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BUCK, CARL DARLING (1866– )

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BUCK, CARL See also:DARLING (1866– ) , See also:American philologist, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:October 1866, at Bucksport, See also:Maine. He graduated at Yale in 1886, was a See also:graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in See also:Athens (1887–1889) and in See also:Leipzig (1889–1892). In 1892 he became See also:professor of See also:Sanskrit and Indo-See also:European See also:comparative See also:philology in the University of See also:Chicago; but it is in the narrower See also:field of the See also:Italic dialects that his important See also:work lies, including Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache (1892), The Oscan-Umbrian Verb-See also:System (1895), and See also:Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (1904), as well as an excellent precis of the Italic See also:languages in See also:Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. He collaborated with W. G. See also:Hale (q.v.) in the preparation of A Latin Grammar (1903).

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