Martin E. Huld is an American linguist who is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. He specializes in

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Biography

Huld received his B.A. (1972) at California State University, Los Angeles, and his M.A. (1978) and

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(1979) at the

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. He subsequently served Lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles (1983-1998), Instructor at Mount Saint Mary's College (1991-1998), Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (1998-2004), Associate Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (2004-2007), and Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (2007-2015). Huld retired as Professor Emeritus in 2015. Huld specializes in

. He is the author of numerous influential works on this subject. He is a contributor to the ''

Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...

'' and the '' American Heritage Dictionary'', a board member of the ''

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'', President of the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and member of the

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, the Early English Text Society, and the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.

Selected works

* ''Basic Albanian Etymologies''. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1984 * ''On the Unacceptability of the Indo-European Voiced Stops as Ejectives'', 1986 * ''The Vocabulary of Indo-European Culture in The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe'', 1997 * ''Etymological Dictionaries: Theory of Greek Etymology in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics'', 2013

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