Andrew L. Sihler, American linguist and comparative Indo-Europeanist. Prof. Sihler comes from a long line of classics scholars; he is the grandnephew of Ernest Gottlieb Sihler and great-grandnephew of Wilhelm Sihler. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. ... Wilhelm Sihler, born 1801 in Germany, died 1885 was a Lutheran minister, considered by American Lutherans to be The Father of Lutheranism in America. ...
bhavati Come From?; Andrew L. Sihler: The Myth of Direct Reflexes of the PIE Palatal Series in Kati; Cheryl Steets: Ajahaad u dvaa mithuna: a note on Rgveda 10.17.1-2.
Andrew Minard: Of Horses and Humans: The Divine Twins in Celtic Mythology and Folklore
Andrew Sherratt: Echoes of the Big Bang - The Historical Context of Language Dispersal
For a historical treatment, see the Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Carl Darling Buck (Chicago: University Press, 1933).
A successor is the New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, by Andrew L. Sihler (Oxford: University Press, 1995); it is written like a novel -- no references, no bibliography.
An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, founded upon the seventh edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon: 1989) provides good coverage for texts of every type.
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