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

Product Description 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. 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: