SCHWARTZ, Ben (Benjamin). 23.6.1905 — 26.12.1981. U.S. IE Linguist and Anatolian Scholar. Studies at New York University: A.B. and M.A. Ph.D. 193? Columbia. At Colorado University (1937). Served in WW II and Korea. From 1956 Associate Professor of Classics, 1966-75 full Professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, then retired. Married Elizabeth (1905–1968), one son.
Publications: “Prakrit cia”, NIA 6, 1939, 420; articles on IE, Anatolian, etc.
– With J. A. Kerns: “Structural Types of the Indo-European Medio-Passive Endings, r and t Semes”, Language 13, 1937, 263-284; “The Laryngeal Hypothesis and Indo-Hittite, Indo-European Vocalism”, JAOS 60, 1940, 181-192; “Multiple Stem Conjugation: An Indo-Hittite Isogloss?”, Language 22, 1946, 57-67; “Initial Laryngeals in Tocharian?”, JAOS 83, 1963, 361f.; “Chronology of Athematics and Thematics in Proto-Indo-European”, Language44, 1968, 717-719; other articles.
– Diss. The Root and its Modification in Primitive Indo-European. 67 p. Language Diss. 40. Baltimore. 1947.
– With J. A. Kerns: A Sketch of the Indo-European Verb. 8+83 p. Ld. 1972.
– Hittite and Luvian studies; also wrote on Phaistos disk.
Sources: A Linguistic Happening in Memory of B.S. Bibl. de Cahiers de l’Inst. de Ling. de Louvain 42. Louvain-la-Neuve 1988 (with photo and bibliography); findagrave.com; Wikipedia briefly.
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