2006 - Professor Brian D. Joseph

Citation for the award of degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa)

Brian Joseph is one of the half-dozen leading scholars in historical and comparative linguistics in the world today. He currently holds the prestigious Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of South Slavic Linguistics at the Ohio State University.
 

        He took his Bachelor's Degree from Yale University in Linguistics and Classics, and then went on to a PhD at Harvard University, awarded in 1978, on Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek. After a year teaching at the University of Alberta, he was appointed to the Ohio State University in 1978, being promoted to Full Professor at the early age of thirty seven in 1988. He was Department Chair for ten years, from 1987 till 1997. Professor Joseph has been a Visiting Faculty member at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, at the University of Illinois, and at Michigan State University. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for teaching excellence, distinguished service, and the College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty award.

          Professor Joseph's main areas of research can be categorised as: historical linguistics, Greek linguistics, Balkan linguistics, and morphological theory, with secondary areas of interest in language and identity, Sanskrit linguistics and Indo-European studies in general.

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