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Donald Ringe (/ˈrɪndʒ/) is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist.
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| Education | University of Kentucky University of Oxford Yale University |
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| Institutions | Bard College University of Pennsylvania |
He has been described as a historical linguist and as a mathematical linguist.[1][2] He is multi-lingual.[3] His work is on language family trees and the Proto-Indo-European language, and he uses mathematics in this.[3][4]
Ringe graduated from University of Kentucky and received a Master of Philosophy in linguistics as a Marshall Scholar from the University of Oxford. He received a Ph.D in linguistics at Yale University in 1984, under the supervision of Warren Cowgill. He taught Classics at Bard College from 1983 to 1985. Since 1985, he has been on the Faculty in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been a full professor since 1996.[1]
He is the author of numerous articles and books, chiefly on historical Indo-European linguistics, especially Ancient Greek, Tocharian and the Germanic languages.
- Ringe, Donald A. (1992). On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-821-8.
- Ringe, Donald (1996). On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian. Volume 1: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Tocharian. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society. ISBN 0940490803.
- Ringe, Don (2006). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-928413-X.
- Ringe, Don (2017) [2006]. From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198792581.
- Ringe, Donald; Eska, Joseph (2013). Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521587112.
- Ringe, Don; Taylor, Ann (2014). The Development of Old English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199207848.
- Ringe, Don (2018). An Introduction to Grammar for Language Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42515-5.
- Ringe, Don (2021). A Historical Morphology of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474459761.
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