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 ). The title of my doctoral thesis was The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic.

Publications
Forthcoming: The shared features of Italic and Celtic. In Matthias Fritz, Jared Klein & Brian Joseph (eds.), Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Forthcoming 2011: PIE ‘bird’ and ‘egg’ after Schindler. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft

Forthcoming 2011: OIr cuae, MW keu, MB queu ‘hollow’, Ériu 61

Forthcoming 2011: Review of Nedoma, Robert & David Stifter. 2010. *h₂nr. Festschrift für Heiner Eichner. Wien: Harrassowitz. Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 58

Forthcoming. A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic. In Benedicte Nielsen et al. (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European - selected papers from the conference held in Copenhagen , 16-19 April 2009.  

Forthcoming. Reconstructing the Brittonic future/present subjunctive. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 14.

2009. OIr. biid < *bhuH-ye/o- and 'hiatus verbs'. In Stephanie Jamison, Craig Melchert and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th UCLA Indo-European Conference: Los Angeles 2008, 213-20. Bremen : Hempen Verlag.