Brian Joseph | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 22, 1951 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
Brian D. Joseph (born November 22,1951) is an American linguist specializing in historical linguistics. He is a Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at Ohio State University. [1] His research interests include language change,Greek,Albanian,and general Balkan linguistics,and morphological theory. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
Joseph received an A.B. in linguistics from Yale University,and his A.M. and Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University. After a year at the University of Alberta (September 1978 - August 1979) as an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-doctoral Fellow,he moved to Ohio State University,where he has spent his entire professional career,retiring in June 2024 and becoming Professor Emeritus. [2]
Joseph was the Vice-President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2018 and served as the organization's President in 2019 (actually from January 2019 to January 2020). [3] He was previously President of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences and currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics, [4] a journal he helped to found in 2000.
