Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American linguist of the Indo-European languages and a classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and modern and Proto-Indo-European nominals.
He has specialized in nominals' derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the "Caland system").
[1] He is a professor of Indo-European linguistics, and the Greek and Latin languages at Cornell University.
[1] Nussbaum, of Galician Jewish background, was born in New York City and raised in Passaic, New Jersey.
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