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Donald A. Ringe Jr. (/ˈrɪndʒ/RINJ; born 1954) is an Americanlinguist andIndo-Europeanist.

He has been described as ahistorical linguist and as amathematical linguist.^[1][2] He ismulti-lingual.^[3] He employs mathematics in his work onlanguage family trees and theProto-Indo-European language.^[3][4]

Ringe graduated fromUniversity of Kentucky and received aMaster of Philosophy in linguistics as aMarshall Scholar from theUniversity of Oxford. He received aPh.D. in linguistics atYale University in 1984, under the supervision ofWarren Cowgill. He taught Classics atBard College from 1983 to 1985. Since 1985, he has been on the Faculty in Linguistics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, where he has been a full professor since 1996.^[1]

He is the author of numerous articles and books, chiefly on historical Indo-European linguistics, especiallyAncient Greek,Tocharian and theGermanic languages.

• Ringe, Donald A. (1992).On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.ISBN 0-87169-821-8.
• Ringe, Donald (1996).On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian. Volume 1: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Tocharian. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society.ISBN 0940490803.
• Ringe, Don (2006).From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-928413-X.
  • Ringe, Don (2017) [2006].From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0198792581.
• Ringe, Donald; Eska, Joseph (2013).Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521587112.
• Ringe, Don; Taylor, Ann (2014).The Development of Old English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780199207848.
• Ringe, Don (2018).An Introduction to Grammar for Language Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-108-42515-5.
• Ringe, Don (2021).A Historical Morphology of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 9781474459761.

• Eska, Joseph F.;Hackstein, Olav[in German]; Kim, Ronald I.; Mondon, Jean-François, eds. (2024).The Method Works: Studies on Language Change in Honor of Don Ringe.Cham: Springer International Publishing.doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48959-4.ISBN 978-3-031-48958-7.

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