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Research interests
The linguistic history and development of Latin and the languages of Ancient Italy, the Celtic languages, and Proto-Indo-European.
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Publications
Books
2016. Oscan in the Greek Alphabet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press2012. The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic. Leiden & Boston: Brill
Recent Articles
2019. Moreed Arbabzadah & Nicholas Zair. Notes on a British Curse Tablet from Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar (Nottinghamshire). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 212, 172-92019. Reconstructed forms in the Roman writers on language. Language and History, Latest Articles, 1-20. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649856
2018. On the relative sonority of PIE /m/. Indo-European Linguistics 6, 271-303
2018. Latin bardus and gurdus. Glotta 94, 311-18
2017, with Katherine McDonald. Changing script in a threatened language: reactions to Romanisation at Bantia in the first century BC. In Mari Jones & Damien Mooney (eds.), Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages, 291-304. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2017. The origins of -urC- for expected -orC- in Latin. Glotta 93, 255-89
2016. Vowel weakening in the Sabellic languages as language contact. Indogermanische Forschungen 121, 295-316
2015 [2013]. Latin glārea ‘gravel’. Historische Sprachforschung 126, 280-86
2015, with Katherine McDonald and Livia Tagliapietra. New readings of the multilingual Petelia curse tablet. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 195, 157-64
2015. Old Irish gniid ‘makes, does’, Middle Welsh gweinydaf ‘serve’ and i-presents. Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 62, 213-222
Dr Nicholas Zair
- Fellow
Elected
2017
Subject areas
- Classics and Linguistics
naz21@cam.ac.uk
College phone
338268
I read Classics at Oxford before doing a doctorate in Comparative Philology and General Linguistics. I was appointed a Research Fellow at Peterhouse in 2010, and am now a Lecturer in Classical Linguistics and Comparative Philology in the Classics Faculty.
