Georgios K. Giannakis (Ph.D. 1992, UCLA) studied Classics at the University of Ioannina (B.A. 1977), General Linguistics at the University of Chicago (1979-81) and Historical/Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (C.Phil. 1988, Ph.D. 1992). He is the author of the books: Studies in the syntax and the semantics of the reduplicated presents of Homeric Greek and Indo-European (Innsbruck 1997), The Indo-Europeans. Part I: Language and culture (Athens 2005), Historical linguistics and philology (Thessaloniki 2011), and numerous articles in historical...