John Colarusso
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John Colarusso is a linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. Since 1976, he has taught at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~linguistics/faculty/profile_colarusso.html|title = Linguistics & Languages Department | McMaster University}}
Colarusso has published more than sixty-five articles on linguistics, myths, politics, and the Caucasus; he has also authored three books, edited one, and is finishing two further books.http://johncolarusso.net/teaching/18-works {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Among other works, he has published grammar books of the Kabardian language.
Selected publications
- {{cite book|author1=John Colarusso|title=A Grammar of the Kabardian Language|date=1992|publisher=University of Calgary Press}}
- Colarusso, John (1997). "Phyletic Links between Proto-Indo-European and Proto–Northwest Caucasian". The Journal of Indo-European Studies (Chicago Linguistic Society) 25 (1–2): 119–151.
- {{cite book|author1=John Colarusso|title=Myths from the Caucasus: the Nart Sagas of the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs|date=2002|publisher=Princeton University Press}}
- Colarusso, John (2003). "Further Etymologies between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian". In Holisky, Dee Ann; Tuite, Kevin. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 41–60. {{ISBN|978-1588114617}}.
- Colarusso, John (2014). The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics): A Phonological Survey (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics) Kindle Edition
- {{cite book|author1=John Colarusso|title=A North West Caucasian Linguistics Reader|date=2015|publisher=LINCOM-Europa }}
- {{cite book |author1=John Colarusso |author2=Tamirlan Salbiev |title=Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XtghCwAAQBAJ |date=2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-8112-3}}
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Category:Linguists from Canada
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Category:Academic staff of McMaster University
Category:Linguists of Indo-European languages
Category:Linguists of Caucasian languages
Category:Linguists of Northwest Caucasian languages
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