Geoffrey Horrocks

Geoffrey Horrocks , complete: Geoffrey Charles Horrocks (born February 3, 1951 ) is a British linguist and as such also a classical philologist , Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist .

Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology ( Indo-European , comparative linguistics ) and Fellow of St John's College , Cambridge . Before that he also worked at the University of London .

The focus of research is the history, change and structure of the Greek language from the earliest evidence in the 2nd millennium BC ( Linear B ) to the present day, and secondly the history and structure of Latin up to the early Middle Ages (also in its Italian context of the Sabellian languages and Etruscan ). From a linguistic point of view, he is interested in linguistic theory , historical linguistics and language change as well as syntax , semantics and morphology . 

Together with David Holton and with the participation of Panagiotis Toufexis , Horrocks directed the research project "Grammar of Medieval Greek" at Cambridge University from 2004 to 2009.

Fonts (selection)

• Davod Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen , Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou, Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek , Cambridge University Press, 2019 CUP website
• Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. Revised and expanded edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (1st edition 1997), excerpts online . - Reviews: Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 05/20/2011 ; Philippa M. Steele, in: Scholia Reviews ns 20 (2011) 5; Brian D. Joseph , in: Diachronica 18.1 (2001) 166–171, online (PDF; 99 kB); Joshua Timothy Katz, in: Classical World 100.4, 2007, 454-455, online .
• Geoffrey C. Horrocks, James Clackson: The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Blackwell, Malden, Oxford, Carlton 2007, online . - Reviews: Brent Vine, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03/21/2009 ; Hilla Halla-aho, in: Arctos 43 (2009) 243-246, online (PDF; 714 kB).
• Artemis Alexiadou , Geoffrey C. Horrocks, Melita Stavrou (eds.): Studies in Greek syntax. Springer, Heidelberg 1998 (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 43), [1]
• Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks, Irene Philippaki-Warburton (Eds.): Themes in Greek linguistics II . John Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1998 (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV: Current issues in linguistic theory, Volume 159), online .
• Generative grammar . Longman / Pearson, London, 1987.
• Space and time in Homer. Prepositional and adverbial particles in the Greek epic . Arno Press New York, 1983, online .

Web links

• Cambridge University personal page
• Personal page on Cambridge Language Sciences
• Classicists in British Universities
• The Master and Fellows of St John's College
• Horrocks, Geoffrey C.  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .