Hello!
My name is Sasha Nikolaev. I am a fifth year graduate student at Harvard, studying historical and theoretical linguistics and the classics. One way to describe my scholarly interests would be to say that I am a comparative philologist. I have mostly published on Indo-European and Greek linguistics, but I have also done research in comparative literature and comparative mythology as well as in theoretical phonology and morphology.

My research interests include reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular, reconstruction of inflectional and derivational nominal morphology; reconstruction of Indo-European poetics and mythology; historical grammar and etymology of Greek, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Celtic and other ancient Indo-European languages and language families; Greek epic and lyric; early contacts between Greece and Ancient Near East; and the Nachleben of the Greek and Byzantine literary culture.

Alexander Nikolaev
Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
Boylston Hall, 3rd floor - Cambridge, MA 02138
nikolaev at fas dot harvard dot edu

Indo-European phonology morphology reconstruction laryngeal accent-ablaut paradigms inflexional internal derivation root suffix delocatival etymology Greek Griechisch Hittite Hethitisch Anatolian Anatolisch Luvian Luwisch Lycian Lykisch Iranian Iranisch Avestan Avestisch Persian Persisch Old Indic Altindisch Sanskrit Albanian Albanisch Phrygian Latin Latein Celtic Keltisch Old Irish Altirisch Welsh Kymrisch Celtiberian Tocharian Tokharisch Slavic Slavisch Old Church Slavonic Slovo o Polu Igoreve Baltic Baltisch Lithuanian Lithuanisch Latvian Lettisch Germanic Gothic Old Norse Armenian inscription epigraphy dialect Narten preterit present stem