Language and Meter: 18 (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 18) - Hardcover

Olav Hackstein; Dieter Gunkel

 
9789004357761: Language and Meter: 18 (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 18)

Synopsis

In Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a broad variety of poetic traditions, including Homer, the Vedas, and Germanic alliterative verse.

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About the Author

Dieter Gunkel is Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Richmond. He earned his Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010), and held the position of Akademischer Rat in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (20102017). He has published on various topics in Indo-European Linguistics, including prosody and meter in ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, and Tocharian. Olav Hackstein (Dr. phil. 1993, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; Habilitation 1999, Universität Halle an der Saale) held positions in Historical and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (visiting lecturer, 1989), and the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (1994 Assistant Professor, 1999 Associate Professor). Since 2008 he has been full professor, and chair in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Contributors are:

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