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    In March of this year I began a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, under the supervision of D Blank—and I am immensely happy about that. My primary research interests are in Ancient Grammar and Stoic Logic. For my doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of J Barnes and defended in May 2007, I edited, translated, and commented on the so-called pars generalis of Apollonius Dyscolus’ treatise On the Pronoun. I am now working on the second half of Apollonius’ opus, the pars specialis. It will be a big book.

Other recent work of mine includes the following:

Forthcoming. The Birth of Grammar in Greece, in E Bakker, ed., A Companion to Ancient Greek, Oxford: Blackwell
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Forthcoming. Le De pronomine de Priscien et son modèle grec, in M Baratin, B Colombat, and L Holtz, edd., Priscien, Turnhout: Brepols [Abstract] Priscian’s Ars is generally considered the apogee of Latin grammar. Yet he himself claims to have followed in every respect the authority of Apollonius Dyscolus (Ars 13.24.7; al.). For a proper assessment of Priscian’s place in the history of linguistic thought, it is thus indispensable to clarify the relation between his and Apollonius’ œuvre. Focusing on books 12 and 13, I first present a list of all Apollonian passages translated or paraphrased by Priscian, and discuss one of these in more detail (Ars 13.15.9–28). I then analyze the order of Priscian’s exposition, and compare it with the structure of his Greek model. Finally I give two examples—the notions of figure and of reflexivity—to illustrate how, and why, their theories differ from one another. Thence I conclude that the currently fashionable view of Priscian as a foundational thinker, almost entirely detached from the Greek tradition, is mistaken, and that, on the contrary, he can only be understood against the backdrop of Apollonian grammar.
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