Brent Vine
Professor
Classical and Indo-European Linguistics, Latin Literature
Dodd 289B
310-825-1121
vine@humnet.ucla.edu

At the graduate level, Brent Vine regularly teaches a series of core linguistically-oriented courses: history  of Latin, Italic dialects (including Etruscan, Venetic, Messapic, Lepontic, and other ancient languages of Italy), Vulgar Latin, history of Greek, Greek dialects, Mycenaean Greek, and advanced courses in Indo-European linguistics. He also enjoys introducing undergraduates to these areas, through his course on English vocabulary, and via the undergraduate courses "Introduction to Classical Linguistics" and "Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics." Having begun his studies as a classicist, he remains a devotee of Classical literature, and continues to teach Latin language and literature at all levels. He is also a member of the UCLA Program in Indo‑European Studies (which he chaired from 1997-2004).

Professor Vine devotes much of his research to the history of the Greek and Latin languages and their development from Proto-Indo-European. He is particularly interested in historical phonology and in derivational morphology, as in his 1998 monograph “Aeolic orpeton and Deverbative *-etó- in Greek and Indo-European”, and in a series of recent studies involving the phonetics and phonology of the Indo-European "laryngeal" consonants and their development in Greek, and on “Thurneysen-Havet’s Law” in Latin and Italic. He has also worked extensively on Archaic Latin, as in his 1993 book “Studies in Archaic Latin Inscriptions”.