) as an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-doctoral Fellow, he moved to Ohio State University, where he has spent his entire professional career, retiring in June 2024 and becoming Professor Emeritus.[2]
Joseph was the Vice-President of theLinguistic Society of America in 2018 and served as the organization's President in 2019 (actually from January 2019 to January 2020).[3] He was previously President of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences and currently serves as co-editor of theJournal of Greek Linguistics,[4] a journal he helped to found in 2000.
