Geoffrey Horrocks (born 1951) is a British philologist and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Philology at the
University of Cambridge
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Career
Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge
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. Before that he worked at the University of London.
The focus of his research is the history, change and structure of the Greek language from the earliest evidence and also the history and structure of Latin up to the early Middle Ages (also in its Italian context of the Sabellian languages and Etruscan). In linguistic terms, he is interested in linguistic theory, historical linguistics and language change as well as syntax, semantics and morphology.
Together with David Holton and with the participation of Panagiotis Toufexis, Horrocks directed the research project "Grammar of Medieval Greek" at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2009.
Works
* Davod Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou, Notis Toufexis, ''The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek'', Cambridge University Press, 2019 CUP Website * ''Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers'', revised and expanded edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (1st edition 1997) online extracts — Reviews: Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana, in: ''
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' (''BMCR'') is an open access journal founded in 1990. It publishes reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies including classical archaeology.2011.05.20 Philippa M. Steele, in: ''Scholia Reviews'' ns 20 (2011) 5; Brian D. Joseph, in: ''Diachronica'' 18.1 (2001) 166–171 online (PDF; 99 kB); Joshua Timothy Katz, in: ''Classical World'' 100.4, 2007, 454–455
* Geoffrey C. Horrocks, James Clackson: ''The Blackwell History of the Latin Language''. Blackwell, Malden, Oxford, Carlton 2007 online — Reviews: Brent Vine, in: ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review' Hilla Halla-aho, in: ''Arctos'' 43 (2009) 243–246 online (PDF; 714 kB).
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Artemis Alexiadou
Artemis Alexiadou (Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου, born 13 February 1969 in Volos) is a Greek linguist active in syntax research working in Germany. She is professor of English linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Education
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, Geoffrey C. Horrocks, Melita Stavrou (ed.): ''Studies in Greek syntax.'' Springer, Heidelberg 1998 (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Bd. 43) * Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks, Irene Philippaki-Warburton (ed.): ''Themes in Greek linguistics II''. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1998 (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV: Current issues in linguistic theory, Band 159) online
* ''Generative Grammar''. Longman/Pearson, London, 1987.
* ''Space and time in Homer. Prepositional and adverbial particles in the Greek epic''. Arno Press New York, 1983 online