Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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 Dr Nick Zair

Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Classics.

Contact
Peterhouse, Trumpington Street, Cambridge
CB2 1RD

Email: naz21@cam.ac.uk
          http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/naz21/

Research Interests
The history and development of Proto-Indo-European and the Indo-European languages, in particular the Italic and Celtic language families. Indo-European phonology and morphology, mechanisms of sound change, and language classification. I am currently working on the historical phonology of the Sabellic languages of Ancient Italy (Oscan, Umbrian, South Picene ).

Publications

Monographs
2012. The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic. Leiden & Boston: Brill 

Articles
Forthcoming 2013. Latin glārea ‘gravel’. Historische Sprachforschung 126

Forthcoming 2013. Individualism in “Osco-Greek” orthography. In Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite & Bettina Beinhoff (eds.), Scribes as Agents of Language Change. Berlin: De Gruyter

Forthcoming 2013. British *-āw- and *-āg-, and the Celtic words for ‘sun’. Die Sprache 49, 194-208

2012. Schrijver’s rules for British and Proto-Celtic *ow and *uw before a vowel. In Philomen Probert & Andreas Willi (eds.), Laws and Rules in Indo-European, 147-60. Oxford: Oxford University Press

2012. A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic. In Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead et al. (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European. Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics, 613-30

2011. PIE ‘bird’ and ‘egg’ after Schindler. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 65, 287-310
         
2011. OIr cuae, MW keu, MB queu ‘hollow’. Ériu 61, 165-8
         
2009. OIr. biid < *bhuH-ye/o- and ‘hiatus’ verbs. In Stephanie Jamison, Craig Melchert & Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th UCLA Indo-European Conference: Los Angeles 2008, 213-20. Bremen: Hempen Verlag Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 65, 287-310