Language and Meter

Dieter Gunkel is Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Richmond. He earned his Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010), and held the position of Akademischer Rat in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2010–2017). He has published on various topics in Indo-European Linguistics, including prosody and meter in ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, and Tocharian.Olav Hackstein (Dr. phil. 1993, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; Habilitation 1999, Universität Halle an der Saale) held positions in Historical and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (visiting lecturer, 1989), and the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (1994 Assistant Professor, 1999 Associate Professor). Since 2008 he has been full professor, and chair in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.Contributors are: