Prof. Geoff Horrocks
Sample Lecture – Comparative Linguistics
Biography:
Geoff Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of the seminal work Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. He is particularly interested in theories of language structure and language change in their application to the Greek language in all its varieties from the earliest attestations in the second millennium BC to the present day. He also has a secondary interest in the development of Latin, both in its Italian context and in its relationships with other languages as it spread within the Roman empire, including contact with Greek
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