Research Interests:

Latin linguistics, Indo-European, morphology, syntactic change

Recent Publications:

Books:

The Foundations of Latin. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. (Paperback, 2002.)

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax. 4 volumes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009-11 (co-edited with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

Articles and Chapters:

Considerazioni etimologiche, areali e tipologiche dei verbi di «avere» nelle lingue indeuropee. In Latin et langues romanes: études de linguistique offertes à József Herman à l'occasion de son 80ème anniversaire, ed. Sándor Kiss, Luca Mondin, and Giampaolo Salvi, pp. 27-36. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

Towards a History of the Manner of Motion Parameter in Greek and Indo-European. In Fonologia e tipologia lessicale nella storia della lingua greca: Atti del VI Incontro Internazionale di Linguistica Greca (Bergamo, settembre 2005), ed. Pierluigi Cuzzolin and Maria Napoli, pp. 13-31. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006. [Spanish translation in Estudios Clásicos 137, 7-28 (2010)].

Review article on Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica, by Theo Vennemann. Lingua 116 (2006):2183-2220 (co-authored with Richard Page).

Indo-European Languages. In The World’s Major Languages, 2d edn, ed. Bernard Comrie, pp. 23-50. London: Routledge, 2009.

English as an Indo-European language. In A Companion to the History of the English Language, ed. Haruko Momma and Michael Matto, pp. 127-141. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Prolegomena. In New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, ed. Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin, vols. 1-3, pp. 1-17. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009-2011 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

Osservazioni sulla morfologia del comparativo in greco antico. In La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia, ed. Ignazio Putzu et al., pp. 46-61. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2010 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

The Latin Temporal Adverb semper and Its Relatives. Alessandria: Rivista di Glottologia 3 (2009):13-26 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

Possession in Latin. In New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, ed. Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin, vol. 3, pp. 239-387. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010 (co-authored with Andrea Nuti).

Possessive Expressions in Oscan and Umbrian. Language Typology and Universals 64.2: 103-113 (2011)

Syntactic Change in the History of Latin. Do New Perspectives lead to New Results? In New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, ed. Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin, vol. 4, pp. 865-893. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

Epilegomena. In New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, ed. Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin, vol. 4, pp. 1-9. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011 (co-authored with Pierluigi Cuzzolin).

The Syntax of Italic. In Handbuch der vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, ed. Matthias Fritz and Jared S. Klein, forthcoming. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Italic languages. In the Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, ed. Dee Clayman. Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming (co-authored with Gabriel Bakkum).