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Armenian Studies Program
Ingrid Peterson, Administrator
University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
Phone: 734.763.0622; Fax: 734.763.4918
email: irjp@umich.edu

New Armenian Lexical Dictionary Published
Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon Released by
Brill Academic Publishers

ANN ARBOR, MICH., Feb. 17, 2010- Linguist and Manoogian-Simone
Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow Hrach Martirosyan recently published
his comprehensive work Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian
Inherited Lexicon through Brill Academic Publishers. Mr. Martirosyan
who holds a PhD in Comparative Linguistics from Leiden University in
the Netherlands has published numerous papers on Armenian etymology
and dialectology and is a leading scholar in the field of Armenian
linguistics.
Martirosyan’s Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian
Inherited Lexicon integrates recent advancements in the critical study
of Indo-European linguistics. His work is also notable because it
focuses on the many dialects of Armenian while previous studies have
primarily focused on Classical Armenian. The Etymological Dictionary
of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon utilizes the lexical, phonetic, and
morphological material of Armenian dialects to further add to and
complicate understandings of Indo-European linguistics. It makes a
significant contribution to the study of Armenian within the field of
comparative linguistics
Brill Academic Publishers was founded 1683 in the Netherlands.
Today it has offices in Boston and Tokyo as well. It publishes over
100 scholarly journals and nearly 500 academic monographs a year.
Please see the attached link for more information regarding
Martirosyan’s Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited
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