Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum

Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum is a Professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, with additional affiliations to the Linguistics program. His office is located at 120 Goldwin Smith Hall, and he can be contacted via email (ajn8@cornell.edu) or phone (607/255-8331).

Research Focus: Professor Nussbaum specializes in two interconnected domains:

• Indo-European linguistics, reconstructing nominal morphology (e.g., collectives, decasuatives) and semantic systems like the Caland system in Proto-Indo-European.
• Greek and Latin comparative linguistics, analyzing phonological/morphological evolution, Homeric language mechanics, and Italic dialects through historical-grammatical frameworks.

Publication Trends: His scholarly output (1986–2014) demonstrates consistent focus on reconstructing Proto-Indo-European nominal systems and Greek/Latin morphophonemics. Works employ epigraphic analysis, dialectology, and semantic modeling, frequently bridging Homeric literature with linguistic theory.