Associate Professor of Classics and Linguistics

Research Interests

Greek and Latin historical linguistics; Homeric language; Indo-European languages and linguistics; Indo-Iranian linguistics.

Representative Publications

“The Derivational History of PGmc. *wethru- ‘lamb’,” in Alan J. Nussbaum, ed., Verba Docenti.  Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by Students, Colleagues, and Friends (Ann Arbor and New York, 2007), 281-292.

“The Greek Type nomas, -ados,” to appear in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft; “The Origin of the Short-Vowel Inflection of the EU-Stems in Homer,” to appear in Glotta.

 “A Note on Mycenaean te-re-ja and the Athematic Inflection of the Contract Verbs,” to appear in Historische Sprachforschung; “PIE *woidu-/weidu- and its derivatives,” Die Sprache 40/2 (1998), 133-160.

Mailing Address

Department of Linguistics

318 Boylston Hall

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone: (617) 496-2318

E-mail: rau@fas.harvard.edu