This was his 'springboard' into linguistics. It was Rex's high school Latin teacher, Dennis Thacker, who got him excited about ancient languages. Rex grew up in central Nebraska his parents and brothers still live in North Platte, NE. Right after graduating from OSU, Rex spent a year as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, then landed a job at UMass, Amherst, where he's been for the past 25 years. in Latin and an MA in Classical languages from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He was Brian Joseph's first advisee! Rex earned a B.A. His dissertation title was: "The Sabellian Language". Rex Wallace, Professor of Historical and Comparative Linguistics, in the Classics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduated from OSU in 1984. See below for more information or the igive icon I hope that we will be able to count on your commitment to the Department for this coming year. There is simply no way that we can be doing all that we do without the financial contributions of members of the Department and friends like you.
The department has also been busy planning for the upcoming conversion from quarters to semesters, which takes effect fall quarter, I mean semester, of 2012 (that's going to take some getting used to!).Īs you read about all the wonderful happenings, I hope you will consider showing us your support with a donation to the Department. Some of the highlights include: a symposium on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sociolinguistic Meaning, a Workshop on Surinamese Creoles, the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference, the 3rd Annual Buckeye Language Network Symposium, and a Conference on Linguistic Pedagogy. Another academic year has flown by! Once again, it has been a very eventful year and we hope that you'll enjoy learning about some of the events in this, the 4th issue of the department newsletter.
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